# Quote — Stephenie Meyer, The Host

> What was it that made this human love so much more desirable to me than the love of my own kind? Was it because it was exclusive and capricious? The souls offered love and acceptance to all. Did I crave a greater challenge? This love was tricky; it had no hard-and-fast rules — it might be given for free, as with Jamie, or earned through time and hard work, as with Ian, or completely and heartbreakingly unattainable, as with Jared.
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> Or was it simply better somehow? Because these humans could hate with so much fury, was the other end of the spectrum that they could love with more heart and zeal and fire?

- Author: [Stephenie Meyer](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephenie-meyer.md)
- Book: [The Host](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephenie-meyer/the-host.md)
- Page: 472
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Stephenie_Meyer#The_Host_(2008)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephenie-meyer/the-host/what-was-it-that

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> This place was truly the highest and the lowest of all worlds — the most beautiful senses, the most exquisite emotions... the most malevolent desires, the darkest deeds. Perhaps it was meant to be so. Perhaps without the lows, the highs could not be reached.

p. 141 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephenie-meyer/the-host/this-place-was.md)

> "It was a miracle — more than a miracle — when I found you, Melanie. Right now, if I was given the choice between having the world back and having you, I wouldn't be able to give you up. Not to save five billion lives."

p. 78 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephenie-meyer/the-host/it-was-a-miracle.md)

> "I held you in my hand, Wanderer. And you were so beautiful."

p. 605 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephenie-meyer/the-host/i-held-you.md)