The saddest thing about love, Joe, is that not only the love cannot last forever, but even the heartbreak is soon forgotten.

The next time you try to seduce anyone, don't do it with talk, with words. Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.

You are suffering from disappointment. But this will pass away. The saddest thing about love, Joe, is that not only the love cannot last forever, but even the heartbreak is soon forgotten.

She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love. Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.

You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.

Perhaps they were right in putting love into books, . . . Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.