The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.

I have no regrets. I will never regret loving someone because the feeling of love for five minutes is greater than an eternity of hurt.

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notions of time; effaces all memory of beginning, all fear of an end.