Why do people read romance novels and watch romance films, when actual love is so much more than what's in them? Your love is ten times more genuine, more touching than any cliché love story on the big screen. I've never been a fan of movies like Love Actually or A Walk To Remember. The romance flick I adore the most has got to be Before Sunrise.
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-Neil Gaiman, Rose Walker-The Sandman Series in The Kindly Ones
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- Carolly Erickson, The Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette
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That's better. That's something I know about. We can talk about that.
Falling in love, I said. Falling into it, we all did then, one way or another. How could he have made such light of it? Sneered even. As if it was trivial for us, a frill, a whim. It was the central thing; it was the way you understood yourself; if it never happened to you, not ever, you would be like a mutant, a creature from outer space. Everyone knew that.
Falling in love, we said; I fell for him. We were falling women. We believed in it, this downward motion: so lovely, like flying, and yet at the same time so dire, so extreme, so unlikely. God is love, they said once, but we reversed that, and love, like Heaven, was always around the corner. The more difficult it was to love the particular man beside us, the more we believed in Love, abstract and total. We were waiting, always, for the incarnation. That word, made flesh ( ... )
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- C.S. Lewis
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"A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left." - Marilyn Monroe
That's something I don't believe but occasionally go through phases of "I wish I could adopt that philosophy".
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Wise people never get happiness if they don't allow themselves to be fools in love.
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Actually, Love is God. That in all :/
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