Quotes About Love
Her feeling for Mr Brooks was so much the most important part of her life that it seemed like something which did not belong to her, but which she had to carry about with her, at work or in her room, there was no difference. She had a kind of affection, too, for the love itself, which was so strong, but maintained itself on so little. There had been a time, not at all long ago, when she hadn't had this responsibility, but it was hard for her to remember how she had felt then.
~ Penelope Fitzgerald
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At that precise moment, while the juniors were eating their dessert at Prunier's, Annie fell in love with RPD absolutely, and hers must have been the last generation to fall in love without hope in such an unproductive way. After the war the species no longer found it biologically useful, and indeed it was not useful to Annie. Love without hope grows in its own atmosphere, and should encourage the imagination, but Annie's grew narrower.
~ Penelope Fitzgerald
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She was in love, as she quite saw, with a middle - aged man who said the same thing to all the girls, who had been a prince for an evening which he'd most likely forgotten already, who had given her a ring with a redcurrant in it and who cared, to the exclusion of all else, for his work.
~ Penelope Fitzgerald
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When they married he wouldn't be able to go on where he was. On the other hand, if she wouldn't have him, he didn't see that he would be able to go on at all.
~ Penelope Fitzgerald
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Cuando llegas al final de tu vida y ves como te acercas a la eternidad, lo unico que importa es que hayas querido de todo corazon a tus seres queridos, nada mas.
~ Unknown
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Sólo sumida en ese torbellino de emociones, en mis horas, más bajas, descubrí que la gente podía seguir amándome aunque viera mi verdadero yo. Con el lado oscuro incluido.
~ Unknown
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Mama always used to say that love is never lost, even if it's not returned in the way you hope or expect. "Put it on out there," she said. "Lay your heart on the line, and don't be afraid of getting it broken. Broken hearts heal. Guarded hearts just turn to stone.
~ Unknown
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We are the body of Christ. We are the continuing incarnation of the Divine. Look around and see Jesus. We who believe and trust and love each other are the manifestation of God in this place, at this time.
~ Unknown
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Twenty Inches and Eight pounds of infant can, and undoubtedly sometimes will, reduce two or more intelligent, competent, organized adults to anxious, exhausted incompetent jellies.
~ Penelope Leach
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How many men have asked you to marry them?' 'Not a lot. Most had too strong an instinct for self-preservation.
~ Penelope Lively
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Far as I'm concerned, they're all still here, like a lot of dear little ghosts.
~ Penelope Lively
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Matt knew only that he must see her again, and forever.
~ Penelope Lively
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Matt only knew that he was entirely happy, wholly in love, and that years of this rolled ahead, waiting for him.
~ Penelope Lively
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You give birth to them. You do not design them.
~ Penelope Lively
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What I could offer Lisa was not the conventional haven of maternal love and concern but my mind and my energy. If she had not acquired these genetically then I was quite prepared to show her how to think and act. I was no good at kissing away tears or telling bedtime stories – any mother can do that: my uses were potentially far more significant.
~ Penelope Lively
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Lisa does not think about possible outcomes because a a world in whcih Claudia is not cannot be imagined. Claudia simply is, ever has been and always will be.
~ Penelope Lively
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When you prefer soup and the telly to a few hours with your lover there is something not quite right.
~ Penelope Lively
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Enough of Jasper. It should be clear by now how he fits into the scheme of things. Lover to begin with, sparring partner always, father of my child; our lives sometimes fusing, sometimes straying apart, always connected. I loved him once, but cannot remember how that felt.
~ Penelope Lively
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When we are married - and we will be married, I know we will, I see the long years of our marriage ahead like a great spacious welcoming firelit room - when we are married we shall have a house in London because I want to show you off. I want to wave you around in pride. We'll have that - but we'll also have Porlock, or somewhere like Porlock because we're going to want to be alone, and work, and shut the door on people...
~ Penelope Lively
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I mean loving the moon in the sky but leaving it there. Because even suppose you managed to bring it down, that would make the earth darker and not brighter, however good an idea it might have seemed when you first entertained it.
~ Unknown
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God's justice is subordinate to his love, for his justice is a property of his character, but his love is his essential self. For do not the Scriptures say, "God is love," but never, "God is justice"?
~ Unknown
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The brokenness of his body (and we are his body) is healed in our love, in our common life—which is his love, his life, in us.
~ Unknown
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É isso o amor. Manter a ternura pelo mesmo homem, embora se deseje outros a momentos diferentes.
~ Unknown
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sorriso tímidodoce dela. (...) Sarangerel, nome de ave e de mel. Ou de luar.
~ Unknown
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