The quotes about love that I love, but am not using in this weekend’s upcoming ceremony. I spent a long time trying to find the right passages (when is something ever “right”?, uffda). Here were not the right ones and but close . . . or not close and I liked them:
“That’s the choice. I love him, with all that, because of all that. On purpose. I love him on purpose.”
― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue
“I love you,’ I say. I may as well say it, I’m thinking it. It’s all I ever think. I’m an ‘I love you’ gun with the safety off, a finger constantly on the trigger.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Any Way the Wind Blows
“There is no such thing as a happy ending. I never met one equal to ‘Once Upon a Time.'”
― Stephen King, The Dark Tower
“You – you alone will have the stars as no one else has them… In one of the stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing, when you look at the sky at night… You – only you – will have stars that can laugh.”
―Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
A good relationship has a pattern like a dance and is built on some of the same rules. The partners do not need to hold on tightly, because they move confidently in the same pattern, intricate but gay and swift and free, like a country dance of Mozart’s. To touch heavily would be to arrest the pattern and freeze the movement, to check the endlessly changing beauty of its unfolding. There is no place here for the possessive clutch, the clinging arm, the heavy hand; only the barest touch in passing. Now arm in arm, now face to face, now back to back — it does not matter which. Because they know they are partners moving to the same rhythm, creating a pattern together, and being invisibly nourished by it.”
― Anne Morrow Lindbergh, A Gift from the Sea
“We are not broken things, neither of us. We are cracked pottery mended with lacquer and flakes of gold, whole as we are, complete unto each other. Complete and worthy and so very loved.”
― Mackenzi Lee, The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue
With Love,
Natalie