“Maya, we are what we love. We are that we love.”
Source: The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
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Gabrielle Zevin 88
American writer 1977Related quotes
“We love the things we love for what they are.”
"Hyla Brook" (1920)
1920s
“To defend what we love we need a particularizing language, for we love what we particularly know.”
Life Is A Miracle : An Essay Against Modern Superstition (2000)
Context: We know enough of our own history by now to be aware that people exploit what they have merely concluded to be of value, but they defend what they love. To defend what we love we need a particularizing language, for we love what we particularly know.
“We love what we love. Reason does not enter into it.”
“The pleasure of love is in loving; we are happier in the passion we feel than in what we inspire.”
Le plaisir de l'amour est d'aimer; et l'on est plus heureux par la passion que l'on a que par celle que l'on donne.
Maxim 259. Compare: "They who inspire it most are fortunate, As I am now; but those who feel it most Are happier still", Percy Bysshe Shelley, Prometheus Unbound, Act ii, Scene 5.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
“What we have loved
Others will love
And we will teach them how.”
Manuscript Found in Accra (2012), Love has always passed me by
