“What if sometimes there is no choice about what to love?”
Source: Infinite Jest (1996)
Context: What if sometimes there is no choice about what to love? What if the temple comes to Mohammed? What if you just love? without deciding? You just do: you see her and in that instant are lost to sober account-keeping and cannot choose but to love?
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American fiction writer and essayist 1962–2008Related quotes

“sometimes what you miss the most is the way a loved one made you feel about yourself.”
Source: The First Phone Call from Heaven
Quoted in The Economist, 25 Feb 2012, p. 63

Il est quelquefois agréable à un mari d'avoir une femme jalouse; il entend toujours parler de ce qu'il aime.
Maxim 48 from the Manuscrit de Liancourt.
Later Additions to the Maxims

“Young women have more choices to make today about what to be. One of those choices is activist.”
Global Goals United Nations https://twitter.com/GlobalGoalsUN/status/712709697468571648 (March 23, 2016)
2010s

“Sometimes love's not enough. And if it's not enough, what good is it?”
Variant: Sometimes love isn't enough. And if it's not enough, what good is it?
Source: Reflected in You
“Sometimes God allows what he hates to accomplish what he loves.”
Source: The God I Love

“Sometimes God allows what he hates to accomplish what he loves.”
Source: The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing