“Through love to light! Oh wonderful the way
That leads from darkness to the perfect day!”
Richard Watson Gilder (1844–1909) editor
After-song (1894), reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“It was finally becoming clear to her that love wasn't about finding someone perfect to marry. Love was about seeing through to the truth of a person, and accepting all their shades of light and dark. Love was an ability.”
Source: Tempt Me at Twilight
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