“What if you were really meant to be with someone? But you kept messing about and having the Horn and so on and you lost them.”

“Once you have met someone, you never really forget them.”

“But I also meant that loving someone really opening your heart to them is just asking to have your heart smashed and handed back to you in little pieces.”

“This thing about looking for someone less different… It only really worked, he realized, if you were convinced that being you wasn't so bad in the first place.”

“If you complain to someone, you assume that it's someone who really cares about you.”

“I want to talk about love. Loving someone…I mean really loving someone…means you are willing to admit that the person you love is not what you first fell in love with, not the image you first had; and you must be able to like them still for being as close to that image as they are, and avoid disliking them for being so far away.”

“When you feel someone else's pain and joy as powerfully as if it were your own, then you know you really loved them.”

“It’s scary telling someone you care about, someone you love who you really are.”

“I hate the way, once you start to know someone, care about them, their behavior can distress you, even when it's unreasonable and not your fault, even if you were really trying to be careful, tactful.”

“If you really wanted to mess me up, you should have got to me earlier.”