Love alone could waken love.

—Pearl S. Buck

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Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker Buck (June 26, 1892 – March 6, 1973) was an American writer and humanitarian. She is best known for The Good Earth, the best-selling novel in the United States in 1931 and 1932, which won her the Pulitzer Prize in 1932. In 1938, Buck became the first...

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One faces the future with one's past.

—Pearl S. Buck

I am comforted by life's stability, by earth's unchangeableness.… What is new is only new to us.

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We need to restore the full meaning of that old word duty. It is the other side of rights.

—Pearl S. Buck

I am so absorbed in the wonder of the earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and the angels. I have enough for this life.

—Pearl S. Buck

None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

—Pearl S. Buck

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You don’t ever really let go, though. You don’t stop. You don’t stop hurting, you don’t stop loving. It doesn’t go away, you just keep living and eventually things get pushed into the background of your life so it’s not consuming you every day. And then one day you know you’re okay. It still hurts, you still miss that person. And yeah, you forget the details. The way she smelled, the way her mouth tasted, how her skin felt, the sound of her voice. It’s almost like a different life, a different person that loved her, was with her. But on a day-to-day level, you know you’re okay. Sort of.

—Jasinda Wilder in Falling Into You

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I think that’s how I would describe love right now if someone asked me. You’re so connected to someone else that the world and all its cliques and challenges and traumas and mysteries can’t hurt you that much.

—Audrey Hart in The Dig

Love is the outreach of self toward completion.

—Ralph W. Sockman

Everyone wants to fall in love. But I think more people are in love with the theory of love. If you’re looking in from the outside, it looks so beautiful. On the inside, it’s scary because it can take over your life. It’s the strongest emotion but also the darkest. It can put you on a high for days, but it can wrap an anchor around your feet and drown you in less than a minute.

—Calia Read in Calia Read

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The older woman's love is not love of herself, nor of herself mirrored in a lover's eyes, nor is it corrupted by need. It is a feeling of tenderness so still and deep and warm that it gilds every grass blade and blesses every fly. It includes the ones who have a claim on it, and a great deal else besides. I wouldn't have missed it for the world.

—Germaine Greer

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