quotes about Good Lovers

last updated: November 28, 2023

A good lover will do that, see something worthwhile in you that you never knew was there. And when there's something you don't like to see in yourself a good lover won't see it either.
-- Ana Castillo

Source : Ana Castillo (2000). “Peel My Love Like an Onion: A Novel”, Anchor

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“And without further argument he unsheathed the sword and cleaved Miss Foxe's head from her neck. He knew what was supposed to happen. He knew that this awkward, whispering creature before him should now transform into a princess - dazzlingly beautiful, free, and made wise by her hardship. That is not what happened.”

Source : Helen Oyeyemi (2011). “Mr Fox”, p.67, Pan Macmillan
“Color can do anything that black-and-white can.”
“I never say a funny thing intentionally.”
“Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs.”
“Intimacy with God is to be preferred above material wealth.”
“Sometimes, a fight you cannot win is still worth fighting.”
“A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal.”
“Well, very splendid and very frightening. But splendid things are often frightening. Sometimes, it's the fright that makes them splendid at all.”
“I'm not big on looking up myself. I don't get Google alerts, and I don't look on blogs.”
“I do not write for this generation. I am writing for other ages. If this could read me, they would burn my books, the work of my whole life. On the other hand, the generation which interprets these writings will be an educated generation; they will understand me and say: Not all were asleep in the nighttime of our grandparents.”