The Love Proof Quotes

“There isn't anyone you couldn't love once you've heard their story.”
― Madeleine Henry, The Love Proof

“Alice’s question in Wonderland, “How long is forever?” and the White Rabbit’s response, “Sometimes, just one second.”
― Madeleine Henry, The Love Proof

“Everything Sophie read was delicious, electric mental sugar, feeding a high. She felt as if she were learning a new language: the wordless way that the world communicated. All she had to do was pay attention. (page 28)”
― Madeleine Henry, The Love Proof

“But we grow up and start to see things the way we expect. We stop questioning, listening, but I think the universe is always talking to us: through symbols, our guts, or feelings we can't explain.”
― Madeleine Henry, The Love Proof

“The least understood, most important thing in the world is love.”
― Madeleine Henry, The Love Proof

“Isabel had seen it happen to geniuses at her own high school, at Yale, and at NASA. Their talent for problem-solving brought them attention, and to some, that felt like love. So they threw themselves into their careers, leading more and more solitary lives, and taking on bigger and bigger professional challenges until--on the other side of that breakthrough--there was no one waiting for them to come back home. The love they had poured into their work, expecting it to boomerang back, never came back.”
― Madeleine Henry, The Love Proof

“The best parts of life come from being connected.”
― Madeleine Henry, The Love Proof

“You're more aware than other people, but what you're feeling is the same. That's the way you've always been. Other people feel what you're going through; you just experience it...more.”
― Madeleine Henry, The Love Proof

“A lot of people think science is sterile ... and heartless and boring, but not me. I've always had this feeling that there are eyes in everything that the world is alive down to the atom. But we grow up and start to see things the way we expect. We stop questioning, listening, but I think the universe is always talking to us: through symbols, our guts, or feelings we can't explain. I want to know as much as I can, especially about the big building blocks of reality.”
― Madeleine Henry, The Love Proof

“The most valuable insight of my life has been that the best use of time is to love. It's not a sophisticated idea, and that's exactly the point. People overvalue intellect. Life should be lived from the heart ... So, whenever I have the choice, I should spend my time with other people. Even if that means I leave less of a mark on the world at large.”
― Madeleine Henry, The Love Proof

“That there's something about weakness we all respond to. Imperfection, flaws. Across animals.”
― Madeleine Henry, The Love Proof

“School only trains your mind, and that's such a small part of who you are...You're so much more. Your heart and soul, Sophie. We need to nourish the whole you as much as your brain.”
― Madeleine Henry, The Love Proof

“Maybe the problem was that no one was impressive up close.”
― Madeleine Henry, The Love Proof

“That might sound strange, coming from me. I know how I'm seen. I'll be remembered for my theorem, for my mind. People don't see my greatest gift was really...my heart.”
― Madeleine Henry, The Love Proof

“In undergrad, I started to care more about my relationship--well, one in particular--and people thought I wasn't reaching my potential. I never liked how that was framed, as if it's a trade-off between love and work. Love enhances everything.”
― Madeleine Henry, The Love Proof

“When you're balanced, people look down on you. You get judged when you care about relationships as much as work. Nobody says that, but you can tell. It's not something that people here really respect.”
― Madeleine Henry, The Love Proof