“If you live long enough and well enough to know love, its various permutations and shades, you will falter. You will break someone’s heart. Fairy tales don’t tell you that. Poetry doesn’t either.”
― The Last Romantics
― The Last Romantics
“love that doesn’t include honesty doesn’t deserve to be called love.”
― The Silent Patient
― The Silent Patient
“She had curiously thoughtful and attentive eyes; eyes that were very pretty and very good.”
― Great Expectations
― Great Expectations
“If you really love something, you never try to keep it the way it is forever. You have to let it be free to change.”
― City of Ashes
― City of Ashes
“About love. About how we often mistake love for fireworks—for drama and dysfunction. But real love is very quiet, very still. It’s boring, if seen from the perspective of high drama. Love is deep and calm—and constant. I imagine you do give Kathy love—in the true sense of the word.”
― The Silent Patient
― The Silent Patient
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