Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.

—Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

Our choices add up; each one influences others, and cumulatively a series of delightful short-term choices can leave us much worse off in the long run.

—Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

—Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

—Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

—David Viscott

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

—Blaise Pascal

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone—but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

—Bette Davis

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

—Anton Chekhov

To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.

—Anne-Sophie Swetchine