"The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side."
— Scott Westerfeld

"You're the one who is weak. You will never know love or friendship. And I feel sorry for you."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix)

"To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3-parts dead."
— Bertrand Russell

"In secret we met -
In silence I grieve,
That thy heart could forget,
Thy spirit deceive.
If I should meet thee
After long years,
How should I greet thee? -
With silence and tears"
— George Gordon Byron

"After a battle lasting many ages,
The Devil won,
And said to God
(who had been his Maker):
'Lord,
We are about to witness the unmaking of Creation
By my hand.
I would not wish you
to think me cruel,
So I beg you, take three things
From this world before I destroy it.
Three things, and then the rest will be
wiped away.'

God thought for a little time.
And at last He said:
'No, there is nothing.'
The Devil was surprised.
'Not even you, Lord?' he said.
And God said:
'No. Not even me.'"
— Clive Barker (Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War)

"If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled?"
— Jodi Picoult (Nineteen Minutes)

"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference."
— Elie Wiesel

"Love and hate have only one thing in common, they both hurt""
— Rowan Pruitt

"Oh love and hate are two sides of the same blade"
— Jacqueline Carey (Kushiel's Dart)

"No one is fool enough to choose war instead of peace - in peace sons bury fathers, but in war fathers bury sons."
— Herodotus

"There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out
but I'm too tough for him,
I say, stay in there, I'm not going to let anybody see you."
— Charles Bukowski

"I went to the worst of bars
hoping to get killed but all I could do was to get drunk again.
"
— Charles Bukowski

"if you get married they think you're
finished
and if you are without a woman they think you're
incomplete."
— Charles Bukowski

"Life's as kind as you let it be."
— Charles Bukowski (Hot Water Music)

"...in that drunken place
you would
like to hand your heart to her
and say
touch it
but then
give it back."
— Charles Bukowski (The People Look Like Flowers At Last: New Poems)

"we had such tremendous fun
and much agony together
for some years"
— Charles Bukowski (The People Look Like Flowers At Last: New Poems)

"I said goodbye again
sucking up all that was left of her into the
little that was left of
me. I said, 'don't look for me again. fuck it.
we are all lost. goodbye, goodbye.'"
— Charles Bukowski (The People Look Like Flowers At Last: New Poems)

"it was like any other
relationship, there was
jealousy on both sides,
there were split-ups and
reconciliations.
there were also fragmented moments of
great peace and beauty.

I often tried to get away from her and
she tied to get away from me
but it was difficult:
Cupid, in his strange way, was really
there.


"
— Charles Bukowski (The People Look Like Flowers At Last: New Poems)

"I'm going, she said. I love you but you're
crazy, you're doomed."
— Charles Bukowski (Love Is a Dog from Hell: Poems, 1974-1977)

"stay with the beer.

beer is continuous blood.

a continuous lover."
— Charles Bukowski (Love Is a Dog from Hell: Poems, 1974-1977)

"I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine."
— Jane Austen

"Foolishness is more than being stupid, that deadly combination of arrogance and ignorance."
— Paul David Tripp (Instruments in the Redeemer's Hands: People in Need of Change Helping People in Need of Change)

"Most hatred is based on fear, one way or another. Yeah. I wrapped myself in anger, with a dash of hate, and at the bottom of it all was an icy center of pure terror."
— Laurell K. Hamilton (Guilty Pleasures)

"Death should take me while I am in the mood."
— Nathaniel Hawthorne (The Blithedale Romance)

"My only love sprung from my only hate!
Too early seen unknown, and known too late!
Prodigious birth of love it is to me,
That I must love a loathed enemy."
— William Shakespeare

"I will tell you what Jeanne was like. She was like a piano in a country where everyone has had their hands cut off."
— Angela Carter

"When love is not madness it is not love."
— Pedro Calderón de la Barca

"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea."
— Robert A. Heinlein

"Nothing that’s worthwhile is ever easy. Remember that."
— Nicholas Sparks (Message in a Bottle)

"'I don't want to lose you.' His voice almost a whisper. Seeing his haggard expression, she took his hand and squeezed it, then reluctantly let it go. She could feel the tears again, and she fought them back. 'But you don't want to keep me, either, do you?' To that, he had no response."
— Nicholas Sparks (The Rescue)

"It comes out so quietly that I have to ask her to repeat it: “It’s just that I thought maybe you were married to me.”"
— Audrey Niffenegger (The Time Traveler's Wife)

"I go to sleep alone, and wake up alone. I take walks, I work until I'm tired. I watch the wind play with the trash that's been under the snow all winter. Everything seems simple until you think about it. Why is love intensified by abscence? "
— Audrey Niffenegger

"But you know: you know that if I could have stayed, if I could have gone on, that I would have clutched every second: whatever it was, this death, you know that it came and took me, like a child carried away by goblins."
— Audrey Niffenegger (The Time Traveler's Wife)

"I won't ever leave you, even though you're always leaving me."
— Audrey Niffenegger (The Time Traveler's Wife)

"Maybe I'm dreaming you. Maybe you're dreaming me; maybe we only exist in each other's dreams and every morning when we wake up we forget all about each other."
— Audrey Niffenegger (The Time Traveler's Wife)

""He made the boxes because he was lonely. He didn't have anyone to love, and he made the boxes so he could love them, and so people would know that he existed, and because birds are free and the boxes are hiding places for the birds so they will feel safe, and he wanted to be free and be safe. The boxes are for him so he can be a bird.""
— Audrey Niffenegger (The Time Traveler's Wife)

"Is it better to be extremely happy for a short time, even if you lose it, than to be just ok for your whole life?"
— Audrey Niffenegger (The Time Traveler's Wife)

"I'm afraid of losing you."
Clare smiles. "How could you lose me? I'm not going anywhere."
"I worry that you will get tired of putting up with my undependableness and you will leave me."
"But I never want to leave you."
Clare puts her sketchbook aside. I sit up. "I won't ever leave you," she says. "Even though you're always leaving me."
"But I never want to leave you."
— Audrey Niffenegger (The Time Traveler's Wife)

"Sometimes I'm happy when he's gone, but I'm always happy when he returns. -Clare"
— Audrey Niffenegger (The Time Traveler's Wife)

""But don't you think that it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?" "
— Audrey Niffenegger (The Time Traveler's Wife)

"Better never to have met you in my dream than to wake and reach for hands that are not there."
— Otomo No Yakamochi

"'In that house, you will find my heart. You must break in, Henri, and get it back for me.'
Was she mad? We had been talking figuratively. Her heart was in her body like mine. I tried to explain this to her, but she took my hand and put it against her chest.
'Feel for yourself.'"
— Jeanette Winterson (The Passion)

""Was it hard?" I ask.
"Letting go?"

"Not as hard as holding on to something that wasn't real.""
— Lisa Schroeder

"The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls were connected. Maybe they always have and will be. Maybe we've lived a thousand lives before this one and in each of them we've found each other. And maybe each time, we've been forced apart for the same reasons. That means that this goodbye is both goodbye for the past ten thousand years and a prelude to what will come.
When i look at you, i see your charm and your gentleness and know they hve grown stronger with every life you have lived. And i know i have spent every life before this one searching for you. not someone like you, but you, for your soul and mine must always come together. And then, for some reason neither of us understands we were forced to to say goodbye.
I would love to tell you that everything will work out for us, And i promise to do all i can to make sure it does. But if we never meet gin and this is truly goodbye, I know we will see each other again in another life. We will find each other again and maybe the satrs will have changed, and we will not only love each other in that time but for all the times we had before."
— Nicholas Sparks

"And for the briefest instant, it almost feels like we're together again."
— Nicholas Sparks (Dear John)

"What it's like to be a parent: It's one of the hardest things you'll ever do but in exchange it teaches you the meaning of unconditional love. "
— Nicholas Sparks (The Wedding)

"If you like her, if she makes you happy, and if you feel like you know her---then don't let her go."
— Nicholas Sparks (Message in a Bottle)

"If you discovered something that made you tighten inside, you had better try to learn more about it."
— Nicholas Sparks (Message in a Bottle)

"And then I feel as if I'm witnessing a miracle, as ever so slowly she raises her face towards the moon. I watch her drink in the sight, sensing the flood of memories she's unleashed and wanting nothing more than to let her know I'm here. But instead I stay where I am and stare up at the moon as well. And for the briefest instant, it almost feels like we're together again."
— Nicholas Sparks (Dear John)

""She was my dream. She made me who I am, and holding her in my arms was more natural to me than my own heartbeat. I think about her all the time. Even now, when I'm sitting here, I think about her. There could never have been another.""
— Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook)