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Copy/paste the text below into your blog. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/115076.Love_Walked_In?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="Love Walked In" border="0" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171698450m/115076.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/115076.Love_Walked_In?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">Love Walked In</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/66631.Marisa_de_los_Santos">Marisa de los Santos</a><br/><br/> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21546283?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a> rating: 5 of 5 stars<br/>"I've always found allegories kind of comforting. When you encounter people named Liar and Abstinence, you might not be crazy about them, but you know exactly what you're getting into." <br/> <br/>"...I needed to love it and, in my experience, it isn't always easy to figure out what you love. You'd think it would be, but it isn't." <br/> <br/>"It was the conversation I'd been waiting for all my life." <br/> <br/>"Why I wasn't is a long story- so long that it probably isn't a story at all. It's probably just the way I am." <br/> <br/>"At first she was happy because she had decided to be, and then she relaxed into her happiness and just felt it." <br/> <br/>"Good intentions, talented players, everyone trying hard. Just bad casting." <br/> <br/>"Do you see what I mean at all? Questions the asking of which erases the reason for asking, yes? Something like, 'If you have to ask, no way are you ever getting the answer you're looking for.'" <br/> <br/>"I don't mind being wrong, but I can't bear to be <i> in </i> the wrong, or on the side of wrong." <br/> <br/>"But while that sounds simple enough, when you think about it, it wasn't simple at all. For one thing, all of the above reasons for at the very least keeping him at a distance and at the very most breaking it off with him on the spot did not erase everything else that was true about him and about me and him together. If they should have erased all that, they did not." <br/> <br/>"I don't think love is blind, but wanting to be in love, that's probably blind." <br/> <br/>"What she came to was that even if someone wasn't perfect or even especially good, you couldn't dismiss the love they felt. Love was always love; it had a rightness all its own, even if the person feeling the love was full of wrongness." <br/> <br/>"What do you do when you're in love with the last man in the world you can have? You plan a life, a real life, without him." <br/> <br/>"She smiled at me. 'Love always matters,' she said." <br/> <br/>"In certain situations, you can't worry about how people will react. You just have to be as honest as you can and let what happens afterward happen." <br/> <br/>"I'd figured out that a real life didn't mean attaining my heart's desire, but <i> knowing </i> it, meant not the satisfaction, but the longing. Knowing what you love and why, I found out, is as real as it gets." <br/> <br/>"Yes, it's true, what I said earlier: A real life doesn't mean getting what you want; the achievement, the privilege, too, is knowing what you love. But getting what you love? Having what you love love you back? Oh, my friend, it's miracle: your one tiny life's head-on collision with divinity." <br/> <br/>"Our loving each other is just the world we live in, like the grass under our feet. No matter where ae are, it's the world we live in. Do you know what I mean? <br/> <br/><br/><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/184218?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">View all my reviews.</a>