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“The actuality that the heart does not want to feel, doesn't negate the certitude that it once felt and will still feel.”

“And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”

“Love can be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion.”

“Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.”

“'Brokeback Mountain' is a sad love story about two people who can't be together, and the reason that they can't be together is because being gay is a stigmatized thing. It would be interesting to have the same movie in which the two guys weren't in the closet and there was no shame about them being gay and they couldn't be together for other reasons. I still feel like we're a long way from that happening.”

“Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.”

“Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.”

“I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken - and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.”

“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”

“True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.”

“Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.”

“The course of true love never did run smooth.”

“For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.”

“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.”