"Because, if you could love someone, and keep loving them, without being loved back . . . then that love had to be real. It hurt too much to be anything else."

"Dream lover: Marcello Mastroianni at the MFA" by Chris Fujiwara in Boston Phoenix"

"I just felt like God picked me up in his arms , 'Johnnie Ray, I love you', and kissed me. I'm very humble a…"

"They had been in love, desperately in love, but the universe cared nothing for the vicissitudes of the huma…"

"It isn't about love," Vee said. "It's about fun."

"Benefits conferred awaken love in some minds, as surely as benefits received in others."

"For me the most interesting characters are outwardly static, but inwardly charged by an overriding passion."