The Secret History, margin note 7, Chapter 5
"Deprendi miserum est."
– In the beginning of Chapter 5, when Francis came home after his rendezvous with Bunny to discover Henry in the middle of brainwashing Richard, Henry tried to console his nervous friend in Latin by saying:
"Deprendi miserum est, he said. To my surprise Francis laughed, a humorless little snort."
Here,
"My heart belongs only to you. My heart is open only to you. It is closed to every woman except you. You are the only thing for me. Just you. The definition of true love is the love I feel for you."
- Jack Brighty Love's Crescent Moon
...Hence it doesn't matter that you feel continuously reduced to silence, that your own discourse seems to you smothered beneath the monstrous discourse of the amorous subject: in 
Teorema the "other" does not speak, but he inscribes something within each of those who desire him—he performs what the mathematicians call a catastrophe (the disturbance of one system by another): it is true that this mute figure is an angel.
A Lover's Discourse, 
Roland Barthes
Ingmar Bergman
"I understand, all right. The hopeless dream of being - not seeming, but being. At every waking moment, alert. The gulf between what you are with others and what you are alone. The vertigo and the constant hunger to be exposed, to be seen through, perhaps even wiped out. Every inflection and every gesture a lie, every smile a grimace.
No death no fear sf43
I know many parents whose children, when they are eighteen or nineteen years old, leave home and live on their own. The parents lose their children and feel very sorry for themselves. Yet the parents did not value the moments they had with their children. The same is true of husbands and wives. You think that your spouse will be there for the whole of your life, but how can you be so sure? We really have no idea where our partners will be in twenty or thirty years' time or even tomorrow. It is very important to remember every day the practice of impermanence.
Your actions reveal how badly you want something. If you keep saying something is a priority but you never act on it, then you don't really want it. It's time to have an honest conversation with yourself.
Your actions reveal your true motivations.