“It is as great a thing to love as it is to be loved. Love is not something that can be wasted.”

Source: The Confessions of Max Tivoli

Source: The Wise Man's Fear (2011)
Context: We love what we love. Reason does not enter into it. In many ways, unwise love is the truest love. Anyone can love a thing because. That's as easy as putting a penny in your pocket. But to love something despite. To know the flaws and love them too. That is rare and pure and perfect.

Source: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

Source: Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother

Source: Aleph

Leigh-Cheri to Bernard, in Phase III, Ch. 46.
Still Life with Woodpecker (1980)
Context: I’m not quite twenty, but, thanks to you, I’ve learned something that many women these days never learn: Prince Charming really is a toad. And the Beautiful Princess has halitosis. The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and the vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. Loving makes love. Loving makes itself. We waste time looking for the perfect lover instead of creating the perfect love. Wouldn’t that be the way to make love stay?

(Cambridge: 2002), Book 9, Chapter 2, Section 2, p. 26
On the Trinity (417)

Source: The Devil and Miss Prym