“We choose our lovers for their flaws, you know," Mel said. "People would be bored shitless if they had to love only the good in someone they care about.”

“Still, that's the point of love; you love someone despite their flaws.”

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

“Not only are love and hate such closely related emotions, but it's a lot easier to hate someone you've cared about than someone you never have.”

““We all make mistakes,” the cab said piously.
“But some of us,” Barney said, “make fatal ones.” First about our loved ones, our wife and children, and then about our employer, he said to himself.
The cab hummed on.
And then, he said to himself, we make one last one. About our whole life, summing it all up. Whether to take a job with Eldritch or go into the service. And whichever we choose we can know this:
It was the wrong alternative.”

“I'm in love," he said hoarsely. "With someone else. That's why."

Qhuinn (Lover Unleashed)”

“You gotta know someone cares about you, or you just give up.”

“You know what the worst thing I can imagine is? Simon had said. Not trusting someone I love.”

“Thinking about morality. If you had to choose, would you save one baby or five old people? What if the baby had a Hitler moustache?”

“A great sorrow, and one that I am only beginning to understand: we don’t get to choose our own hearts. We can’t make ourselves want what’s good for us or what’s good for other people. We don’t get to choose the people we are.”