“Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.”

“we had made love without love, half-dressed most of the time and always in the dark so we could imagine ourselves as better than we were.”

“How we love others is affected by how we love ourselves, and for the first time in a long time, I was whole.”

“No matter how brilliantly an idea is stated, we will not really be moved unless we have already half thought of it ourselves.”

“Crassness of youth
Concluding only half of the truth,
Exuding only one small percent
Of what I surely felt for you.

And then one morning
That brought a day so gently
We set apart
Things of the heart
And lost love long ago.”

“We are all the pieces of what we remember. We hold in ourselves the hopes and fears of those who love us. As long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss.”

“But we, who name ourselves its sovereigns, we,
Half dust, half deity, alike unfit
To sink or soar.”

“Half of life is lost in charming others.
The other half is lost in going through anxieties caused by others.
Leave this play. You have played enough.”

“And with the morn those angel faces smile
Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.”

“I think now that fate is half shaped by expectation, half by inattention. But somehow, when you lose something you love, faith takes over. You have to pay attention to what you lost. You have to undo the expectation.”