Elizabeth George Quotes

it was love, of course, though I didn't know it then and Finn was both its subject and object. He accepted love instinctively, without responsibility or conditions, like a wild thing glimpsed through trees.

If you forgive people enough you belong to them, and they to you, whether either person likes it or not squatter's rights of the heart.

God invented love, and it is therefore perfect, and dogs are better at celebrating this perfection than we are. When in doubt as to how we should feel, we could do far worse than trying to live life like the dogs.

I'm not really sure why. But... do you stop loving someone just because they betray you? I don't think so. That's what makes the betrayal hurt so much - pain, frustration, anger... and I still loved her. I still do.

Little-boy love...the cleanest pain I've ever known. Love without desire, conditions, or limits - a pure and radiant glow in the heart that could make me giddy and sad and glorious all at once. Where does it go? Why, in all their experiments, did the Magi never try to capture that purity in a bottle? Perhaps they couldn't.

The heart of Jesus is compassionate and understanding. It has felt the sting of ingratitude, and when my heart suffers from that same offense, I can turn to him, and he understands my feelings.

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.

You can't always trust people with your heart, but you should still love anyway. That's what I would say.

Kids love you unconditionally.

'Haaye ve' is special to me because it is about unconditional love. The song is that when you love someone you can take the most drastic step for that person.

If you've got love for me, then I'm gonna have love for you, period.

I was hurt so deep that I made up my mind never to hurt anybody else, no matter what. I never made jokes about anybody's big ears, their stut-terin', or about them bein' off their nut.

We're taught to expect unconditional love from our parents, but I think it is more the gift our children give us. It's they who love us helplessly, no matter what or who we are.

I felt a splinter of guilt wedge into my heart. Charlotte had hurt me; in return, I'd hurt Rob. Maybe that's what we do to the people we love: take shots in the dark and realize too late we've wounded the people we're trying to protect.

This is an hour of history that troubles our minds and hurts our hearts.

He stared at her fists and at her face and said with upset incredulity, "You promised me you would forgive me-" "Forgive you,"Tatiana hissed through her teeth, tears streaming down her face, "for your brave and indifferent face, Alexander!" She groaned in pain. "Not for your brave and indifferent heart.

My forgiving you doesn't make my heart hurt less. It takes awhile to heal.

His heart hurt with the wanting of it, the hurt no less painful for being difficult to explain.

Perhaps love's greatest gift--that it is indeed unconditional--is also its greatest curse.

The deepest cry of the human heart is to be loved without condition, no matter what. The gospel of grace announces that you are.

When two people love each other as we do, no one can come between them, no one," I said, amazed at the words I was uttering without preparation. "Lovers like us, because they know that nothing can destroy their love, even on the worst days, even when they are heedlessly hurting each other in the cruelest , most deceitful ways, still carry in their hearts a consolation that never abandons them." (p.191)

don't take many words to break a fragile heart!

Was this love? Because it hurt. It was like a bit of glass stuck somewhere important--his heart or his head, and it was throbbing.

It's nice sometimes to open up the heart a little and let some hurt come in. It proves you're still alive.

Her heart's too hurt...you frightened her. And she's such a straight lady--she sees shame where some of us just see people.