“I try to construct a theory of how a moral person should live in these circumstances, and how such a person should love.”
― Desierto: Memories of the Future
― Desierto: Memories of the Future
“The anticipation and dread he felt at seeing her was also a kind of sensual pleasure, and surrounding it, like an embrace, was a general elation--it might hurt, it was horribly inconvenient, no good might come of it, but he had found out for himself what it was to be in love, and it thrilled him.”
― Atonement
― Atonement
“He that dwelleth in love, dwelleth in God. God is love. Therefore love. Without distinction, without calculation, without procrastination, love. Lavish it upon the poor, where it is very easy; especially upon the rich, who often need it most; most of all upon out equals, where it is very difficult, and for whom perhaps we do the least of all.”
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“Home is anywhere that you know all your friends and all your enemies.”
― Hart's Hope
― Hart's Hope
“Friendship often ends in love. But love in friendship; never.”
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