Kenneth Oppel Quotes

You can't just turn love on and off.

Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.

The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.

Movies can provide tear-inducing or comically-entertaining representations of love, but many agree that its deeper conflicting complexities often seem unfathomable.

Love that is not jealous is neither true nor pure.

When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?

If you wished to be loved, love.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

I think my understanding of different types of love has certainly deepened.

I love you if you love me.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Love is such an objective thing. I mean, I can say I love my family, or I love my Diet Coke. So I guess, in different ways, yeah, I do believe in love.

A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself.

Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.

We don't need to have somebody that's gonna make sure they pay for our market bills. It's like we have only one reason to love and that is for the real idea of love.

At first I assumed hate was the opposite of love. But it isn't. The opposite of love is indifference.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

I don't think you can hate anything that you know intimately. There is no fine line separating love from hate because there's a deep chasm separating love from hate.

We can't command our love, but we can our actions.

Love comes to everybody in many different ways. Attraction is always the first thing, no? But love must be more than that. It must be magic.

Love is such a powerful subject matter because it comes in so many different shapes and sizes. It's about timing, fate, failure, redemption.

Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.

We never love a person, but only qualities.

Love between two adults is always conditional. You can fall out of love because you are able to fall in love.