When you love someone more than he loves you, you'll do anything to switch the scales. You dress the way you think he'd like you to dress. You pick up his favorite figures of expression. You tell yourself that if you re-create yourself in his image, then he'll crave you in the same way you crave him.
Even in the most perfect love one person loves less profoundly than the other.
People want to believe that every marriage is perfect balance but it isn't. One person always loves more deeply than the other
There is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage: a marriage in which there is love, but on one side only.
What nobody seems to understand is that love can only be one-sided, that no other love exists, that in any other form it is not love. If it involves less than total giving, it is not love. It is impotent; for the moment it is nothing.
How should we like it were stars to burn With a passion for us we could not return? If equal affection cannot be, Let the more loving one be me.
A Platonic friendship is perhaps only possible when one or other of the Platonists is in love with a third person.
