It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.

She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.

—W. Somerset Maugham

We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.

—W. Somerset Maugham

Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

—W. Somerset Maugham

Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.

—W. Somerset Maugham

Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.

—W. Somerset Maugham

We were already separated, that was official, but there was still a window of hope left open that perhaps someday we could give things another try.

—Elizabeth Gilbert in Love

We have attempted to separate the spiritual and the erotic, thereby reducing the spiritual to a world of flattened affect, a world of the ascetic who aspires to feel nothing.

—Audre Lorde

God I loved that man. Love flooded every cell in my body and I felt physically ill at the thought of never seeing him again.

—Courtney Cole in Every Last Kiss