Alla

“There was a kind of cold-hearted selfishness on both sides, which mutually attracted them; and they sympathized with each other in an insipid propriety of demeanour, and a general want of understanding.”
― Jane Austen, Sense And Sensibility

“Let the warriors clamor after gods of blood and thunder; love is hard, harder than steel and thrice as cruel. It is as inexorable as the tides, and life and death alike follow in its wake.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Chosen

“A man always wants his friends to be a little in love with his beloved too.”
― Carlene Bauer, Frances and Bernard

“Any life-form advanced enough to travel light-years through interstellar space would have nothing to learn by probing the rectums of farmers in Kansas.”
― Dan Brown