To Love and to Loathe Quotes

“I think I love Jeremy,” she said quietly, forcing herself to state the words simply, without hesitation. “I’ve no idea why,” she added, unable to help herself, “considering he’s vain and maddening and I can barely converse with him without wanting to stab him with a fork, but apparently that is what love looks like for me. And,” she added, her mind lingering on the look in his eye when he gazed at her sometimes, as though marveling at her very existence, “I think he might love me, too—though, being a man, I expect he’s too dense to realize it.”
― Martha Waters, To Love and to Loathe

“Because I love you,” he said, the words coming out of him in a rush. “Because you were brave yesterday, and I was an ass, and you deserve better. Because I was afraid to tell you how I felt, I was afraid I couldn’t be the person you think you see in me—but you deserve someone who isn’t afraid. Because I’ve spent the past six years trying not to think about David, about all the ways that I’m not measuring up to him, about all the ways I’m still angry with him—and you’ve made me realize it’s all right. I feel like… like Jeremy again when I’m around you. And it feels like that’s enough.”
― Martha Waters, To Love and to Loathe

“You think you’re fooling everyone when you use that tone,” she said, crossing her arms—regrettably—over her chest. “But just so you know, you’re not fooling me. You’re more than a charming rake, Jeremy, and you’ll realize soon enough that you’re not fooling yourself, either. But don’t expect me to wait around for that moment to arrive.”
― Martha Waters, To Love and to Loathe

“It was impossible to put into words the sense of stillness and calm she achieved when seated before a canvas, and any attempt on her part to articulate this made her feel frustrated and fraudulent.”
― Martha Waters, To Love and to Loathe

“Notre relation a réveillé des sentiments en moi que je ne m'étais plus autorisé à éprouver. Aimer quelqu'un, c'est dangereux. Je l'ai appris à mes dépens.”
― Martha Waters, To Love and to Loathe

“Je commence à penser que si on rencontre quelqu'un qui en vaut la peine, alors il mérite qu'on prenne des risques pour lui”
― Martha Waters, To Love and to Loathe

“Vous pourriez cependant considérer que certaines choses valent le risque encouru”
― Martha Waters, To Love and to Loathe

“J'ai découvert récemment que plus on nie avoir des sentiments profonds pour quelqu'un, plus la probabilité qu'ils existent est grande”
― Martha Waters, To Love and to Loathe

“Vous vous chamaillez parce que vous vous ressemblez trop. Chacun se voit dans l'autre comme un miroir.”
― Martha Waters, To Love and to Loathe

“Une femme occupée ne s'attardait pas sur les baisers”
― Martha Waters, To Love and to Loathe

“Love can exist without marriage, just as much as the opposite is true. I promise you, I’m quite certainly in love with Sutton, and we’ll never be married,” Lady Helen said. “It seems to me that there is a fair amount of feeling between you and Lord Willingham, even if you never marry.”
― Martha Waters, To Love and to Loathe

“Diana Bourne was only eighteen, but she knew one thing already: men were fools.”
― Martha Waters, To Love and to Loathe

“She [Diana] trailed off, at a loss to explain the complex whirlwind of emotions that had taken up residence within her without her consent. That was the trouble with feelings--they so rarely appeared when it was convenient, and even more rarely did they appear in a desirable configuration. It was one of the many reasons she had done her best to protect herself against them...”
― Martha Waters, To Love and to Loathe

“...as any lady knows, a well-tied cravat is nothing to take lightly.”
― Martha Waters, To Love and to Loathe

“Diana did not care for dogs--too noisy, too energetic, and too smelly. She rather liked the idea of acquiring a cat at some point, though--she admired their lazy grace, as well as their ability to force everyone around them to do their bidding. It was a skill she was constantly trying to hone in herself.”
― Martha Waters, To Love and to Loathe