Gabrielle Zevin Quotes

Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice.

Love is worth the sum of itself, and nothing more.

I would have to say the person with whom I am most in love is definitely my son, Everly Bear. Although I'm his dad, I'm also his friend.

Falling in love is the best way to kill your heart because then it's not yours anymore. It's laid in a coffin, waiting to be cremated.

My dad never decided what he wanted to do; at times he fought in the army, was a teacher, a boxer, a light engineer, and a then a publican. My mum was a traditional housewife and mother. They showed my brother and I unconditional love.

Love is love's reward.

Genuine and true love is so rare that when you encounter it in any form, it's a wonderful thing, to be utterly cherished in whatever form it takes.

I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.

My mom and dad gave their kids the greatest gift of all - the gift of unconditional love. They cared deeply about who we would be, and much less about what we would do.

If my love is without sacrifice, it is selfish. Such a love is barter, for there is exchange of love and devotion in return for something. It is conditional love.

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Ever since I was born, Daddy has been the best father you could ever imagine. And I just want to say that I love him so much.

Love is never wasted, even if it is not reciprocated.

No love is ever wasted. Its worth does not lie in reciprocity.

I think that love is very important and exists in many forms for all of us.

You've taught me that we're all needed, even those who sometimes think we're worthless, plain and dull. If we love and allow ourselves to be loved...well, a person who loves is the most precious thing in the world, worth all the fortunes that ever were. That's what you've taught me, fur face,and because of you I'll never be the same.

Love is never free ... It is the most expensive emotion we have.

You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.

I believe that the experience of love is the most human and humanizing act that it is given to man to enjoy and that it, like reason, makes no sense if conceived in a partial way.

Whatever the question, love is the answer.

Love is fine for singing about and love songs are good to listen to, sometimes even to dance to. But when we need food for our stomachs and clothes for our backs, love is nothing. Ah my lady, the last man any woman should think of marrying is the man she loves.

We would do well to ponder the realization that love is the most potent source of power.

The violence we do to ourselves in order to remain faithful to the one we love is hardly better than an act of infidelity.

Love isn't like money--the more you give away the more you get back, and the more you have to give.

To love is to be delighted by the happiness of someone, or to experience pleasure upon the happiness of another. I define this as true love.