Lovingly Quotes (page 643)

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• father
• acceptance
• love

He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the first political party he meets? most likely his father's. He gets rest, commodity, and reputation; but he shuts the door of truth. Ralph Waldo Emerson

• love
• retirement
• retire

And I am in retirement from love. William Gass

• i need you
• top
• giving up

But if you think I'm going to let you give up on us now, you've got another think coming. Yes, you're a blind mutant freak, but you're my blind mutant freak, and you're coming with me, now, you're coming with us right now, or I swear I will kick your skinny white ass from here to the middle of next week. Iggy raised his head. Flashes of light told me that the cops were almost on top of us. Iggy, I need you," I said urgently. "I love you. I need all of you, all five of you, to fell whole... James Patterson

• love
• style
• universe

A universal style is one that knows how to embrace lovingly those not quite developed. Witold Gombrowicz

• love
• eyes
• people

People do not love those whose eyes show that they are somewhere else Peter Carey

• hurt
• to live
• life

Life is a strange thing. Why this longing for life? It is a game which no man wins. To live is to toil hard and to suffer sore, till old age creeps heavily upon us and we throw down our hands on the cold ashes of dead fires. It is hard to live. In pain the babe sucks his first breath, in pain the old man gasps his last, and all his days are full of trouble and sorrow; yet he goes down to the open arms of death, stumbling, falling, with head turned backward, fighting to the last. And death is... Jack London

• love
• friends
• feel good

Dessie's friends were good and loyal but they were human, and humans love to feel good and they hate to feel bad. John Steinbeck

• thankful
• lost
• love

Dear Mia, What can I say? I don't know all that much about romance novels, but I think you must be the Stephen King of the genre. Your book is hot. Thanks for letting me read it. Anyone who doesn't want to publish it is a fool. Anyway, since I know it's your birthday, and I also know you never remember to back anything up, here's a little something I made for you. It would be a shame if Ransom My Heart got lost before it ever saw the light of day because your hard drive crashed. See you... Meg Cabot

• evening
• life
• love

And if there's love, you can do without happiness too. Even with sorrow, life is sweet. Fyodor Dostoevsky

• love
• women
• men

The bravest thing that men do is love women. Mort Sahl

• forever
• giving up
• love

Fidelity, enforced and unto death, is the price you pay for the kind of love you never want to give up, for someone you want to hold forever, tighter and tighter, whether he's close or far away, someone who becomes dearer to you the more you've sacrificed for his sake. Marguerite Duras

• water
• love
• giving

It is always difficult to give oneself up; few persons anywhere ever succeed in doing so, and even fewer transcend the possessive stage to know love for what it actually is: a perpetual discovery, and immersion in the waters of reality, an unending re-creation. Octavio Paz

• life
• love
• your life

So many vows … they make you swear and swear. Defend the king. Obey the king. Keep his secrets. Do his bidding. Your life for his. But obey your father. Love your sister. Protect the innocent. Defend the weak. Respect the gods. Obey the laws. It’s too much. No matter what you do, you’re forsaking one vow or another. George R. R. Martin

• love
• reality
• aware

Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging. Toni Morrison

• love
• play
• little

Oregon is demure, and lovely, and it ought to play a little hard to get. Tom McCall