Anne Enright Quotes

some people fall in love over and over again while some people can only do it once.

I was never a great amorist, though I have loved several people very deeply.

As you go through life you realize that the love that you have for the people in your life and their love for you is all that matters. It's really about how you regard them and how they regard you.

The great thing about getting older is that you get a chance to tell the people in your life who matter what they mean to you.

I will become an old, wrinkly lady one day and what will matter are my friends and my family and people who love me.

The people that matter to me the most are the people that are in my life. That's who I really learn from, and it's always a very personal kind of connection.

I think everybody goes through that, especially... being in love for the first time. Some people, they're lucky enough that that ends up being who they're with for the rest of their lives, and sometimes it doesn't work out.

But wouldn't it be lovely to watch two people fall in love?

Love is love, no matter who you fall in love with, love is love, it can be painful, it can be wonderful.

The first book we fall in love with shapes us every bit as much as the first person we fall in love with.

People fall in love in mysterious ways. Maybe it's all part of a plan.

People will always be interested in relationships, infidelity and sex and everything connected to things in their own lives.

The reason for living is to have great relationships, to have people you love and respect and who love and respect you.

It takes time for people to fall in love with you....but it’s inevitable

We are each the love of someone's life.

There are a lot of people who go their whole lives without truly knowing what love is, or ever experiencing that.

I went to the school and put it to William, particularly, that if you find someone you love in life, you must hang onto it, and look after it, and if you were lucky enough to find someone who loved you, then you must protect it.

People fall in love all the time. And it's not always with the right people. And it's not always reciprocated.

Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It's standing in love that matters.

What is family? They were the people who claimed you. In good, in bad, in parts or in whole, they were the ones who showed up, who stayed in there, regardless. It wasn't just about blood relations or shared chromosomes, but something wider, bigger. Cora was right - we had many families over time. Our family of origion, the family we created, as well as the gorups you moved thorugh while all of this was happening: friends, lovers, sometimes even strangers. None of them were perfect, and we couldn't expect them to be. You couldn't make any one person your world. The trick was to take what each could give you and build a world from it.

He'd never had to make the adjustments and compromises other people accepted early in their romantic careers; never had a chance to learn the lesson that Sarah taught him everyday--that beauty was only a part of it, and not even the most important part, that there were transactions between people that occurred on some mysterious level beneath the skin, or maybe even beyond the body.

When you get to my age, you’ll measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you. That’s the ultimate test of how you’ve lived your life.

I suppose middle-aged love is interesting for middle-aged people.

The bottom line is that we never fall for the people we're supposed to.

The richest treasure God has for you are the people in your life. Give thanks and don't take them for granted.