Category Archives: Love

Julia Alvarez, In The Name of Salom

“The struggle to see and the struggle to love the flawed thing we see - what other struggle is there?”

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Julia Alvarez, In The Name of Salom

“It is a mystery how the heart gets free. And perhaps there is a kind of quiet courage to waiting until it does.”

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F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

“The idea, you know, is that the sentimental person thinks things will last - the romantic person has a desperate confidence that they won’t.”

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Jeff Buckley, Lover You Should Have Come Over

“Maybe I’m just too young to keep good Love from going bad.”

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Leonard Cohen, Hallelujah

“Love is not a victory march, it’s a cold and it’s a broken hallelujah.”

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Aleister Crowley, Diary of a Drug Fiend

“Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law. Love is the law, love under will.”

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Rumi

“Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy,
absentminded. Someone sober
will worry about events going badly.
Let the lover be.”

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