Patricia Briggs Quotes

I looked and looked at her, and I knew, as clearly as I know that I will die, that I loved her more than anything I had ever seen or imagined on earth. She was only the dead-leaf echo of the nymphet from long ago - but I loved her, this Lolita, pale and polluted and big with another man's child. She could fade and wither - I didn't care. I would still go mad with tenderness at the mere sight of her face.

Blind is his love, and best befits the dark.

Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing; A plant that with most cutting grows, Most barren with best using.

When you love someone so much that you are in pain when you are apart it ends up being destructive. I never want to be in that place again.

Yet it is awful to love a person who is a torture to you. And a fascinating person who loves you and won't hear of anything but your loving him and living right by his side through all eternity!

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

The second song is called 'Easy As Life,' which really describes the complete conflict of the whole story, her struggle of being in love with the enemy and also being in love with her people.

I think that sometimes love gets in the way of itself - you know, love interrupts itself. We want things so much that we sabotage them.

I think love is blind. You don't see it; you don't hear what people are saying or what you're saying. You don't see what you're doing. All you see is the person in front of you. That's it.

We always have relationships in our lives with people we've fallen in love with, who come back into our lives, and we fall in love with them again and go, 'I shouldn't be doing this,' but you can't stop it.

The punishment of those who have loved women too much is to love them always.

I love you as one loves certain dark things.

I knew I had fallen in love with Lolita forever; but I also knew she would not be forever Lolita.

Of one that lov'd not wisely but too well.

Love born of anxiety resembles a thorn shaped so that efforts to pull it out of one's flesh merely cause it to penetrate more deeply therein.

We had loved people we really shouldn't have loved and then married other people in order to forget our impossible loves, or we had once called out hello into the cauldron of the world and then run away before anyone could respond.

People get over love. They can live without it, they can move on. Love can be lost and found again. But that won't happen for me. I won't survive you, Eva.

Done so many evil things in the name of love, it's a crying shame. I never did see no fire that could put out a flame.

I think people do things all the time in the name of love that they shouldn't be doing - such is the nature of us.

This is the very ecstasy of love, whose violent property ordoes itself and leads the will to desperate undertakings.

Sometimes love not only lifts you to the ceiling, it also keeps your eyes there.

Of all devils let loose in the world there is no devil like devoted love.

I think that it’s fearless to fall for your best friend, even though he’s in love with someone else.

It's miles worse for you than that; I'm in love with your gamekeeper.

Nobody asks you to love the whole world, only to be honest, ehrlich. Don't have a loud mouth. The more you love people the more they'll mix you up. A child loves, a person respects. Respect is better than love.