Quotes
It is one of the best traits of good people that they love where they pity. And this is truer of women than of men. So they get themselves drawn into situations that are harmful to them. I have seen this happen many, many times. I have always had trouble finding a way to caution against it. Since it is, in a word, Christlike.
"You care for me a little bit, I do think," he admitted, "but I can't hang all my life on a little bit. You don't. You hang yours on Anne. You don't worry whether your relation with her is platonic or not, you only know it's big enough to hang a life on."
Love was an emotion through which you occasionally enjoyed yourself. It could not do things.
When love flies it is remembered not as love but as something else. Blessed are the uneducated, who forget it entirely, and are never conscious of folly or pruriency in the past, of long aimless conversations.
"Someone to last your whole life and you his. I suppose such a thing can't really happen outside sleep."
"For love to end where it begins is far more beautiful, and Nature knows it."
"Without love, we are birds with broken wings."
"If we can remember the feeling of love we once had, we can die without ever going away."
"Life has to end." Marguerite said. "Love doesn't"
"So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning."
"Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone."
Sometimes, when loneliness seems about to crush everything, the only way to resist is to keep on loving.
