Merle Shain

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise, we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.

I hope you find a love. Your own designs of love.

There is no remedy for love, but to love more.

I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.

I miss the thought of a forever, you and me. But all you’re missing is my body.

Love, though said to be afflicted with blindness, is a vigilant watchman.

Everything is clearer when you’re in love.

O ’tis love, ’tis love, ’tis love that makes the world go round!

To live is like to love – all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

To me, obligation is not love. Letting someone be open, honest and free – that’s love. It’s got to come natural and it’s got to be real.

It’s important to remember where you came from; it’s the easiest way to locate where you are.

Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.

Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.

Doctoring her seemed to her as absurd as putting together the pieces of a broken vase. Her heart was broken. Why would they try to cure her with pills and powders?

Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.