Heart the Lover Quotes

“You know how you can remember exactly when and where you read certain books? A great novel, a truly great one, not only captures a particular fictional experience, it alters and intensifies the way you experience your own life while you’re reading it. And it preserves it, like a time capsule.”
― Lily King, Heart the Lover

“As soon as his voice is gone I have that feeling I often have when I’m away from my family, like they are moving farther and farther away from me, beginning to flicker faintly as distant stars and I will never ever reach them again. It feels like a premonition of the fact that someday, one by one, we will be separated from each other forever.”
― Lily King, Heart the Lover

“Someday we will remember even these our hardships with pleasure.”
― Lily King, Heart the Lover

“I have loved you all my life,' I whisper. 'See you after the next bang.”
― Lily King, Heart the Lover

“I’m aware that I had ideas about the future that I hadn’t discussed with myself.”
― Lily King, Heart the Lover

“The feeling catches me off guard.
Oh.
Love.”
― Lily King, Heart the Lover

“I think it’s the only form of hope we have. For our survival, I mean. What good is any other virtue without love?

In literature love is a weakness. Othello is easily manipulated by Iago because of his love for Desdemona. Anna Karenina throws herself under a train. Othello places his trust in Iago, not Desdemona. Anna Karenina’s society does not allow her to be with Vronsky.

Love is not the weakness. People get in its way. People are weak and perilous, not love.”
― Lily King, Heart the Lover

“What I am saying, these decisions we make in youth are everything. You have no idea. Those feelings, they don’t revenir. Pas comme ça. And no one tells you.’ She points to the pages of Yash’s letter on the bed. ‘Do not put this love second. Marry him. Marry him and have your babies. It doesn’t matter what happens after that.’ I say I’m only twenty-three and she says, ‘Screw the calendar. What does a calendar know about love?”
― Lily King, Heart the Lover

“Eternalism is the belief that everything that is, has been, and will be exists right now and forever, all at once. Presentism is the belief that only what exists in the present exists at all.”
― Lily King, Heart the Lover

“think we desire unity because we have felt it before and we want to feel it again. It’s our natural state.’ ‘Eternity as a concept is a bit terrifying,’ he says. ‘Only if time exists as we experience it. Which we know it does not. Without time, eternity loses its bite.”
― Lily King, Heart the Lover

“If he knew how much I loved him it would terrify him.”
― Lily King, Heart the Lover

“A great novel, a truly great one, not only captures a particular fictional experience, it alters and intensifies the way you experience your own life while you're reading it. And it preserves it, like a time capsule.”
― Lily King, Heart the Lover

“I’ve noticed that about people who had stable childhoods. They like to create their own problems.”
― Lily King, Heart the Lover

“You knew I'd write a book about you someday. You said once that I'd dredged up the whole hit parade minus you. I'll never know how you'd tell it. For me it begins here. Like this.”
― Lily King, Heart the Lover

“I think of my mother when I'm on a plane. I think of her many places, even though she's been gone sixteen years now. She's never seen my boys, but she's helped me raise them. I know how much she loves them. I feel that.”
― Lily King, Heart the Lover

“A friend gave it to me.’ For a moment I was barefoot in our road, watching his car disappear.”
― Lily King, Heart the Lover

“Isn’t love a form of hope?’ I said. ‘No. Love is crushing. Love is something you let yourself feel at your own peril”
― Lily King, Heart the Lover

“Love in your novels, I think, acts as a form of hope. Why hope?... I want to know about love"
"But isn't love a form of hope?"
"No, love is crushing. Love is something you let yourself feel at your own peril despite your better sense."
"True, it's all those things. But where would we be if we didn't feel it? I think it's the only form of hope we have, for our survival I mean. What good is any other virtue without love? In literature, love is a weakness.... Love is not the weakness, people get it its way people are weak and perilous, not love.”
― Lily King;, Heart the Lover

“You know how you can remember exactly when and where you read certain books? A great novel”
― Lily King, Heart the Lover

“I am so in love with him it is hard to take a full breath, I write in the journal. His absence feels like losing a lung.”
― Lily King, Heart the Lover

“I love how fast women get things.”
― Lily King, Heart the Lover

“We met in the fall and I brought him home for spring break and fell out of love with him in my mother's kitchen.”
― Lily King, Heart the Lover

“We say our goodnights and hang up. As soon as his voice is gone I have that feeling I often have when I’m away from my family, like they are moving farther and farther away from me, beginning to flicker faintly as distant stars and I will never ever reach them again. It feels like a premonition of the fact that someday, one by one, we will be separated from each other forever.”
― Lily King, Heart the Lover

“sure I was ever happier than when we were all together in a hotel room.”
― Lily King, Heart the Lover

“Of course it’s a tragedy. A very silly one. The absurdity is as great as the despair.”
― Lily King, Heart the Lover

“A great novel”
― Lily King, Heart the Lover

“You don’t think these wars are for lucre? Yes, cultural norms and fads bring temporary progress here and there, but that’s not a change in human morality. Inside we are all exactly the same as we have ever been and will always be until we extinguish ourselves soon enough. To believe otherwise is just a story you tell yourself to sleep at night.”
― Lily King, Heart the Lover

“then her arms becoming branches and her feet roots.”
― Lily King, Heart the Lover

“We kissed. But I didn’t kiss her properly as I should have”
― Lily King, Heart the Lover

“Othello places his trust in Iago”
― Lily King, Heart the Lover