Quotes About Love

Love is a decision.

Sometimes their children would do everything exactly as they'd taught them, and sometimes they would do all the things they'd told them not to do, and seeing them suffer the tiniest disappointments would be more painful than their own most significant losses, but then other times they would do something so extraordinary, so unexpected and beautiful, so entirely of their own choice and their own making, it was like a splash of icy water on a hot day.

Friends are the family we chose for ourselves.

I'll tell you something, something important. Write this down. You ready?' 'Yes, yes, I'm ready.' 'Love is a decision.' 'Love is a decision?' 'That's right. A decision. Not a feeling. That's what you young people don't realise. That's why you're always off divorcing each other. No offence, dear.

Sharing is caring!" "You

Oh, yes, her husband was hopeless, and lost things and ran late, but he took care of his wife and daughters, in that old-fashioned, responsible, I-am-the-man-and-this-is-my-job way. Bridget was right: Cecilia ruled her world, but she'd always known that if there was a crisis—a crazed gunman, a flood, a fire—John-Paul would be the one to save their lives.

Dear Tess, she read. This is probably a silly gift for a girl. I never did know the right thing to buy you. I was trying to think of something that would help when you're feeling lost. I remember feeling lost. It was bloody awful. But I always had you. Hope you find your way, Love Dad.

She had betrayed him. He chose to still love her. There was nothing more to say.

Friendship is the only cure for hatred, the only guarantee of peace. —

nothing truly hurts until it happens to you. Most of all, to your child.

He was surprised to find himself close to tears, because it occurred to him that if he were to die, Ray would be snatched up like a too-good-to-be-true deal at the supermarket, and someone else could very easily love him the way he deserved to be loved.

Dear Tess", she read. "This is probably a silly gift for a girl. I never did know the right thing to buy you. I was trying to think of something that would help when you are feeling lost. I remember feeling lost. It was bloody awful. But I always had you. Hope you find your way. Love, Dad." Tess felt something rise within her chest. I guess it's quite pretty, said Lucy, taking the compass and turning it this way and that.

son is a son until he takes him a wife, a daughter is a daughter for all of her life.

That was the irony: Her mother loved things so much that she had nothing. Erika

Falling in love was easy. Anyone could fall. It was holding on that was tricky.

Did she love him as much as she hated him? Did she hate him as much as she loved him? "We

He was too damned grateful to have her. A woman wants to be adored but she doesn't want reverence.

When she had first held Jacob in her arms and pressed her lips to his tender, fragile scalp, it had felt as though she were being brought back to life, like a wilting plant being watered.

there was something in your children that could bring out the child in yourself. Nothing and nobody could aggravate you the way your child could aggravate you.

Med School. It was a soap about a group of very beautiful young medical students with shiny white teeth and complex love lives. Each episode featured a lot of blood and sex and anguish.

Mothers took their mothering so seriously now.

everyone had too much self-protective pride to truly strip down to their souls in front of their long-term partners.

Jimmy is looking adoringly down at Connie's dark head. What would it have been like to have a man love you like that? Would it have changed something fundamental in your psyche to wake up each morning knowing that you were loved, that someone wanted to touch your body even when it got all old and wrinkly?

Every marriage, every family, has its mysteries.