| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 3c9c52a | It is better to lock up your heart with a merciless padlock, than to fall in love with someone who doesn't know what they mean to you. | courage affair breakdown celibacy celibate chaste enstrangement falling-in-love-with-a-beast final-decision lock-up love-affair mercilless michael-bassey-johnson padlock key breakup apart divorce parting single falling-in-love end cheating sea | Michael Bassey Johnson | |
| c5172d3 | Concert pianists get to be quite chummy with dead composers. They can't help it. Classical music isn't just . It's a personal diary. An uncensored confession in the dead of night. A baring of the soul. Take a modern example. Florence and the Machine? In the song 'Cosmic Love,' she catalogs the way in which the world has gone dark, distorting her, when she, a rather intense young woman, was left bereft by a love affair. 'The stars, the moon, they have all been blown out. | music classical-music cosmic-love florence-and-the-machine florence-welch night-film love-affair lyrics confession thriller mystery diary horror suspense | Marisha Pessl | |
| 8371c9d | Jehanne said that it would always be like this. That I would always be young and beautiful in her memory, and she in mine. That I would never grow resentful, never be tempted to betray her. That she would never grow restless and fickle, and see to replace me. So you see, not exactly the sentiments of a great and terrible love affair. | love-affair memory | Jacqueline Carey |