“Love so joyfully and freely given can never be taken away. It is never truly gone.”
Cameron Dokey (1956) American writer
Source: Before Midnight: A Retelling of Cinderella
“Love so joyfully and freely given can never be taken away. It is never truly gone.”
Cameron Dokey (1956) American writer
Source: Before Midnight: A Retelling of Cinderella
“Everything I loved was taken away from me, and I did not die.”
James Patterson book Kiss the Girls
Source: Kiss the Girls
Gloria Estefan (1957) Cuban-American singer-songwriter, actress and divorciada
"Billboard Magazine" (11 October 2003)
2007, 2008
Jenny Han book To All the Boys I've Loved Before
Variant: Love is scary: it changes; it can go away. That's part of the risk.
Source: To All the Boys I've Loved Before
Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay
Katniss (p. 390; closing words of the epilogue)
Source: The Hunger Games trilogy, Mockingjay (2010)
Context: I'll tell them how I survive it. I'll tell them that on bad mornings, it feels impossible to take pleasure in anything because I'm afraid it could be taken away. That's when I make a list in my head of every act of goodness I've seen someone do. It's like a game. Repetitive. Even a little tedious after more than twenty years.
But there are much worse games to play.
Apolo Anton Ohno (1982) American short track speed skating competitor
On speedskating
Gordon, Devin (2006-01-23), "APOLO ANTON OHNO: SPEED SKATING". Newsweek. 147 (4):48