Joan Didion perfectly articulates longing in her memoir "The Year of Magical Thinking."
"A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty." --Joan Didion
"A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty." --Joan Didion
Oscar Wilde has men -- and women -- pegged in his play "A Woman of No Importance."
"Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about things. What we like is to be a man's last romance." --Oscar Wilde
"Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about things. What we like is to be a man's last romance." --Oscar Wilde
Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor married and divorced each other twice, but he wrote her scores of love letters until the end of his life.
"I might run from her for a thousand years and she is still my baby child. Our love is so furious that we burn each other out." --Richard Burton
"I might run from her for a thousand years and she is still my baby child. Our love is so furious that we burn each other out." --Richard Burton
Dammit if Nick Hornby doesn't know how to write about male screw ups and the women who love them (most notably in "High Fidelity").
"I am cowed -- by her intelligence, and her ferocity and the way she's always right. Or, at least, she's always right enough to shut me up." --Nick Hornby
"I am cowed -- by her intelligence, and her ferocity and the way she's always right. Or, at least, she's always right enough to shut me up." --Nick Hornby
Nora Ephron's autobiographical novel "Heartburn" was just one of her many brilliant stories on love and relationships.
"I married him against all evidence. I married him believing that marriage doesn't work, that love dies, that passion fades, and in so doing I became the kind of romantic only a cynic is truly capable of being." --Nora Ephron
"I married him against all evidence. I married him believing that marriage doesn't work, that love dies, that passion fades, and in so doing I became the kind of romantic only a cynic is truly capable of being." --Nora Ephron