“A Platonic friendship is perhaps only possible when one or other of the Platonists is in love with a third person.”

“Russian ladies, for the most part, cherish only Platonic love, without mingling any thought of matrimony with it; and Platonic love is exceedingly embarrassing.”

“If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.”

“Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.”

“And those who only know the non-platonic love have no need to talk of tragedy. In such love there can be no sort of tragedy.”

“She recognized that that is how friendships begin: one person reveals a moment of strangeness, and the other person decides just to listen and not exploit it.”

“It is love and friendship, the sanctity and celebration of our relationships, that not only support a good life, but create one. Through friendships, we spark and inspire one another's ambitions.”

“There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.”

“Their friendship was only one aspect of their lives but it seemed to give meaning to all the others.”

“Perhaps I write for no one. Perhaps for the same person children are writing for when they scrawl their names in the snow.”