“There is no escape if love is not there”

“There is no escape if love is not there," Hannah had said. Had Hannah known when she herself had not even suspected? It was not escape that she had dreamed about, it was love.”

“Love, I think, is a gateway to the world, not an escape from it.”

“can run, you can hide, but you can’t escape my love”

“There is only a way of escape from a place: is leaving ourselves. There is only a way of leaving ourselves: is loving someone.”

“No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.”

“But we do not normally mistake progressions of weakness, the loss of the simple capacity to escape, for the onset of love. Page 17”

“But many of us seek community solely to escape the fear of being alone. Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.”

“"God is love"
"Love is blind"
If these be true, then God is blind: Simple logic would appear to have escaped the theologians. Res ipsa loquitur, love is not blind, neither God's love nor man's, though we all wish at times to escape God's eye, and though it must at times appear that the lover cannot see what we see—unless, of course, we are ourselves that lover.
Like God, the lover sees but forgives.”

“Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.”