Lisa Unger Quotes

Because love was not the answer to every question. Because real love meant sacrifice. Sometimes love means letting go.

To love someone enough to let them go, you had to let them go forever or you did not love them that much.

If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.

In cinema, the hero is not the one who sacrifices their body always, but the person who sacrifices their heart. They allow their heart to break so everyone else can stay intact.

When you love someone and care about them, you want what's best for them, and it's always the hardest thing to realize maybe you aren't what's best for them, how hard you try.

Thank you for loving me enough to let me go.

Yet leave me not; yet, if thou wilt, be free; love me no more, but love my love of thee.

I can't love you unless I give you up.

I will hate the man you choose because he isn't me, and love him if he makes you smile.

I saw the way she was looking at you, and I knew that she still loved you. More than that, I know she always will. It breaks my heart, but you know what? I'm still in love with her, and to me that means that I want nothing more than for her to be happy in life. I want that more than anything. It's all I've ever wanted for her.

I love her. I need her. I gave away everything I had for her. I just wanted her to know me.

Mature love is loving, not being loved.

And I guess I realized at that moment that I really did love her. Because there was nothing to gain, and that didn't matter.

Losing you is most difficult for me, but the nature of my love for you is what matters. If it distorts into half-truth, then perhaps it is better not to love you. I must keep my mind but loose you.

Out of love, No regrets-- Though the goodness Be wasted forever. Out of love, No regrets-- Though the return Be never.

If you loved someone, really loved them, would you let them go?

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness.

Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.

To believe in love, to be ready to give up anything for it, to be willing to risk your life for it, is the ultimate tragedy.

You'll be a good parent when you're ready to no longer be selfish. Until I was about 35, it was all about me. I look back and I'm astonished at how I lived my life - it was totally self-involved.

I think many of my books, including 'Handle with Care,' including 'My Sister's Keeper,' circle back to how far are we willing to go for the people we love? I think love changes the way we think. It's the thing that takes you out of what your normal set of beliefs would be.

Dear is your heart and close your hand, I relinquish all to love's dysmorphic command.

Love is... never asking for more than you are prepared to give.

It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.