When you decide to hit rock bottom, humiliation is part of the deal.

They were now both ready, not to begin from scratch, but to continue with a love that had survived for thirteen years in hibernation. They were no longer travellers without baggage. They were no longer twenty. They'd both been around the block a bit and had suffered without the other. They'd both lost their way without the other. Each had tried to find love with other people. But all that was now finished.

She needs someone who will be everything for her: her friend, her boyfriend, her confidant, her lover and sometimes even her enemy.

When it comes to books and friends, it is best to have only a few but all good ones.

Why was love such an addictive drug? Why did loving someone cause such suffering?

It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. What scares you, is not your weaknesses, but your strengths.

As long as you remember the person who loved you, and whom you still love, then you're making love endure.