“He can't really love anyone, you know, and in the end such people are always alone, no matter how much other people once loved them.”

— Elizabeth Kostova, book The Swan Thieves

Source: The Swan Thieves

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American writer 1964

Natsuki Takaya (1973) Manga artist

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“I think you realize how much you need to have people that you love. It’s not as much about them loving you – it’s about you needing to love people.”

Chadwick Boseman (1976–2020) American actor

“I know, if anyone does — all research workers know — how much is missed that really matters because reports have to be written in officialese. They have to be, because a lot of us can't take anything seriously unless you make it dull for them.”

Edmund Clerihew Bentley book Trent's Own Case

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“If you can't love two people at once, there's something wrong with you.”

Henry Hill (1943–2012) Mobster

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“No matter how many people care about you, she thought, if you can't be open with them about who you truly are, you're still alone.”

Diane Chamberlain (1950) American writer

Source: The Silent Sister

“He doesn’t know how one proceeds under the circumstances, except with the certainty, pressed to the heart like a keepsake of love, that in the end nothing really matters.”

Michael Chabon (1963) Novelist, short story writer, essayist

Source: The Yiddish Policemen’s Union (2007), Chapter 23

“People always say that, when you love someone, nothing in the world matters. But that's not true, is it? You know, and I know, that when you love someone, everything in the world matters a little bit more.”

Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care

Source: Handle with Care

“You know, all that really matters is that the people you love are happy and healthy. Everything else is just sprinkles on the sundae.”

Paul Walker (1973–2013) American actor

Flaunt Magazine, July 2001.

“There are people who love birds so much they free them. There are others who love them so much they cage them.”

Gene Wolfe (1931–2019) American science fiction and fantasy writer

Volume 3, Ch. 4
Fiction, The Book of the Long Sun (1993–1996)

“People Die…
Beauty Fades…
Love Changes…
And You Will Always Be Alone”

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

Source: Night World, No. 3

“He can't really love anyone, you know, and in the end such people are always alone, no matter how much other people once loved them.”

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