"When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before they get around to it. You can’t make them change if they don’t want to, just like when they do want to, you can’t stop them."
— Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol In His Own Words
"All at once, we were madly, clumsily, shamelessly, agonizingly in love with each other."
— Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
"She didn’t understand that. “How can
anyone be afraid of love?” “How can they not?” His face was completely
aghast. “When you love someone… truly love them, friend or lover, you
lay your heart open to them. You give them a part of yourself that you
give to no one else, and you let them inside a part of you that only
they can hurt—you literally hand them the razor with a map of where to
cut deepest and most painfully on your heart and soul. And when they do
strike, it’s crippling—like having your heart carved out. It leaves you
naked and exposed, wondering what you did to make them want to hurt you
so badly when all you did was love them. What is so wrong with you that
no one can keep faith with you? That no one can love you? To have it
happen once is bad enough… but to have it repeated? Who in their right
mind would not be terrified of that?"
— Sherrilyn Kenyon, Devil May Cry
"I’m going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will become."
— Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit "Time does heal. It will do so whether you like it or not, and there’s nothing anyone can do about it. If you’re not careful, time will take away everything that ever hurt you, everything you have lost, and replace it with knowledge. It will convert your pain into experience… It will force you to move on and you will not have a choice in the matter."
— Charles Yu, How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
"The past could always be annihilated.
Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was
inevitable"
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
"Love is the kind of thing that’s
already happening by the time you notice it, that’s how it works, and no
matter how old you get, that doesn’t change. Except that you can break
it up into two entirely distinct types — love where there’s an end in
sight and love where there isn’t."
— Banana Yoshimoto, Goodbye Tsugumi
"When two people meet and fall in
love, there’s a sudden rush of magic. Magic is just naturally present
then. We tend to feed on that gratuitous magic without striving to make
any more. One day we wake up and find that the magic is gone. We hustle
to get it back, but by then it’s usually too late, we’ve used it up.
What we have to do is work like hell at making additional magic right
from the start. It’s hard work, but if we can remember to do it, we
greatly improve our chances of making love stay."
— Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker
"We have this idea that love is
supposed to last forever. But love isn’t like that. It’s a free-flowing
energy that comes and goes when it pleases. Sometimes, it stays for
life; other times it stays for a second, a day, a month or a year. So
don’t fear love when it comes simply because it makes you vulnerable.
But don’t be surprised when it leaves either. Just be glad you had the
opportunity to experience it."
— Neil Strauss
"Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another!"
— Jane Austen, Emma ps: dont fall too hard.
