"To love at all is to be..." - Quote by C S Lewis

“If, as I can't help suspecting, the dead also feel the pains of separation (and this may be one of their purgatorial sufferings), then for both lovers, and for all pairs of lovers without exception, bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love.”

“Before we can be cured we must want to be cured. Those who really wish for help will get it; but for many modern people even the wish is difficult.”

“We read to know we are not alone.”

“Love is nothing other than finding the truth.”

“Where there is love, there is no imposition.”

“People don't love each other at our age, Marthe—they please each other, that's all. Later on, when you're old and impotent, you can love someone. At our age, you just think you do. That's all it is.”

“I feel I should try to reveal. When you hit it right, you produce an emotional response in the listener that can be cathartic. When you're wrong, you're soppy, sentimental.”

“If I ever asked you about love, you'd probably quote me a sonnet. But you've never looked a woman and been totally vulnerable.”

“Don't treat your heart like an action figure wrapped in plastic and never used. And don't try to give me that nerd argument that your heart is a 'Batman' with a limited-edition silver bat-erang and therefore if it stays in its original packing it increases in value.”