“For children love is a feeling; for adults, it is a decision. Children wait to learn if their love is true by seeing how long it lasts; adults make their love true by never wavering from their commitment.”
Orson Scott Card, Pathfinder
“Everyone has choices to make, no one has the right to take those away from you. Not even out of love. But that’s just it, when you love someone, you don’t have a choice. Love takes your choices away.”
Cassandra Clare, City of Glass
“I don’t think true love means your only love. I think that true love means loving truly. Loving purely. Loving wholly. Maybe, if you’re the kind of person who’s willing to give all of yourself, the kind of person who is willing to love with all of your heart even though you’ve experienced just how much it can hurt…maybe you get lots of true loves, then. Maybe that’s the gift you get for being brave. I am a woman who dares to love again.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid, One True Loves
“Just because something isn’t meant to last a lifetime doesn’t mean it wasn’t meant to be. We were meant to have been. You and I aren’t going to spend our lives together…But I finally understand that that doesn’t take away any of the beauty of the fact that we were right for each other once. True love doesn’t always last…It doesn’t always have to be for a lifetime. And that doesn’t mean it’s not true love. It was real. And now it’s over. And that’s OK.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid, One True Loves
“I love you. I wish I didn’t say it so often. I wish that my love for Sam wasn’t so casual and pervasive– So that I could save that phrase for moments like this. But that’s not bery realistic, is it? When you love someone, it seeps out of everything you do, it bleeds into everything you say, it becomes so ever present, that eventually it becomes ordinary to hear, no matter how extraordinary it feels.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid, One True Loves
“The excitement of wondering what the other person will say next. The thrill of knowing someone is looking at you, liking what they see. They rush of looking at someone and liking what you see in them. Flirting is probably just as much about falling in love with yourself as it is with someone else.
Taylor Jenkins Reid, One True Loves
“The end of a life is the sum of the love that was lived in it.”
Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess
“You are not incomplete because a piece of your heart is gone. You are you, an entire whole, all on your own. If you have loved and been loved, then you are richer for it; you don’t become a smaller version of yourself simply because what you once had is gone.”
Olivie Blake, Lovely Tangled Vices
“You mistake love. You think it has to have a future in order to matter, but it doesn’t. It’s the only thing that does not need to become at all. It matters only insofar as it exists. Here. Now. Love doesn’t require a future.”
Rebecca Serle, In Five Years
“My father loved her more than anything. More than the island, more than us. That was his choice. And when she died he fell to pieces because there was nothing else! That’s what comes of choosing to love something above all others, instead of widening your heart…I won’t love anyone so much more than anything else that I lose it all if that person is lost. If it makes your world smaller, it isn’t love.”
Tessa Gratton, The Queens of Innis Lear
“No one can be free. To be free is to have no one. To be alone. The more people we love, the less free we are.”
Sarah Ahiers, Assassin’s Heart
“Love is wonderful, but it doesn’t justify anything or make a bad choice wise. Everyone loves. Murderers love. Pick any atrocity you want, and someone will be able to justify it out of something they call love. Anything can wear love like a cloack.”
Daniel Abraham, The Tyrant’s Law
“Love is noble, and so we wrap it around all the things we think perhaps aren’t noble in hopes no one will see what they really are. Fear. Anger. Shame.”
Daniel Abraham, The Tyrant’s Law
“The most terrible things men do, they do in the name of love.”
Cassandra Clare, City of Bones
“And if you love, you’ll never be alone”
L. J. Smith, Night World (3)
“What you did, I know you did for love. Love’s not always wise, I’ve learned. It can lead us to great folly, but we follow our hearts…wherever they take us.”
George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords
“If there are as many minds as there are men, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.”
Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
“Being in love was like China: you knew it was there, and no doubt it was very interesting, and some people went there, but I never would. I’d spend all my life without ever going to China, but it wouldn’t matter, because there was the rest of the world to visit.”
Philip Pullman, Amber Spy Class
“Love is the bane of honor, the death of duty.”
George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
“It is a great thing to love as it is to be loved. Love is nothing that can be wasted.”
Cassandra Clare, Clockwork
“Love and learning are similar in that they can never be wasted.”
Hope Jahren, Lab Girl
