“For this is one of the miracles of love; it gives — to both, but perhaps especially to the woman — a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.”
– C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
“For this is one of the miracles of love; it gives — to both, but perhaps especially to the woman — a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.”
– C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
“Our interactions with one another reflect a dance between love and fear.”
– Ram Dass
“It will be the kiss by which all others in your life will be judged… and found wanting.”
– Anthony Hopkins
“But nearly all of the people I have ever met in this western society in which I live would agree to the general proposition that we need this life of practical romance; the combination of something that is strange with something that is secure.”
– G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
“No matter how much he talked, she never answered him, but he knew she was still there. He knew it was like the soldiers he had read about. They would have an arm or a leg blown off, and for days, even weeks after it happened, they could still feel the arm itching, the leg itching, the mother calling.”
– Pat Cunningham Devoto, Out of the Night That Covers Me