Quotes About Love

He's the best thing that could have happened to us, I said. And that was no lie. It was, instead, the best kind of truth, the one that meant at least two things.

We were not a people who charged into war at the beck and call of bugle or trumpet. No, we fought to the tunes of love songs, for we were the Italians of Asia.

In the end, my father had it right. He called me nothing at all.

So I fell in love with Phi Phi, a harmless enough emotion. I was wont to fall in love two or three times a year and was now well past due.

While it is better to be loved than hated, it is also far better to be hated than ignored

I cannot be the only one who believes that if others just saw who I really was, then I would be understood and, perhaps, loved.

No, we fought to the tunes of love songs, for we were the Italians of Asia.

After love, was sadness not the most common noun in our lyrical repertoire? Did we salivate for sadness, or had we on learned to enjoy what we were forced to eat?

I'd Love You To Want Me" was the theme song of the bachelors and unhappily married males of my generation, whether in the English original or the equally superb French and Vietnamese renditions. What the song expressed so perfectly from lyric to melody was unrequited love, and we men of the south loved nothing more than unrequited love, cracked hearts our primary weakness after cigarettes, coffee, and cognac.

would fall in love with the young, handsome,

I've tried love," Louis said, as if it were a kind of soft, malodorous French cheese. "It's okay, but the problem with it is the other person involved. She has a mind of her own. You can't say the same thing about things.

She wondered what, if anything, she knew about love. Not much, perhaps, but enough to know that what she would do for him now she would do again tomorrow, and the next day, and the day after that.

Bang bang was the sound of memory's pistol firing into our heads, for we could not forget love, we could not forget war, we could not forget lovers, we could not forget enemies, we could not forget home, and we could not forget Saigon.

Racist love is still racist.

We wanted love, peace, and justice, except for our enemies, whom we wanted to burn in Hell, preferably for eternity.

You just got caught by surprise. Sooner or later you'll figure out love's just a reflex action some of us have.

More than all those people starved by famine, it was the thought of my mother not remembering what she looked like as a little girl that saddened me.

Can you love someone you don't remember? Can you love someone you don't know?

She wondered what, if anything, she knew about love. Not much, perhaps, but enough to know that what she would do for him now she would do again tomorrow, and the next day, and the day after that. She would read out loud, from the beginning. She would read with measured breath, to the very end. She would read as if every letter counted, page by page and word by word.

I've tried love," Louis said, as if it were a kind of soft, malodorous French cheese.

Brothers and sisters are as close as hands and feet.

The entire sum of existence is the magic of being needed by just one person.

A Christian Family is God's Advertisement of His Kingdom to the World !

Life is all about three things. Winning, Growing & Sharing. Winning- People with God's Love, Growing - Oneself & Others with God's Grace and Sharing - the Joy of Living with God's Power !