"When you need to be loved, you take love wherever you can find it. When you are desperate to be loved, feel love, know love, you seek out what you think love should look like. When you find love, or what you think love is, you will lie, kill, and steal to keep it. But learning about real love comes from within. It cannot be given. It cannot be taken away. It grows from your ability to re-create within yourself, the essence of loving experiences you have had in your life."

"As to the First, methought I had some feeling in the Passion of Christ, but yet I desired more by the grace…"

"We're all capable if we have faith and passion."

"One does not fall "in" or "out" of love. One grows in love."

"There is no inherent irreconcilability between love and coercion, but rather the reverse; under some circum…"

"Does she know you love her?" "Of course." I paused. The obstacle seemed unreal to me. "If you love her," I …"

"I tried my hand at a novel around college romance, but soon figured out I was no good at it."