Then he almost but didnt say the two sentence hed been meaning to say for years part of me is made of glass and also I love you

A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself -- to laugh with me but never at me to cry with me but never because of me to love life to love himself to love being loved. Such a relationship is based upon freedom and can never grow in a jealous heart

But youve slipped under my skin invaded my blood and seized my heart.

With her Florentino Ariza learned what he had already experienced many times without realizing it that one can be in love with several people at the same time feel the same sorrow with each and not betray any of them. Alone in the midst of the crowd on the pier he said to himself in a flash of anger My heart has more rooms than a whorehouse.

Two separate beings in different circumstances face to face in freedom and seeking justification of their existence through one another will always live an adventure full of risk and promise. p. 248

A joyful heart is the normal result of a heart burning with love. She gives most who gives with joy.

Love is when he is hungry and you feed him. Love is knowing when he is hungry.

It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving caring human being.

Love was that way. You could not render it in black or white. It always came down to the strange blended shades of grey.

Emotion without reason lets people walk all over you reason without emotion is a mask for cruelty.