Quotes for anniversaries and events (page 13)

“Without love, there's nothing without love.”

Jon Bon Jovi (1962) American singer and musician

Without Love
Music, Slippery When Wet (1986)

“A life without love is like a tree without fruit.”

Stephen King book Doctor Sleep

Source: Doctor Sleep

“I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there’s a life after that, I’ll love you then.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Jace to Clary, pg. 331
Variant: There is no pretending, I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there is life after that, I'll love you then.
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Glass (2009)

“Life is the flower for which love is the honey.”

Victor Hugo (1802–1885) French poet, novelist, and dramatist

“Better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. ”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) British poet laureate

“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable.”

Neil Gaiman (1960) English fantasy writer

The character "Rose Walker" in The Sandman #65
Context: Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses. You build up a whole armor, for years, so nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life... You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends' or 'how very perceptive' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a body-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. Nothing should be able to do that. Especially not love. I hate love.