When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You know that your name is safe in their mouth.
-Jess C. Scott
"The Intern"
Quotations
Love
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Absence from whom we love is worse than death.
-William Cowper
When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, is called love.
-Socrates
Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
-Mark Twain
It is not your love that sustains the marriage,
but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love.
-Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"Letters and Papers from Prison"
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
-Helen Keller
There lives at least one being who can never change - one being who would be content to devote his whole existence to your happiness - who lives but in your eyes-who breathes but in your smiles, who bears the heavy burden of life itself only for you.
-Charles Dickens
Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.
-Søren Kierkegaard
When I was in the military they gave me a medal for killing two men and a discharge for loving one.
-Leonard Matlovich "Epitaph of Leonard. P. Matlovich, 1988"
