Anyone who feels to much or radiates extremity gets very lonely.

S: But Chris, I think his embarrassment isn't in relation to you or me but to himself. What can he do?
C: I hate being thrown into such a physical state.
S: Isn't that experiencing life to the hilt?
C: No, it's just a dumb infatuation. I'm so ashamed.
S: But even if his silence hurts you, isn't that what attracted you to him? The fact that he was inaccessible. So, I think there is a contradiction there, at least nothing to feel ashamed of -.

Certain souls seem hard because they are capable of strong feelings, and they sometimes go to rather extreme lengths; their apparent unconcern and cruelty are but ways, known only to themselves, of feeling more strongly than others.

No woman is an island-ess. We fall in love in hope of anchoring ourselves to someone else, to keep from falling.

Desire is a beautiful flame

This good fellowship - camaraderie - usually occurring through the similarity of pursuits is unfortunately seldom super-added to love between the sexes, because men and women associate, not in their labors but in their pleasures merely. Where, however, happy circumstances permit its development, the compounded feeling proves itself to be the only love which is strong as death - that love which many waters cannot quench, nor the floods drown, besides which the passion usually called by the name is as evanescent as steam.