Gena Showalter Quotes

Love as distinct from "being in love" is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit.

It isn't possible to love and to part.

You've never been in love," she said. "You don't understand." "If being in love means giving up your freedom, not to mention your opportunities," Caitlin said, "Then I haven't missed anything.

If you have to ask yourself whether or not you love a girl or you love a boy, forget it. You don't.

Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go looking for it, and I think it can often be poisonous.

When passion and habit long lie in company it is only slowly and with incredulity that habit awakens to finds its companion fled, itself alone.

True love can exist only in freedom from possession.

It irritates the hell out of me but you can't buy love.

I have loved and been in love. There's a big difference.

"What is love?"; "The total absence of fear," said the Master; "What is it we fear?"; "Love," said the Master.

We can all begin freely—a slight preference is natural enough; but there are very few of us who have heart enough to be really in love without encouragement.

Sorrow is implicit in love as gravitation is implicit in mass.

I think I can live without you, but it won't be any kind of life.

Sit with lovers and choose their state. Do not stay long with those who are not living in the heart.

For love to flourish there has to be trust. Promises don’t matter as much as personal choice.

Find something you're passionate about and just love. Passion is really gender neutralizing.

I can’t leave now. I like her too much. There, I said it. But I won’t say it again.

Of what avail is my love if it be only so long as I trust my friend?

It is enough for me by day To walk the same bright earth with him; Enough that over us by night The same great roof of stars is dim. I do not hope to bind the wind Or set a fetter on the sea -- It is enough to feel his love Blow by like music over me.

Love needs two things: it has to be rooted in freedom and it has to know the art of trust.

Love is giving, marriage is buying and selling. You can't put love into a contract.

And while I was talking, the idea of actually losing Peeta hit me again and I realized how much I don't want him to die. And it's not about the sponsors. And it's not about what will happen when we get home. And it's not just that I don't want to be alone. It's him. I do not want to lose the boy with the bread.

True love usually results in a hostage situation.

You have the rest of your life to be married. Enjoy falling in love. When girls get caught up in the timeline, it becomes more about the wedding than the marriage. You should be with someone with whom you could elope this weekend and be happy.

You dinna need to understand me, Sassenach," he said quietly. "So long as you love me.