Another Word for Love Quotes

“If you are a man, if you have hurt a woman, and you most definitely have, I want you to lean in very closely and listen very carefully to the following words: You can never be free. Apology is not enough. Healing is not enough. Time is not enough. What you can do is never enough because what you have done is bigger than you will ever be. The closest you may come is to turn yourself over and over and over again to the honest, divine, and wholly annihilating practice of love.”
― Carvell Wallace, Another Word for Love: A Memoir

“And it dawned on me that all we have, in the entire endless universe, is each other. It doesn’t matter to the stars what I do, but it does matter to us what we do. We are all we have.”
― Carvell Wallace, Another Word for Love: A Memoir

“It all makes me think of how fragile we are. Which is good news. This means that everything that we've created can crumble. The police. The governments. The tanks and rockets. The systems, the hierarchies, the caste made upon sand, violence, the murders. In bedrooms and schoolrooms, on playgrounds, in grocery stores, in deserts, and alleyways, and homes, and offices. All of it can crumble. All of it can be reborn. It must. We must. This is another way of saying love.”
― Carvell Wallace, Another Word for Love: A Memoir

“One impact of a society that gives some people an unquestioned right to all the resources and power is that it creates out of those people a population who cannot understand the sheer and simple love of being alive, the love of gratitude, the love of satisfaction and serenity. Everything is too little for them. The world is never enough. There is not enough action. The mere act of being is not meaningful for them. It never can be.

Sometimes I think our society will be forever lost until we are no longer ruled by people who feel this way. Or until they, too, lose enough to be grateful for the mere fact of being. That may be painful. That may be right.”
― Carvell Wallace, Another Word for Love: A Memoir

“I wanted to be in a room of people whose liberation had taken them through that hell and who knew what it cost to be free and for whom that cost was not a choice or an option. I wanted to be with people who could not be alive unless they were free, not people who could be fine with a convenient amount of liberation because the world still generally worked for them no matter how many fucked-up systems were in place for everyone else.”
― Carvell Wallace, Another Word for Love: A Memoir

“didn’t want to be with people for whom liberation was a vitamin, a nice thing that might enhance their lives and make things better and would be super cool and awesome if it came about. I wanted to be with people for whom liberation was a medicine, something without which they would simply die. That is why I went to the queer, trans, Black, Indigenous, POC sex party.”
― Carvell Wallace, Another Word for Love: A Memoir

“just made my life my apology, my way of loving them and showing up for them and telling them that I was proud of literally every aspect of who they were, and that I was listening to them and learning from them, and just spending time with them, fighting with them, and laughing with them, and apologizing to them when I was wrong or self-centered or short-tempered, and trying every day to give”
― Carvell Wallace, Another Word for Love: A Memoir

“Sometimes you lose people you love—— even if those people are you.”
― Carvell Wallace, Another Word for Love: A Memoir

“Once I found drugs and alcohol it was hard to tell which came first, the depression or the depressives, but everything synced up and I felt like I was a complete person because I was both the destroyer and the destroyed.”
― Carvell Wallace, Another Word for Love: A Memoir

“For practice at this we played football, which meant colliding at full speed with other bodies who themselves were using immunity to pain as a form of social capital.”
― Carvell Wallace, Another Word for Love: A Memoir

“I watched her and saw that she needed me. I watched her and saw that I was not enough”
― Carvell Wallace, Another Word for Love: A Memoir

“I guess that's what time does, changes the meaning of things. I try not to bother too much about figuring out which truth is the truest. A lot of things, I have learned, can be true at once. That is how I have survived.”
― Carvell Wallace, Another Word for Love: A Memoir

“It's hard to know anymore what's what. I guess that's what time does, changes the meaning of things. I try not to bother too much about figuring out which truth is the truest. A lot of things, I have learned, can be true at once. That is how I have survived.”
― Carvell Wallace, Another Word for Love: A Memoir

“What an amazing gift, not only to feel like a complete human, but to be seen as one. When I look at the bizarre arrangement of things that had to align for me to be where I am today, it doesn't seem like the purpose was to have a career or gain followers. It seems like all of these forces made it possible for me to find you. As you are right now. Where you are right now. And for you to find me. Because I think we might need one another.”
― Carvell Wallace, Another Word for Love: A Memoir