“Is love stronger when it let's go or when it holds on?”
Kamila Shamsie (1973) Pakistani writer
Source: Kartography
Variant: There is love in holding, and there is love in letting go.
Source: The Year of Pleasures
“Is love stronger when it let's go or when it holds on?”
Kamila Shamsie (1973) Pakistani writer
Source: Kartography
“my love isn't a weapon, it's a lifeline, reach out and take hold, and don't let go!”
Francine Rivers (1947) American writer
Source: Redeeming Love
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) Austrian poet and writer
Source: Translations from the Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke
Mary Oliver (1935–2019) American writer
"In Blackwater Woods"
American Primitive (1983)
Source: New and Selected Poems, Vol. 1
Diana Wynne Jones book Fire and Hemlock
Source: Fire and Hemlock (1985), p. 392.
“Someday I'm going to find somebody and love him and love him and never let him go.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald book Tender Is the Night
Source: Tender Is the Night
“Love me tender, love me sweet,
Never let me go.”
Elvis Presley (1935–1977) American singer and actor
"Love Me Tender" (1956), the lyrics of this song are credited to Presley and co-writer Vera Matson, but were primarily written by Matson's husband, Ken Darby, who when asked why he credited his wife as co-writer with Presley replied "Because she didn't write it either."
Disputed
“If you loved someone, really loved them, would you let them go?”
Jodi Picoult (1966) Author
Source: Mercy