Laurell K. Hamilton Quotes

If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love.

I couldn't love a woman who inspired me to be totally disinterested. If I fell in love with a woman for an artistic reason, or from the point of view of my work, I think it would rob her of something.

Real love is the love that sometimes arises after sensual pleasure: if it does, it is immortal; the other kind inevitably goes stale, for it lies in mere fantasy.

Psychologists maintain that the dizzying feeling of intense romantic love lasts only about 18 months to - at best - three years.

If one wants another only for some self-satisfaction, usually in the form of sensual pleasure, that wrong desire takes the form of lust rather than love.

Only lovers know the value and magnanimity of truth.

True friendship destroys envy, and true love destroys coquetterie.

If you have to ask yourself whether or not you love a girl or you love a boy, forget it. You don't.

One can beg, buy, be presented with and find love in the streets, but it can never be stolen.

Love sees clearly, and seeing, loves on. But infatuation is blind; when it gains sight, it dies.

You can't force love, I realized. It's there or it isn't. If it's not there, you've got to be able to admit it. If it is there, you've got to do whatever it takes to protect the ones you love.

Love is something you cant invent, no matter how much you want to.

Love can make a great celebration out of your life - but only love, not lust, not ego, not possessiveness, not jealousy, not dependence.

I am not talking about what every one of us means by love. Little namby-pamby love is lovely. Man rails in love with woman, and woman goes to die for man. The chances are that in five minutes John kicks Jane, and Jane kicks John. This is a materialism and no love at all. If John could really love Jane, he would be perfect that moment.

True love ennobles and dignifies the material labors of life; and homely services rendered for love's sake have in them a poetry that is immortal.

What you call love does not sound very beautiful.

for a woman, love is its own reason. "I love you because I love you.

Love, for too many men in our time, consists of sleeping with a seductive woman, one who is properly endowed with the right distribution of curves and conveniences and one upon whom a permanent lien has been acquired through the institution of marriage.

Love's like virtue, its own reward.

If it is conditional, it is not love

I am still learning about love. I thought I understood it--not just mother love, but the love for one's parents, for one's husband, and for one's laotong. I've experienced the other types of love--pity love, respectful love and gratitude love. But looking at our secret fan with its messages written between Snow Flower and me over many years, I see that I didn't value the most important love--deep-heart love.

If one loves, one need not have an ideology of love.

Love is nothing if it is not spontaneous. It cannot be a conclusion of reasoning.

It is possible to be in love with you just because of who you are.

Every woman wants a man who'll fall in love with her soul as well as her body.