“ Human beings had two basic orientations: HAVING and BEINGHAVING: seeks to acquire, posses things even peopleBEING: focuses on the experience; exchanging, engaging, sharing with other people Erich Fromm
“ No one but another painter could know the delicacy required to balance the complexities, to keep reality at bay in order to remain in the innermost center of his work. Susan Vreeland
“ He did not care if she was heartless, vicious and vulgar, stupid and grasping, he loved her. He would rather have misery with one than happiness with the other. W. Somerset Maugham
“ How we rolled up the carpet so we could dance, and the days were bright red, and every time we kissed there was anotherappleto slice into pieces.Look at the light through the windowpane. That means it… Richard Siken
“ The beauty of love is that it demands to be two sided, otherwise its nothing but another obsession. Musawir Masood
“ Some men are like that - they get a woman in their mind, and that's that. They will destroy themselves and everyone else over her; they will let everything else fall apart. Paul Elwork
“ I wanted it for how it made me feel, regardless of how little it cared for me. Do whatever you want -- just give me the bliss. C.M. McKenna
“ Never in my life had I been more frustrated. Go figure it wouldn't be with a human but a freaking alien. At least I now knew that the male species were asses no matter what planet they hailed from. Jennifer L. Armentrout
“ It was as if I were an oyster and somebody forced a grain of sand into my shell -- a grain of sand that I didn't know was there and didn't particularly welcome. Then a pearl started forming around the… Truman Capote
“ What big eyes you have. Eyes of an incomparable luminosity, the numinous phosphorescence of the eyes of lycanthropes. The gelid green of your eyes fixes my reflective face; It is a preservative, like… Angela Carter
“ The first time I saw you, my heart fell. The second time I saw you, my heart fell. The third time fourth time fifth time and every time since, my heart has fallen.I stared at her.You are the most beau… James Frey
“ I needed them, sure, and we can all argue about the moment when the balance tipped and I needed them so much that I would hurt. But you can't pretend they didn't need me too, each in his or her way. T… Claire Messud
“ One hasn't become a writer until one has distilled writing intoa habit, and that habit has been forced into an obsession.Writing has to be an obsession. It has to be something as organic,physiological… Niyi Osundare
“ I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary. Margaret Atwood
“ When two people love each other as we do, no one can come between them, no one, I said, amazed at the words I was uttering without preparation. Lovers like us, because they know that nothing can destr… Orhan Pamuk
“ The truth was...he was in love with her. Totally over-the-line, no-going-back, not-even-dead-would-he-part kind of shit. J.R. Ward
