Lisa See Quotes

What you call love does not sound very beautiful.

When you meet someone you love, whether or not they love you back, something occurs in you that makes you want to improve yourself.

Only lovers know the value and magnanimity of truth.

No one has ever known me as clearly as you. No one has ever shown me that love allows everything. Not pretty or safe or easy but something I never knew. Love within reason, that isn't love and I learned that from you.

I have a love in my life. It makes me stronger than anything you can imagine.

Love - true love - is a precious thing. It is painful, uncomfortable, makes fools of us all, but it is what breathes meaning and color and purpose into our lives.

Love will come find you, just to remind you of who you are.

Mutual love, the crown of all our bliss.

Have I ever been in love? Really in love? And why is it that with each new guy I think I'm more in love with him than the last?

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplacable being.

Most of us fall in love with someone's persona and spend the next three to five years discovering who that person really is. If you can stay connected through that process of raw vulnerability, I think you have a shot at the prize of knowing and accepting another human being for who and what they really are after years of highs and lows.

I was 29 and I really fell in love, I think, for the first time. I was vulnerable in a way I didn't think I could be.

I will always believe in love, but my idea has changed from what I've always thought.

One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul.

Love is just such a crucial, wonderful thing, and if you are lucky enough to find somebody who genuinely loves you, grab that person and hold on to that person, and nothing else matters.

But what is after all the happiness of mere power? There is a greater happiness possible than to be lord of heaven and earth; that is the happiness of being truly loved.

Some of the reason why we marry the wrong people is that we don't really understand ourselves.

I don't believe I've ever truly been in love because I don't believe that I've known myself well enough in the past to allow someone to love me.

When I met Jo Wilder, I fell crazy in love and never thought about homosexuality. And I thought, 'Well, this is what I'm supposed to be doing. This is life.'

In love, each man is his own personal challenge.

I believe that when you find love, you hold on to it and cherish it because there is nothing finer and it may never come again.

I do love you and what else matters but that

There are a lot of people who go their whole lives without truly knowing what love is, or ever experiencing that.

I've been loved in life, but all that matters now is that I'm loved by you." -Eva