Wednesday, January 28, 2004
“He kissed her. There was such an incredible logic to kissing, such a metal-to-magnet pull between two people that it was a wonder that they found the strength to prevent themselves from succumbing every second. Rightfully, the world should be a whirlpool of kissing into which we sank and never found the strength to rise up again.” Ann Patchett, Bel Canto, p 250 (Thanks Missa for such a WONDERFUL quote and book!)
“‘Oh, I don’t know! What’s love if it doesn’t do that? I mean to say, it is something godly to love another human being, isn’t it? I mean, what does “godly” mean if it doesn’t mean giving up everything for another? It isn’t human to love, you know. It’s foolish, it’s a folly, a divine folly. It’s beyond all reason, all limits. I didn’t rise to it,’ he concluded sadly.” Sean O’Faolain, “Lovers of the Lake”
I saw it, Jess said softly. It was a star.
Garth looked down at her. He removed a tiny flake of tobacco or wood ash that had landed on her cheek. He looked into the flames. He looked up at the firmament. Gentlemen, he said. That must have been a star. Daniel Villasenor, The Lake, p 148
“The relationship between your grandfather and mother was, as the saying is, perfect, nor would I for a moment dispute that, believing as I do that each of these much tried and by no means easy-going people found in the other the highest and most perfect harmony which their natures could respond to. Beautiful often, even to our eyes, were their gestures, their glances of pure and unutterable delight in each other.” Virginia Woolf
“Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Love never ends.”
I Corinthians 13:4-8
A few quotes from excellent books on love. There are lots more, of course, but these felt pertinent at the moment.
Today was a snow day. It had all the elements that make a snow day so necessary to health: getting up early to celebrate, going back to bed, reading, playing games, shoveling, snuggling with the cat, lazy late breakfast, and a long bath. Lovely, really! Made me pine a little, though... :-)
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“‘Oh, I don’t know! What’s love if it doesn’t do that? I mean to say, it is something godly to love another human being, isn’t it? I mean, what does “godly” mean if it doesn’t mean giving up everything for another? It isn’t human to love, you know. It’s foolish, it’s a folly, a divine folly. It’s beyond all reason, all limits. I didn’t rise to it,’ he concluded sadly.” Sean O’Faolain, “Lovers of the Lake”
I saw it, Jess said softly. It was a star.
Garth looked down at her. He removed a tiny flake of tobacco or wood ash that had landed on her cheek. He looked into the flames. He looked up at the firmament. Gentlemen, he said. That must have been a star. Daniel Villasenor, The Lake, p 148
“The relationship between your grandfather and mother was, as the saying is, perfect, nor would I for a moment dispute that, believing as I do that each of these much tried and by no means easy-going people found in the other the highest and most perfect harmony which their natures could respond to. Beautiful often, even to our eyes, were their gestures, their glances of pure and unutterable delight in each other.” Virginia Woolf
“Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Love never ends.”
I Corinthians 13:4-8
A few quotes from excellent books on love. There are lots more, of course, but these felt pertinent at the moment.
Today was a snow day. It had all the elements that make a snow day so necessary to health: getting up early to celebrate, going back to bed, reading, playing games, shoveling, snuggling with the cat, lazy late breakfast, and a long bath. Lovely, really! Made me pine a little, though... :-)
