“[He] fell right into the oldest conviction in the world-- that the girl you are in love with can't possibly be anything but true and honest.”
Source: East of Eden
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“This is how the girl who couldn't speak and the man who couldn't see fell in love.”
Source: The Blind Assassin

“It's the tragedy of loving, you can't love anything more than something you miss.”
Variant: It’s the tragedy of loving, you can’t love anything more than something you miss.
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005), p. 208