Oh, Darling

“Cruelty is the opposite of love,’ said Patrick, ‘not just some inarticulate version of it.”
― Edward St. Aubyn, The Patrick Melrose Novels

“But that's what the English mean, isn't it, when they say, "He was very philosophical about it"? They mean that someone stopped thinking about something.”
― Edward St. Aubyn, Never Mind

“He knew no more of love, he told himself, than he did of tears, but he enjoyed sitting there. And he enjoyed the conversation which seemed to him on the verge of taking an even more sprightly turn. In other words, he knew all there was to know about love, that it’s the delight of being in the presence of the loved one.”
― Thomas Savage, The Power of the Dog

“It's the ones who never loved you enough that come to you when you can't sleep. You always wonder what the future might have held for you and you'll never know. Maybe you almost don't want to know.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six