Juliet Marillier Quotes

Yes, I was a fool, but I was in love, and though I was suffering the greatest misery I had ever known I would not have had it otherwise for all the riches of Barsoom. Such is love, and such are lovers wherever love is known.

Lust is about satisfaction. Love is about sacrificing, serving, surrendering, sharing, supporting, and even suffering for others. Most love songs are actually lust songs.

Ah! What pleasure it must be to a woman to suffer for the one she loves!

Love is not love that wounded bleeds And bleeding sullies slow. Come death within my hands and I Unto my love will go.

Every little girl knows about love. It is only her capacity to suffer because of it that increases.

Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.

We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.

In fiction, as in real life, love might inspire acts that are at best foolish and at worst life-threatening, but in the best romances, love is the final, secret ingredient that turns mere mortals into heroes and heroines.

You shouldn't have to pay for your love with your bones and your flesh.

Love always, in one way or another, means pain as well as joy.

Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.

Romantic love is painful.

My sweetheart! When I think of you, it's as if I'm holding some healing balm to my sick soul, and although i suffer for you, i find that even suffering for you is easy.

Love is an incurable malady like those pathetic states in which rheumatism affords the sufferer a brief respite only to be replaced by epileptiform headaches.

what choice have I? I cannot live without you, but I will not destroy your soul." -Edward Cullen

If you love, you will suffer. The only way to protect yourself against suffering is to protect yourself against love - and that is the greatest suffering of all, loneliness.

What is the "extraordinary"? It is the love of Jesus Christ himself, love that goes to the cross in suffering obedience.

The most precious gift you can bring to your lover is your suffering.

Love is joy. Don't convince yourself that suffering is a part of it.

Love, known to the person by whom it is inspired, becomes more bearable.

I want to suffer so that I may love.

When I saw my wife again standing by the tracks as the train came in by the piled logs at the station, I wished I had died before I had ever loved anyone but her.

Your life might be easier if you were. A fool for love is happier than a Dog with a heart that's all leather.