Best 4 quotes in «the history of love quotes» category

All these years Litvinoff had imagined he was so much like his friend. He’d prided himself on what he considered their similarities. But the truth was that he was no more like the man fighting a fever in bed ten feet away than he was like the cat that had just slunk off: they were different species.

If you don't know what it feels like to have someone you love put a hand below your bottom rib for the first time, what chance is there for love?

I want to say somewhere: I’ve tried to be forgiving. And yet. There were times in my life, whole years, when anger got the better of me. Ugliness turned me inside out. There was a curtain of satisfaction in bitterness. I courted it. It was standing outside, and I invited it in. I scowled at the world. And the world scowled back. We were locked in a stare of mutual disgust.

She abandoned the garden, and the mums and asters that had trusted her to see them through to the first frost hung their waterlogged heads.