Emotional Sacrifice Quotes

That was what she really wanted. To forget so thoroughly she'd never have another memory again, the bitter so bitter you gave up the sweet.

I think many of my books, including 'Handle with Care,' including 'My Sister's Keeper,' circle back to how far are we willing to go for the people we love? I think love changes the way we think. It's the thing that takes you out of what your normal set of beliefs would be.

Love is never wasted, even if it is not reciprocated.

She wasn't in love but she would love him, if that would save her.

The kind of love that offers its life so easily, so stupidly, is always the love that is not returned.

It does not matter what the whip is; it is none the less a whip, because you have cut thongs for it out of your own souls.

If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.

The violence we do to ourselves in order to remain faithful to the one we love is hardly better than an act of infidelity.

Better that one heart be broken a thousand times in the retelling, he has decided, if it means that a thousand other hearts need not be broken at all.

If it's your child, it's different. You don't care about those things. It's so minor. You become a parent and nothing else really matters.

It made me wonder how many times we forgive just because we don't want to lose someone, even if they don't deserve our forgiveness.

I could die for you. But I couldn't, and wouldn't, live for you.

If you care about somebody, you should want them to be happy. Even if you wind up being left out.

Loving people is the highest level of spiritual warfare that we could ever do

Losing you is most difficult for me, but the nature of my love for you is what matters. If it distorts into half-truth, then perhaps it is better not to love you. I must keep my mind but loose you.

In the first Spider-Man, at the end of the movie, Peter Parker had to deny himself a relationship with a girl that he's in love with. The very next thing that happens is that he's swinging through the city.

Gamble everything for love, if you're a true human being.

What is art? (...) Like a declaration of love: the consciousness of our dependence on each other. A confession. An unconscious act that none the less reflects the true meaning of life—love and sacrifice.

If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.

A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.

He left her. She was dissatisfied with him. He had preferred to incur her anger rather than cause her pain. He had kept all the pain for himself.

And I guess I realized at that moment that I really did love her. Because there was nothing to gain, and that didn't matter.

We don't love to be loved in return; we love to love.

How could you love someone and not want them to be happy?

Snape's patronus was a doe,' said Harry, 'the same as my mother's because he loved her for nearly all of his life, from when they were children.