#love

"People die, I think, but your relationship with them doesn't. It continues and is ever-changing."

"Un libro leído a medias es una aventura amorosa incompleta."

"So don't you worry your pretty little mind because people throw rocks at things that shine. [Ours]"

"He loved her, of course, but better than that, he chose her, day after day. Choice: that was the thing."

"Jealous?""Maybe.""No reason. I like my ladies with a pulse."

"People don't get to our ages without having pasts. I'm more interested in the future."

"Ethical Dilemma of an Ascending Body [10w] + [10w] You can't ascend a ladderwithout rungs to push back;you can't climb a staircasewithout stairs to step on."

"There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man."

"But I think we both knew, even then, that what we had was something even more rare, and even more meaningful. I was going to be his friend, and was going to show him possibilities. And he, in turn, would become someone I could trust more than myself."

"some people fall in love over and over again while some people can only do it once."

"It was not the passion that was new to her, it was the yearning adoration. She knew she had always feared it, for it left her helpless; she feared it still, lest if she adored him too much, then she would lose herself, become effaced, and she did not want to be effaced, a slave, like a savage woman. She must not become a slave. She feared her adoration, yet she would not at once fight against it."

"He must love you very much,' Gavril said once I had my footing.I couldn't look at him. 'What makes you say that?' Gavril sighed. 'I've known Maxon since he was a child. He's never stood up to his father like that."

"As fallible humans, we usually slip too far over one edge or the other - all wrath and judgment or all grace and love."

"... the proper self-knowledge and self-love of every created thing is ipso facto a participation in the knowledge and love of God. The entire universe moves by desire for the Highest Good simply because every part of it loves what God loves - namely, its own being."

"Love is forgiving, accepting, moving on, embracing, and all encompassing. And if you’re not doing that for yourself, you cannot do that with anyone else."

"Genocide [10w] Genocide is the runaway bride once death becomes the bridegroom."

"She is the crescendo, the final, astonishing work of God. Woman. In one last flourish creation comes to a finish with Eve. She is the Master's finishing touch."

"You have my whole heart. You always did."

"I think... if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts."

"Accept love with love, but never forget to forgive hate with love."