“It's hard to close the door on optimistic expectations when you love someone.”
Dennis Lehane book A Drink Before the War
Source: A Drink Before the War
“When you love someone, you hope — the more closely to be attached — that a catastrophe will strike your beloved.”
Anathemas and Admirations (1987)
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Context: It's only when you become love — in other words, when you have dropped your illusions and attachments — that you will "know." As you identify less and less with the "me," you will be more at ease with everybody and with everything. Do you know why? Because you are no longer afraid of being hurt or not liked. You no longer desire to impress anyone. Can you imagine the relief when you don't have to impress anybody anymore? Oh, what a relief. Happiness at last! You no longer feel the need or the compulsion to explain things anymore. It's all right. What is there to be explained? And you don't feel the need or compulsion to apologize anymore. I'd much rather hear you say, "I've come awake," than hear you say, "I'm sorry." I'd much rather hear you say to me, "I've come awake since we last met; what I did to you won't happen again," than to hear you say, "I'm so sorry for what I did to you."
“It's as if when you love someone, they become your reason.”
David Levithan book Every Day
Source: Every Day
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