Quotes About Love

What reveals a genuine love for God is my ability to convince my family and others of my love for them.

They say love is blind, but for me it's the opposite. It makes me see the good in him, too, which is why I can never hate him.' --Mom (Fran)

Granny was right,' I said. 'When you forgive someone it does make you stronger. It makes your heart bigger than your hate.

Not romantic," she disagreed. "To me it would be romantic if Antony properly fell on his sword and kicked the bucket and Cleopatra escaped and lived a lovely life sailing along the Nile without him and his big ideas ruining her kingdom.

You want to know a secret?" I asked. "Sure," she said halfheartedly. "I love to sniff the insides of books," I said in a whisper. "Because each book has its own special perfume.

Of course I still love my grandma even after all the awful stuff she did to me, which is scary that you can love someone who is not nice. I guess that is what getting better will do to a person: make you forgive people who have been mean to you.

Still, he was another guy in the house, and Mom was mine first, and her being my mom is a thousand times more important than her being some guy's girlfriend. So even though Booth wasn't trying to run the show, he was still in the way.

The heart is a foreign country whose language none of us is good at.

Let me fall in love one last time, I beg them. Teach me mortality, frighten me into the present.

It's not the dreams. It's this love of you that grows in me malignant.

Walking in the dark streets of Seoul under the almost full moon. Lost for the last two hours. Finishing a loaf of bread and worried about the curfew. I have not spoken for three days and I am thinking, "Why not just settle for love? Why not just settle for love instead?

Michiko Nogami (1946—1982)" Is she more apparent because she is not anymore forever? Is her whiteness more white because she was the color of pale honey? A smokestack making the sky more visible. A dead woman filling the whole world. Michiko said, "The roses you gave me kept me awake with the sound of their petals falling.

But one can acquire a taste for love as for loneliness or ugliness as for saintliness. Each a special way of going down.

The heart never fits the journey. Always one ends first.

Love can leave you nowhere in New Mexico raising peacocks for the rest of your life.

Getting Ready" What if the heart does not pale as the body wanes, but is like the sun that blazes hotter each day on these immense, perishing fields? What then? (Desire is not the problem. This far south, we are careful not to mistake seizures for love.) He sits there bewildered in a clamp of light In the stillness, the sun grinds him clean.

Goodness is a triumph. And so it is / with love. Love is not the part / we are born with that flowers / a little and then wanes as we / grow up. We cobble love together / from this and those of our machinery / until there is suddenly an apparition / that never existed before.

I came back from the funeral and crawled around the apartment, crying hard, searching for my wife's hair. For two months got them from the drain, from the vacuum cleaner, under the refrigerator, and off the clothes in the closet. But after other Japanese women came, there was no way to be sure which were hers, and I stopped. A year later, repotting Michiko's avocado, I find a long black hair tangled in the dirt.

The rain and the smell of night pulled at me. Confused me.) Everything means a choice, she had said, getting one thing and losing one. The love still held me, but all at once I could, despite the rain, admit to myself what I really wanted was this clarity.

The Great Fires" Love is apart from all things. … Love allows us to walk in the sweet music of our particular heart.

sea otters hold each other's paws whilst they are asleep so they don't drift apart from each other.

one of the cutest facts you will ever read, sea otters hold each other's paws whilst they are asleep so they don't drift apart from each other. Elephant shrews are more closely related to elephants than they are shrews.

possibly one of the cutest facts you will ever read, sea otters hold each other's paws whilst they are asleep so they don't drift apart from each other.

She was aware that she was close to tears and her stomach was hollow with excitement, throat dry. Coup de foudre , the French called it. The thunderclap. The best kind of love of all. Instant and quite irrevocable