“After all, it was never Darnay he quoted, only Sydney, drunk and wrecked and dissipated. Sydney, who died for love.”

“… after all, who isn't a survivor from the wreck of childhood?”

“The first one is always the hardest," he said.
"The first?"
"The first one you love who dies," he said. "It gets easier, after.”

“He who loves the law dies either mad or poor.”

“After all, a woman who doesn't love cats is never going to be make a man happy.”

“Die before the one whom you love; to live after he dies is to live a worthless life in this world.”

“Love never dies.”

“People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations”

“Yep, my daddy was an undependable drunk. But he'd never missed any of my organized games, concerts, plays, or picnics. He may not have loved me perfectly, but he loved me as well as he could. (189)”

“All love is expansion, all selfishness is contraction. Love is therefore the only law of life. He who loves lives, he who is selfish is dying. Therefore love for love's sake, because it is the only law of life, just as you breathe to live.”