“People destroy what they love.”

“As happens with people who love a thing too much, it destroys them.
Oscar Wilde said, 'You destroy the thing that you love.' It's the other way around. What you love destroys you.”

“What I love I destroy. What I destroy, I love.”

“The boy never cried again, and he never forgot what he'd learned: that to love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed.”

“To love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be destroyed.”

“We are what our ancestors have been, and to destroy that destroys the very reason that people fight and die and sacrifice to preserve this country.”

“God knows we’re all drawn toward what’s beautiful and broken; I have been, but some people cannot be fixed. Or if they can be, it’s only by love and sacrifice so great it destroys the giver.”

“People as old and powerful as he should never be given someone to love. For Anna he would destroy the world.”

“We cannot love our own people unless we hate those who consciously destroy our kind.”

“The fact is, you don't love me, and you haven't destroyed me. You don't have what it takes to do that.”