Love Stories Quotes

“The only cure for grief is to grieve. The only cure for hurt is to hurt. Every tear is a tribute. Every tear is a memory, every memory is a treasure.”
― Trent Dalton, Love Stories

“Love is commitment,' Zak says. 'I don't just mean commitment to a person, I mean commitment to making space for someone in your life and letting them grow and change inside that space and still loving them.”
― Trent Dalton, Love Stories

“Love breeds love. Big or little, every gesture of love is as worthy and important as another. And maybe the small is actually not so small after all. Sometimes those little gestures are just as life-saving.”
― Trent Dalton, Love Stories

“The analogy might be that love is like the sun. We cannot look directly at it, but we see our world because of it, and experience its many life-sustaining functions. Essentially, the “teleological” definitions of love point to it nurturing, healing and transforming humans (and societies) into the best versions of themselves”
― Trent Dalton, Love Stories

“Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.”
― Trent Dalton, Love Stories

“Love is knowing when you've come home.”
― Trent Dalton, Love Stories

“Sometimes true love is not saying a single word. Just being there. Sometimes that's the greatest love we can bring someone. Just be quite. Just shut the fuck up and be there.”
― Trent Dalton, Love Stories

“I believe in dancing badly, farting politely, kissing sloppily, hoping realistically, grieving openly, fishing silently, dreaming wildly, making up quickly, making love slowly, writing daily, whistling hourly, weeping freely, singing loudly, screaming internally, thanking everybody and failing at least once a week. I believe it is good to whisper to plants as long as nobody gets hurt.”
― Trent Dalton, Love Stories

“The only cure for grief is to grieve. The only cure for hurt is to hurt. Every tear is a tribute. Every tear is a memory, every memory a treasure. Cry buckets and then when your bucket is full, poor your collective tears over your garden flowers and watch them bloom in all the sunrises of your grieving.”
― Trent Dalton, Love Stories

“Three seconds. A whole world turning in three-second life-units that build upon themselves to form a truly wondrous twenty-four-hour miracle that we so insufficiently call 'Wednesday'.”
― Trent Dalton, Love Stories

“And then time did what it does so gracefully - it ticked forward.”
― Trent Dalton, Love Stories

“She realises now that grief is the price she will willingly pay to have loved someone so deeply.”
― Trent Dalton, Love Stories

“You're on the low side of love but that's still love all the same. Maybe you're lucky to have held a kind of love that makes you feel so low. Some folks feel no side of love at all.”
― Trent Dalton, Love Stories

“It feels like unrequited love, but it's not because of someone not loving me. It's that they're not here anymore. It's unrequited, but it's not painful in the sense that I love someone and they don't love me back. I love someone, I just can't be with him because he's not here anymore.”
― Trent Dalton, Love Stories

“She's beautiful, Graeme,' I say.
'I know,' he says, warmly and softly, gently nodding his head, more tears welling in his broken eyes. 'I don't have to see her to know that.”
― Trent Dalton, Love Stories

“Love is helping others,’ he says. ‘You see someone sad, you lift them up. Buy ’em a cup of coffee. That’s what I do. Don’t leave someone at square one.”
― Trent Dalton, Love Stories

“Love is a river. Love is a mountain. Love makes you a mountaineer.”
― Trent Dalton, Love Stories

“Love is lifting your heart up for the ones you love.”
― Trent Dalton, Love Stories

“Sometimes you don’t have to say anything, you can just feel,”
― Trent Dalton, Love Stories

“Love is the privilege of being with someone long enough that you’re gradually refining the truths that you tell each other. You feel safe enough to keep showing more and more of yourself to each other.”
― Trent Dalton, Love Stories

“you have a lot of love in your life, if you put a lot of love out into the world, then love follows you around,’ he says, with a knowing smile. ‘It follows.”
― Trent Dalton, Love Stories

“I believe in welfare, taxes, death, fate, chance, destiny, happenstance, dumb luck, talking, smelling, seeing, touching, hearing, listening, belonging, holding on, letting go and letting rip. I believe white silk slips look good on anyone and I believe in love.”
― Trent Dalton, Love Stories

“I believe in standing your ground, running for your life, working, trying, attempting, struggling, losing, healing, winning, ending and always beginning.”
― Trent Dalton, Love Stories

“I believe in dancing badly, farting politely, kissing sloppily, hoping realistically, grieving openly, fishing silently, dreaming wildly, making up quickly, making love slowly, writing daily, whistling hourly, weeping freely, singing loudly, screaming internally, thanking everybody and failing at least once a week.”
― Trent Dalton, Love Stories

“someone long enough that you’re gradually refining the truths that you tell each other. You feel safe enough to keep showing more and more of yourself to each other. To me, that’s what love is. It’s not the fireworks and the rainbows and the butterflies. We all keep pieces to ourselves. True love is showing up as yourself.’ And now I know what love is:”
― Trent Dalton, Love Stories

“To love someone was to step to the precarious edge of hating them, too.”
― Trent Dalton, Love Stories

“Norm was a member of an exclusive cheap living room club of rapier-witted conversationalists and coffee guzzlers who called themselves the Dawn-Busting Phantoms. ‘The deal with being a member of the Dawn-Busting Phantoms was that you talked all night at someone’s house and you weren’t allowed to go home until the break of dawn.”
― Trent Dalton, Love Stories

“The bloody pool of War has its ripples.
Gordon had no doubt that the blood-pool ripples of war and coming home from war stretched for the next 80 years through my family, sure as they stretched through 80 years of Australian domestic and cultural and social life, generation to generation, husband to wife, father to daughter, father to son.”
― Trent Dalton, Love Stories

“You can’t own love love can be given and love can be received, but it can’t be owned. It can be treasured and it can be worshipped and it can be kept inside the steel safe inside your heart, but it still can’t be owned. Someone can choose to give you their love, but they can choose to take it away, too. They can do that because that love belongs to them. And that’s what makes it the greatest gift. That’s why we must treasure the love we are given for as long as we are given it. It’s a gift that needs our work and our time and our care. If we get to care for and carry that gift for as long as we live, then right on donkey Kong! Please don’t think for a second that it’s yours to own, Pat Malone.”
― Trent Dalton, Love Stories

“There are many beautiful Auslan videos online showing how to sign various words & phrases, none more beautiful than the one with the boy in the big blue woolly jumper saying, 'I love you.' Point your forefinger at your chest, form a cross with your forearms while placing your palms over your heart, then point your forefinger at the person you love: I love you.”
― Trent Dalton, Love Stories