Love Redeemed Quotes

“I didn’t understand love, so I certainly didn’t love myself enough; I’d only functioned in survival. Survival was easy because when you fight to survive the only person you have to consider is yourself.”
― Love Belvin, Love Redeemed

“Love is not control. Love is willfully given and received. Love does not rush people who are broken. It’s patient and kind and long suffering.”
― Love Belvin, Love Redeemed

“You don’t argue just to have a voice in a fight, you fight for a resolution. Love is yielding.”
― Love Belvin, Love Redeemed

“You can take a girl out of the hood…
You can even let her marry a multi-millionaire, but…”
― Love Belvin, Love Redeemed

“Wrong Jacobs, bitch”
― Love Belvin, Love Redeemed

“I’d only functioned in survival. Survival was easy because when you fight to survive the only person you have to consider is yourself.”
― Love Belvin, Love Redeemed

“I wanted you to know ‘dat pain ain’t black and white. Sometimes it comes with too many colors.”
― Love Belvin, Love Redeemed

“It is only when the essence of you changes as a result of his lack of commitment should you consider leaving.”
― Love Belvin, Love Redeemed

“The ideal answer is, you will be whatever he needs you to be in the moment he needs it.” “That’s a tall order.” “And such is marriage,” she quickly returns. “See, many women…and men don’t understand the totality of commitment and how in marriage, it should mimic God’s commitment to you. Your devotion to Azmir should not be conditional or given in portions that you feel he ‘deserves.’” She uses air quotations. “It also shouldn’t be based upon his commitment to you. This isn’t a game of quid pro quo. Your attitude walking into this institution should be decided, firm, and maintained until either he dies, you die, or his behavior becomes so reckless that it negatively alters the core of who you are. You know…abuse of any form, a severely chronic addiction, or habitual adultery.” Is”
― Love Belvin, Love Redeemed

“That woman brings me both pleasure and pain. The weird thing is feeling a rush of pleasure even in the midst of pain, because it means that no matter how fucked up I feel, or how scared I am at the prospect of losing her, there is still some pleasure in having been connected to her.”
― Love Belvin, Love Redeemed

“When I land my first uppercut into her face as her upper torso is bowed before me, I fade to black. In other words, I beat the living hell out of Dawn Taylor with no consideration of consequence.”
― Love Belvin, Love Redeemed

“Dawn looks very sensual, holding a petite porcelain teacup to her face, barely hiding that crafty smile. I want to break it, so I do—the smile and the cup.”
― Love Belvin, Love Redeemed