I didn’t want to be in love with you. I didn’t want to believe in love at all. It’s never happened to me before. And to be perfectly frank, I’m still not entirely happy about the whole thing. I think it’s going to be exhausting.
—Shana Abe in Queen of Dragons
Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.
—Wally Lamb
And like the fish, swimming in the vast sea and resting in its deeps, and like the bird, boldly mounting high in the sky, so the soul feels its spirit freely moving through the vastness and the depth and the unutterable richness of love.
—Beatrice of Nazareth
Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word love here not merely in a personal sense but as a state of being, or a state of grace—not in the infantile American sense of being made happy but in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth.
—James Baldwin
If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; But if you really make them think, they'll hate you.
—Don Marquis
The degree of loving is measured by the degree of giving.
—Edwin Louis Cole
People protect what they love.
—Jacques Yves Cousteau
Hell, madam, is to love no longer.
—Georges Bernanos
A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.
—Brendan Francis
Give me love and work—these two only.
—William Morris
Dear Lord, I'm so grateful I'm still loved.
—Vivien Leigh
Love is when you don't have to be with another person to touch their heart!
—Torquato Tasso
There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.
—Thomas Fuller
Love shouldn’t make you feel like that. It should be as natural as breathing. It should happen between two people because it grew there out of something beautiful.
—A. Meredith Walters in Cloud Walking
There is no love that is not an echo.
—Theodor W. Adorno