Quotes About Love

There was consolation: The people you loved, they were always there with you, she learned. Sometimes, she could be in front of a train kiosk or the window of a book store, and she could feel Noa's small hand when he was a boy, and she would close her eyes and think of his sweet grassy smell and remember that he had always tried his best. At those moments, it was good to be alone to hold on to him.

Every year, she cleaned the graves of her siblings; her

There was consolation: The people you loved, they were always there with you, she had learned. Sometimes, she could be in front of a train kiosk or the window of a bookstore, and she could feel Noa's small hand when he was a boy, and she would close her eyes and think of his sweet grassy smell and remember that he had always tried his est. At those moments, it was good to be alone to hold on to him.

That was the whole point of money, wasn't it, to be able to get your kid whatever he needed?

He could never replace her. And he felt he had done her a great injustice by not having told her this.

Ele amava a filha da mesma maneira que os pais dele o tinham amado, mas deu por si a não conseguir negar-lhe fosse o que fosse. Sunja era uma rapariga de aparência normal, com um riso fácil e uma boa disposição, mas aos olhos do pai ela era linda e ele maravilhava-se com a perfeição dela. Poucos pais no mundo valorizavam as filhas tanto como Hoonie, que parecia viver unicamente para a fazer sorrir.

Love for God, he'd thought, should come naturally and not out of fear of punishment.

Sunja wanted her sister-in-law to make Changho wait, but it wouldn't have been Kyunghee if she had made him do so. Changho had loved someone who would not betray her husband, and perhaps that was why he had loved her.

He read through Dickens, Thackeray, Hardy, Austen, and Trollope, then moved on to the Continent to read through much of Balzac, Zola, and Flaubert, then fell in love with Tolstoy. His favorite was Goethe; he must have read The Sorrows of Young Werther at least half a dozen times.

Sunja was a pragmatic woman, but even she thought Hansu was unusually cruel. The more she got to know this man, the more she realized that the man she'd loved as a girl was an idea she'd had of him – feelings without any verification.

The Lord continues to be committed to us even when we sin. He continues to love us. In some ways, the nature of his love for us resembles an enduring marriage, or how a father or mother may love a misbegotten child. Hosea was being called to be like God when he had to love a person who would have been difficult to love. We are difficult to love when we sin; a sin is always a transgression against the Lord." Shin looked carefully at Isak's face to see if he had reached him.

From the moment Tatsuo was born, she had been filled with grief and self-doubt because she was never good enough. Even though she had failed, being a mother was eternal; a part of her life wouldn't end with her death.

she's in love with you.

Her mother had shrunk.

I know you didn't want us. My brothers told me, and I told them they were wrong even though I knew they weren't. I clung to you because I wasn't going to let you just leave what you started. How can you tell me how hard it is to have children? You haven't even tried to be a mother. What right do you have? What makes you a mother?

Sunja believed this. She had loved Hansu, and then she had loved Isak. However, what she felt for her boys, Noa and Mozasu, was more than the love she'd felt for the men; this love for her children felt like life and death. After Noa had gone, she felt half-dead. She could not imagine any mother feeling differently.

There was consolation: The people you loved, they were always there with you, she had learned.

Yoseb would not allow Sunja to accept any money from Hansu for Noa's schooling.

He looked so happy, and it pleased her to see him like this. She could count on him to be a happy person.

You know, I've never wanted to be with another woman. Ever. Not just because she's so lovely, but because she's so good.

If life allowed revisions, she would let them stay in their bath a little longer, read them one more story before bed, and fix them another plate of shrimp.

How could he marry a sinful woman who would

You're a fool," she said, laughing, "but you are my fool.

he walked home alone, deep in thoughts of her, and he knew that he wanted to be with her, even if it would not be easy.