“It is not your love that sustains the marriage, but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love.”— Dietrich Bonhoeffer, amazon.com
“Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.”— Dietrich Bonhoeffer, amazon.com
“As days passed, the more close and perfect grew the sympathies of husband and wife, they were like two notes of a perfect chord, sounding together in sweetest harmony.”— Marie Corelli, amazon.com
“Days of high ecstacy and painfully passionate joy! — when 'love, love!' palpitated in the air, and struggled for utterance in the jubilant throats of birds, and whispered wild suggestions in the rustling of the leaves!”— Marie Corelli, amazon.com
“Love, with her, had not yet proved an illusion — a bright toy to be snatched hastily and played with for a brief while, and then thrown aside as broken and worthless. It seemed to her a most marvellous and splendid gift of God, increasing each day in worth and beauty — widening upon her soul and daz…”— Marie Corelli, amazon.com
“As challenging as it is being a military spouse, the ever-present uncertainty about where life will take us next can be kind of exhilarating.”— Harling Ross, manrepeller.com
“''Child, he said tremulously, ' in the new joys that await thee, never forget how thy father loves thee!'”— Marie Corelli, amazon.com
“All my thoughts have gone to drown themselves one by one in the cold sea! My heart was buried yesterday, and I saw it sealed down into its coffin. There is something of me left — something that dances before me like a flame — but it will not rest, it does not obey me. I call it, but it will not come…”— Marie Corelli, amazon.com
“Love, and love only, supported, controlled, and grandly completed the universe! He accepted this answer to all perplexities — his heart expanded with a sense of large content — his soul was satisfied.”— Marie Corelli, amazon.com
“Lorimer entered the saloon. He glanced from Errington to Thelma, and from Thelma back again to Errington — and smiled. So have certain brave soldiers been known to smile in face of a death-shot.”— Marie Corelli, amazon.com
“But it is not anything to be beautiful — unless one is loved — and then it is different! I feel much more beautiful now, since you think me pleasant to look at!”— Marie Corelli, amazon.com
“What are you thinking about? Your eyes shine so brightly — do you know you have beautiful eyes?”— Marie Corelli, amazon.com
“'What is terrible, my sweet one?' She sighed deeply. 'To have no more life of my own! It has all gone — to you! And yours has come to me! Is it not strange and almost sad? How your heart beats, poor boy! I can hear it throb, throb — so fast! — here, where I am resting my head.'”— Marie Corelli, amazon.com
“I cannot say it properly! There is no language for my heart! If I could tell you all I feel, you would think it foolish, I am sure, because if is all so wild and strange.”— Marie Corelli, amazon.com
“I will not speak of the suddenness of your love for my child, because I know, from my own past experience, that love is a rapid impulse — a flame ignited in a moment.”— Marie Corelli, amazon.com
“Then came a touch — soft and sweet as a rose-leaf pressed against his lips — and for one moment he remembered nothing — he was caught up like Homer's Paris in a cloud of gold, and knew not which was earth or heaven.”— Marie Corelli, amazon.com
“His brain was in a wild whirl — the glitter of the stalactite cave turned to a gyrating wheel of jewel-work; there was nothing anymore — no universe, no existence — nothing but love, love, love, beating strung hammer-strokes through every fibre of his frame.”— Marie Corelli, amazon.com
“Is it not true that many people do hide their feelings, and pretend to be quite different to what they are?”— Marie Corelli, amazon.com
“He loved her! The terrible, beautiful tempest of love had broken over his life at last; there was no escape from its thunderous passion and dazzling lightning glory.”— Marie Corelli, amazon.com