love's influence Quotes

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.

Yea there ain't nothing not affected when two hearts get connected. All that is will be or ever was; every single choice we make; every breath we get to take is all because two people fell in love.

The prince says that the world will be saved by beauty! And I maintain that the reason he has such playful ideas is that he is in love.

But love was strange. It distorted your perspective and played havoc with your logic.

May you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.

If you give up your quiet life, the bow of Cupid will lose its power.

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Love looketh from the eye, and kindleth love by looking.

The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world.

When [men] see a pretty woman, and feel the delicious madness of love coming over them, they always stop to calculate her temper, her money, their own money, or suitableness for the married life.... Ha, ha, ha! Let us fool in this way no more. I have been in love forty-three times with all ranks and conditions of women, and would have married every time if they would have let me. How many wives had King Solomon, the wisest of men? And is not that story a warning to us that Love is master of the wisest? It is only fools who defy him.

Mort was already aware that love made you feel hot and cold and cruel and weak, but he hadn't realized that it could make you stupid.

If thou remeber'st not the slightest folly that ever love did make thee run into, thou hast not lov'd

We were green: we ripened and grew golden. The Sea terrified us: we learned how to drown. Squat and earthbound, we unfolded huge wings. We started sober: are love's startled drunkards. You hide me in your cloak of nothingness Reflect my ghost in your glass of being I am nothing, yet appear: transparent dream Where your eternity briefly trembles.

Love passes by us, robed in meekness; but we flee from her in fear, or hide in the darkness; or else pursue her, to do evil in her name.

Love gives beauty to everything it touches.

A heavy burden lifted from my soul, I heard that love was out of my control.

Two words: Love leads. Listen to that ring of love within. If we follow that leading of love we'll be guaranteed an adventurous, positive, joyful life.

Love removes the world for you, and just as surely when it's going well as when it's going badly.

The sight of lovers feedeth those in love.

Nothing goes far which has not the wings of love to make it buoyant, so that it can fly.

Love has a hem to her garment that reaches to the very dust. It sweeps the stains from the streets and lanes, and because it can, it must.

and so will the world end, I think, a victim of love rather than hate. For love's ever been the more destructive weapon, sure.

They are not wise, then, who stand forth to buffet against Love; for Love rules the gods as he will, and me.