Love is a strange concept. That the very sight of someone, the very mention of their name, can cause an intense chemical reaction inside you is crazy.

We may only ever have one great, passionate love, but sometimes it's best to leave that kind of love in the past. A love like that can't last forever.

—Cassia Leo in The Way We Fall

Don't tell me I don't know you when I've spent the last three years trying to forget you.

—Cassia Leo in Black Box

It's funny that when the one person you live for is ripped out of your life you can still find a way to convince yourself it's for the best and that you will eventually get over it.

What a joke.

—Cassia Leo in Pieces of You

You don't stop loving someone just because they've hurt you. Yes, what you did hurt me, but I gain nothing if I stay angry with you. But I might gain everything by forgiving you.

—Cassia Leo in Pieces of You

It's not really the love that I envy, it's the trust. The feeling that no matter how bad you screw up, there is always someone who will accept you and love you for who you are; not because they have to, just because they can't not love you.

—Cassia Leo in Abandon

We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.

—Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Love has a tide!

—Helen Hunt Jackson

The giving of love is an education in itself.

—Eleanor Roosevelt

To say 'I love you' one must first be able to say the 'I.

—Ayn Rand