“[He] fell right into the oldest conviction in the world-- that the girl you are in love with can't possibly be anything but true and honest.”

—  John Steinbeck, book East of Eden

Source: East of Eden

Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "[He] fell right into the oldest conviction in the world-- that the girl you are in love with can't possibly be anything…" by John Steinbeck?
John Steinbeck photo
John Steinbeck366
American writer 1902–1968

Related quotes

“If you have loved someone and then fell out of love with them, it is possible to fall back in love with them; but only if they were not the reason you fell out of love with them.”

Gandolfo – (RJ Intindola)

2017

Robert E. Lee photo

“Honesty in its widest sense is always admirable. The trite saying that 'honesty is the best policy' has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The seems to be true. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.”

Robert E. Lee (1807–1870) Confederate general in the Civil War

"Memoirs of Robert E. Lee" by A. L. Long (1886)
1870s

Richard Dawkins photo

“The patient typically finds himself impelled by some deep, inner conviction that something is true, or right, or virtuous: a conviction that doesn't seem to owe anything to evidence or reason, but which, nevertheless, he feels as totally compelling and convincing. We doctors refer to such a belief as "faith."”

Richard Dawkins book Viruses of the Mind

Viruses of the Mind (1993)

Jack Layton photo

“This gorgeous Chinese girl gets up and I fell in love instantly.”

Jack Layton (1950–2011) Leader of the New Democratic Party of Canada

On meeting Olivia Chow for the first time in 1985, May 2003.[citation needed]

James Patterson photo

“When its true, when it's right, love can give you the kind of joy that you can't get from any other experience.”

James Patterson book Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas

Source: Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas

Sophie Kinsella photo

“If you can't be honest with your friends and colleagues and loved ones, then what is life all about?”

Sophie Kinsella book Can You Keep a Secret?

Source: Can You Keep a Secret?

“She was carrying two coffees and a donut bag,
and right then and there, he fell in love."
-Animal Magnetism”

Jill Shalvis (1963) American writer

Margaret Atwood photo

“This is how the girl who couldn't speak and the man who couldn't see fell in love.”

Margaret Atwood book The Blind Assassin

Source: The Blind Assassin

Jonathan Safran Foer photo

“It's the tragedy of loving, you can't love anything more than something you miss.”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Variant: It’s the tragedy of loving, you can’t love anything more than something you miss.
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005), p. 208

Related topics