Quotes
I must, here again, in mere honesty, I must distinguish. I mean that I think you know, as well as I do, love is not a gift which any man can give nor any person hope long to retain. Ah, no, madame! we shrug, we smilingly allow romanticists their catchwords: meanwhile it remains the veriest axiom, among realists like you and me, that love too is but a loan.
There is no gift more great than love.
Love, I take it, must look toward something not quite accessible, something not quite understood.
"In spite of their sadness- because of it, even; for their sadness was the symptom of their love for one another- the three young men were happy"
Down on the lake rosy reflections of celestial vapor appeared, and I said, "God, I love you" and looked up to the sky and really meant it. "I have fallen in love with you, God. Take care of us all, one way or another."
Boys and girls in America have such a sad time together; sophistication demands that they submit to sex immediately without proper preliminary talk. Not courting talk — real straight talk about souls, for life is holy and every moment is precious.
We turned at a dozen paces, for love is a duel, and looked at each other for the last time.
A pain stabbed my heart, as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.
I love my gallant captain with all my heart and soul and might, and never will desert him, while God lets us be together. Oh, Mother, I never knew how much like heaven this world could be, when two people love and live for one another!
I was thinking what a curious thing love is; only a sentiment, and yet it has power to make fools of men and slaves of women. p. 45.
Love is a great beautifier.
Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy.
