Andrew Sean Greer Quotes

It is a lot easier to prove that you don't love someone than it is to prove that you do, but one of the best 'proofs' I know is the desire to devote time to the person with no expectation of any sort of compensation, including gratitude, in return.

His love for her was a gift he gave her daily, expecting nothing in return. He walked at her side, his love for her a torch to guide her footsteps along the dark path she walked.

You know it's love when you want to give joy and damn the consequences.

Great lovers have made great sacrifices.

The maker of the stars would rather die for you than live without you. And that is a fact. So if you need to brag, brag about that.

It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know.

Love demands all, and has a right to all.

Is it really worth dying for the person you love?

True love is selfless. It is prepared to sacrifice.

My love for the child asleep in the crib, the child's need for me, for my vigilance, had made my life valuable in a way that even the most abundantly offered love, my parents', my brother's, even Tom's, had failed to do. Love was required of me now--to be given, not merely to be sought and returned.

Didn’t understand love? Was she crazy? If she only knew what I’d sacrificed for Dimitri, what I’d done to be where I was now . . . all for love. She was the one who couldn’t understand. Love wasn’t a fling in a back room at a party. It was something you lived and died for.

Love... love... love, never counting the cost.

We were willing to do so much for the people we loved, even if it meant hurting ourselves. Maybe that, in the end, was what love- all kinds- was really about.

When I do fall in love, I'll go to the ends of the earth for that person. I'd lay down on a carpet of nails for the person I love.

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

I want some day to be able to love with the same intensity and unselfishness that parents love their children with.

There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.

When love is at its best, one loves so much that he cannot forget.

Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.

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

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

Love is not a volunteer thing.

People kill for love. They die for love.

Love wasn't put in your heart to stay. Love isn't love until you give it away.