“You might ask if I loved Jonathan for his beauty, and I would answer: that is a pointless question, for his great, uncommon beauty was an irreducible part of the whole. It gave him his quiet confidence--and his easy, disarming… — Alma Katsu Copy Share Image
“There is not only one measure of beauty, Lanore. Everyone adores the red rose, and yet it is a common sort of beauty. You are like a golden rose, a rare bloom but no less lovely.” — Alma Katsu Copy Share Image
And it´s so different for a lot of people I´ve known. One partner doesn´t love the other enough to stop drinking, or gambling, or… — Alma Katsu Copy Share Image
“We were arrogant and naive, thinking we knew what we felt then was love. Love can be a cheap emotion, lightly given, thought it didn´t seem so to me at the time. Looking back, I know we were only filling in the holes in our soles, the way the tide rushes sand to fill in the crevices of a rocky… — Alma Katsu Copy Share
“I´ve always wanted him to love me the way I loved him. He did love me, I know he did. Just not the way I wanted him to. "And it´s so different for a lot of people I´ve known. One partner doesn´t love the other enough to stop drinking, or gambling, or running around with other women. One is the… — Alma Katsu Copy Share
“Have you ever been in love with someone so badly that you’d do anything for them? That no matter what you want, you want… — Alma Katsu Copy Share Image
I’d always secretly believed that a love as fierce and true as mine would be rewarded in the end, and now I was being… — Alma Katsu Copy Share Image
“She was telling me that I had a life of disappointment before me if I continued to love him as I did. A love… — Alma Katsu Copy Share Image
“You might ask if I loved Jonathan for his beauty, and I would answer: that is a pointless question, for his great, uncommon beauty… — Alma Katsu Copy Share Image
“A man´s desire is a powerful thing. It can reduce a strong man to nothing. When he sees a woman who fascinates him, he… — Alma Katsu Copy Share Image
“It was like being in love with the sun: brilliant and intoxicating to be near, but impossible to keep to oneself.” — Alma Katsu Copy Share Image
“There is not only one measure of beauty, Lanore. Everyone adores the red rose, and yet it is a common sort of beauty. You… — Alma Katsu Copy Share Image
Men hid behind religion to keep others from seeing how frightened they were, how inept. — Alma Katsu Copy Share Image
