Love Quotes

“Someone made me Real,” he said. “That was a great many years ago; but once you are Real you can’t become unreal. It lasts for always.

The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams

This children’s story passage is timeless and wrenching. I was reading love quotes lately to prepare to write a wedding ceremony for my brother and his fiancé, and was struck by how so much of them don’t seem to mean anything (all flowery language and dated declarations) while then again there are passages like the Velveteen Rabbit, where being loved makes you become, makes you real, and the realness lasts even after the love the is gone.

Here’s another one I love:

Even After All this time The Sun never says to the Earth, ‘You owe me.’ Look What happens With a love like that, It lights the whole sky.

The Gift by Hafiz

At my own wedding, I chose this passage:

“You say you want to see how it all comes out.  I hope most of you know better. Want better. I hope you came to hear the tale, and not just munch your way through the pages to the ending.  For an ending, you only have to turn to the last page and see what is there writ upon. But endings are heartless. There is no such thing as a happy ending.  I never met a single one equal to “Once upon a time.”

The Dark Tower by Stephen King

I’ll work on the right words for my brother’s wedding, but I am drawn not to the ineffable love but rather to effortful love. Less to forever, and more to making each moment resonate and change you for the better.

Now I just need to find the right quote for that.

With Love,

Natalie