Quotes About Love

Will you wear my ring, Ivy?" Will you permit me to wear yours?

Cupping his face, Ísa kissed him with wild affection. "Thank you for caring." He rolled his eyes. "That's like thanking me for breathing." She was his; of course he'd care for her and those who were important to her.

Even lovers of murder had a well-concealed romantic bone or two. Probably buried in the basement under two feet of concrete.

Blushing, she took it from him. She dared not put her nose to it; like everything that Tony had ever given her, this gift had thorns.

The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do.

Oh, what a gift God made when He created dogs. She had loved—and laid to rest—so many sweet dogs in her lifetime—each with its own personality; each with its own way of bringing comfort; each with solemn, loving eyes that were filled with all the wisdom in the world; and each leaving a gaping hole in her heart when they died and making her vow to never get another, never set herself up for so much sadness again. But she always did.

For by grace you have been saved . . . —Ephesians 2:8

There is no Hindu, there is no Muslim.

She loved him because he was the reason why.

I knew then, in that small moment, that all my life I would be the kind of woman that inspired weakness in men. It was like my future stretched out in front of me and I could see it, a future of men turning to me for comfort, not passion. Men trusting me more than I wanted to be trusted. Men turning into boys, maybe even babies, in my arms. I would be the kind of woman who loved men into lesser, not finer, selves.

I am thankful for a lawn that needs mowing, windows that need cleaning and gutters that need fixing because it means I have a home.... I am thankful for the piles of laundry and ironing because it means my loved ones are nearby.

She knew that the only love her demon was capable of was self-destructive, cruel, vampiric, parasitic, and all the other words her best friends had used to describe Jerry, Alec, Christian, Matt, and the others whose names, faces, and genitalia had now blurred together in her memories. They were men incapable of love yet able to inspire suicide threats.

I have been privileged to feel enormous love for my children and that's their eternal gift to me. This love is always there softly glowing inside of me, and only causes pain when I diminish it with expectations.

Helplessness in the face of a child's suffering is the curse of parenthood.

Maybe, when all was said and done, that was where love began and what kept it alive: the simple, everyday act of paying attention.

God's heart is big enough to hold people of all faiths and races.

He refuses to let bitterness poison his heart. He chooses instead to believe in the healing power of love.

We fight evil by] "We kiss our children. We make sticky lemon cake for our husband. We cherish our friends. We leave the great hedge standing tall as a haven for birds, and mice and spiders. We defeat evil every time we commit acts of kindness. When necessary, we hit it with a rock.

She married my

If you're having a bad hair day or a bad boy day, he'll whip up one of his yummy mango smoothies for you, sit you down, and say, "Little one, remember what's really important in life: a family that loves you, good friends, and not putting too much garlic in the pesto." — Chloe Carlson

Though Amelie was a voracious reader of romantic novels, she was painfully shy around men in whom she found an interest.

Perhaps, for some, love strikes like lightning, but for me, it crept upon me like a thief in the night. A very handsome thief, who has quite stolen my once-lonely heart.

I cannot love two people at once," Becky told William. "No. You can't," he said. "Well, then. That's all right, then. Of course one can't, I mean to say, I wasn't sure you hadn't mistaken any aspect of our friendship for something else." Her heart stood still and it raced, all at once. "Because you don't love him," William said.

Oh Papa. I always felt like I had a hold on things when there was Papa to turn to.