Dan Savage Quotes

Loving's pretty easy. It's letting someone love you that's hard.

Love is a fault; so be it.

You can never know anyone as completely as you want. But that’s okay, love is better.

We're all amateurs when it comes to love. Don't be too hard on each other.

There comes a point when you just love someone. Not because they're good, or bad, or anything really. You just love them. It doesn't mean you'll be together forever. It doesn't mean you won't hurt each other. It just mean you love them. Sometimes in spite of who they are, and sometimes because of who they are. And you know that they love you, sometimes because of who you are, and sometimes in spite of it.

In life, you have to take the pace that love goes. You don't force it. You just don't force love, you don't force falling in love, you don't force being in love - you just become. I don't know how to say that in English, but you just feel it.

Trouble is part of your life - if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.

With love, you should go ahead and take the risk of getting hurt because love is an amazing feeling.

My only hope to receive love is to let you see who I am, then I may believe you.

Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.

I love, but I am not entirely sure how to be loved: how to be seen and known for the utterly flawed woman I am. It demands surrender. It demands acknowledging that I am not perfect, but perhaps I deserve affection anyway.

When you are really in love, you become vulnerable, and insecurities come out of nowhere.

I love my job; I love the world that it is. But I don't want someone who is just in love with that world. I want to be with someone who is in love with me, warts and all.

At the end of the day, you know, love does not happen between two perfect people as much as we would wish.

We're not trying to make you less of a man. We just want you to love us as deeply and as wholesomely and as fully as we love you.

Lie beside me. Let me see the division of your pores. Let me see the web of scars made by your family's claws and you their furniture. Let me see the wounds that they denied. The battle ground of family life that has been your body. Let me see the bruised red lines that signal their encampment. Let me see the routed place where they are gone. Lie beside me and let the seeing be healing. No need to hide. No need for either darkness or light. Let me see you as you are.

I'd rather be screwed up with you than smooth with anybody else.

When you really love someone, you must accept their part of mystery. And that’s why you love them.

I let down my guard and my heart was as good as gone.

Isn't falling in love always the fullest life?

Love is too precious to be ashamed of.

She was getting used to his rhythms and his moods, recognizing the quiet signals that telegraphed who he was. Good and bad, strengths and faults, he was hers forever. As she pulled into the driveway, she spotted Logan coming down the steps from the house, and she waved. She was his forever, too—imperfect as she was. Take it or leave it, she thought. She was who she was. As Logan walked toward her, he smiled as if reading her mind and opened his arms.

He taught us the art of unqualified love. How to give it, how to accept it. Where there is that, most other pieces fall into place.

It's not a bad Thing to fall in Love.

But I don't fit. Your family hates me. I make your life difficult." That's where she was wrong. "No, You're my family. And as for making my life difficult, you, Blaire Wynn, make my life complete.