“You can no more make someone tell the truth than you can force someone to love you.”
Philip Roth book Portnoy's Complaint
Source: Portnoy's Complaint
Emma Harris, Chapter 19, p. 202
2000s, The Guardian (2003)
“You can no more make someone tell the truth than you can force someone to love you.”
Philip Roth book Portnoy's Complaint
Source: Portnoy's Complaint
“But you can't marry someone to fix him, even if you love them.”
Patricia Briggs book Bone Crossed
Source: Bone Crossed
“No one can hate you with more intensity than someone who used to love you.”
Rick Riordan book The Blood of Olympus
Variant: No one can hate you more than someone who used to love you.
Source: The Blood of Olympus
“It’s scary telling someone you care about, someone you love who you really are.”
Eric Jerome Dickey (1961) American author
Source: Genevieve
“You promise me, he said. That you love him. Enough to marry him and make him happy.”
Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince
Source: Clockwork Prince
“Hate," Case said. "Who do I hate? You tell me." "Who do you love?”
William Gibson book Neuromancer
the Finn's voice asked.
Neuromancer (1984)
Elizabeth Gilbert book Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
Source: Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
Elizabeth Chandler (1954) writer
Source: Kissed by an Angel/The Power of Love/Soulmates