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What are man and woman if not members of two very different and warring tribes? Yet decade after decade, century after century, they attempt in marriage to reconcile and forge a union. Why? I don't know. Biological imperative? Divine law? Or just a desire to connect to that mysterious other? In any case, it's always struck me as a hopeful thing.

—From the TV show Northern Exposure

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I was festering about something she hadn't done, or that she'd done, or that in my opinion she should have done, or that she might do if I didn't say something. I also knew we had made it through a day and I probably didn't need to say anything to fuck that up. Let me put it this way: There was absolutely no reason for me to say anything other than to start a fight. I was just one of those sick people who doesn't know if someone loves them unless the other person is crying.

—Marc Maron

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Being in love, he often felt, was like having a bird caught in his hair.

—Laurie Colwin

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Four years later, it's so hard for me to tap into the well of desperate emotion the relationship unleashed in me. I'd spent my entire life getting my kicks from various esoteric hobbies . . . and quality time with my nuclear family, but here he was. My only pleasure. I told him I hoped we would die at the same time in the mouth of a lion.

—Lena Dunham

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You must not try to make love definite. It is the divine accident of life. If you try to be definite and sure about it and to live beneath the trees, where soft night winds blow, the long hot day of disappointment comes swiftly and the gritty dust from passing wagons gathers upon lips inflamed and made tender by kisses.

—Sherwood Anderson

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Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages.

—Marcel Proust

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I don't have a love life. I have a like life.

—Lorrie Moore

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Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

—Bertrand Russell

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This was the boy I loved. A little bit messy. A little bit ruined. A beautiful disaster. Just like me.

—Michelle Hodkin

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When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You know that your name is safe in their mouth.

—Billy, age four From Breathing Together, edited by Richard Kehl

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You know those people you could go years without seeing and when you finally get together it felt like no time had passed? Hold on to those people.

—Brittainy C. Cherry in Loving Mr. Daniels

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She loved the guy. She did it for him. She would've done anything for him. Some people are like that. Some loves are like that. Most loves are like that, from what I can see. Your heart starts to feel like an overcrowded lifeboat. You throw your pride out to keep it afloat, and your self-respect and your independence. After a while you start throwing people out—your friends, everyone you used to know. And it's still not enough. The lifeboat is still sinking, and you know it's going to take you down with it. I've seen that happen to a lot of people here. I think that's why I'm sick of love.

—Gregory David Roberts in Shantaram

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My heart is truly broken. And I know that even if it mends, it will look different, feel different, beat differently.

—Taylor Jenkins Reid in After I Do

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You learn a lot when you know no one else is going to do things for you.

—Megan Crewe in The Way We Fall

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The purpose of life is a life of purpose.

—Robert Byrne

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