“A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home.”
― Words of Paradise: Selected Poems of Rumi
― Words of Paradise: Selected Poems of Rumi
“Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.”
― Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War
― Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War
“In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”
― Pride And Prejudice
― Pride And Prejudice
“Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.”
― Airman's Odyssey
― Airman's Odyssey
“Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”
― The Lathe of Heaven
― The Lathe of Heaven
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