Madeleine L'Engle Quotes

I think love is a huge factor in fiction and in real life. Is there a risk? Always. In fiction and in life.

I always say you have to be willing to get your heart broken.

I treat my relationships like marriages. The ceremony isn't that important to me.

If you want to have a relationship, at some point you have to let yourself get caught. That's what I did. I got caught.

I think we take it for granted that if you are with your husband after 30 years, then he is the love of your life.

Marriage is a risk; I think it's a great and glorious risk, as long as you embark on the adventure in the same spirit.

Marriage isn't something you agree to do one day, and if things don't go right, then it's over.

In love, we have to dare everything if we really love.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

I believe a lot in monogamy, let me tell you.

I honestly believe you can never tell if a relationship is going to last. In my own marriage, which is going on 14 years, I don't think of it as 'I'm going to be with this person forever.' Instead, I think of more like, 'I'll probably be with this person for the next six weeks. Then I'll re-evaluate.'

I've never fallen in love right off the bat. I get scared to say I love you too soon because it means so much. It means you're not seeing an end to things.

It's always a leap of faith when you get involved with somebody.

Daring to love someone is something we all do.

When you love someone, they have a piece of you, one of the most important pieces of you, and that's your heart. And when you decide to love freely and love hard - like I do myself - that's a risk that you're taking - getting hurt.

Love doesn't mean anything if you're not willing to make a commitment, and you have to think not only about what you want, but about what he wants. Not just now, but in the future.

It's more like you meet someone, and you fall in love, and you hope that that person is the one - and then at some point, you have to put down your chips. You just have to make a commitment and hope that you're right.

in all the years we spend together, I never once regretted the fact that I had chosen her and that she had chosen me as well.

If you love someone and you choose to spend the rest of your life with that person, that's your partner in every way.

I am asking you to marry me because I love you,” he said, “because I cannot imagine living my life without you. I want to see your face in the morning, and then at night, and a hundred times in between. I want to grow old with you, I want to laugh with you, and I want to sigh to my friends about how managing you are, all the while secretly knowing I am the luckiest man in town.” “What?” she demanded. He shrugged. “A man’s got to keep up appearances. I’ll be universally detested if everyone realizes how perfect you are.

He reached across and fingered the pendant; I felt it move against my skin. "Willow, look," He said. "We haven't talked much about what might happen, but...you know that I always want to be with you, right? I mean--no matter what." And I had known it; I felt it every time he held me--but even so, actually hearing the words made my heart catch. "I want that, too," I said. "Always, Alex.

Love in marriage is more than just a feeling or an emotion; it is a choice.

The first thing is love: love deeply. If you have been with a person for a few years, in deep love, and you have experienced all the joys and all the miseries, and still you decide to be with the person, then marriage is okay. Because marriage is only a legal arrangement, it cannot make anything more beautiful than it is. It can only make it ugly, it cannot beautify it. Once it is settled legally, once you start taking each other for granted, things will start going down rather than rising high.

love at any age takes everything you've got.

Love meant jumping off a cliff and trusting that a certain person would be there to catch you at the bottom.