"Someone once told me that the power in all relationships lies with whoever cares less, and he was right. But power isn't happiness, and I think that maybe happiness comes from caring more about people rather than less. You've got to risk love Sandra! I didnt, and look at me. I'm a lonely ghost of a man. It does mean that you're never going to get hurt but the pain you feel will never compare to the regret that comes from walking away from love."

-ghosts of girlfriends past

Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being "in love" which any of us can convince ourselves we are.

Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Your mother and I had it, we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossom had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two.

-- Captain Corelli's Mandolin


Nobody thinks it will work, do they? No. You just described every great success story.

-- Say Anything, Lloyd Dobler and Diane Court