We see in others what we want and what we fear.

But say you do find the right people - how do you love them without smothering them?...How do you not suffocate them with all the love you've built up in their absence?

In the end I didn't know who I was crying for, but it was something my body wanted to do, as though trying to digest grief.

You were unsure which pain is worse -- the shock of what happened or the ache for what never will.

There are some lies that, under the right circumstances, are the only truth

Could it be that first love was the only true love? And that after those first fires had been doused or burned out, men and women chose whom they would love based on worldly needs, and then reenacted the rituals and feelings of that first pure experience - nursed the flames that once burned of their own accord

Love between strangers takes only a few seconds and can last a whole life.