Cristina Nehring > Quotes

“At its strongest and wildest and most authentic, love is a demon. It is a religion, a high-risk adventure, an act of heroism. Love is ecstasy and injury, transcendence and danger, altruism and excess. In many ways, it is a divine madness.”
― Cristina Nehring, A Vindication of Love: Reclaiming Romance for the Twenty-first Century

“Love, far from being blind, is the very emotion that allows us to see.”
― Cristina Nehring, A Vindication of Love: Reclaiming Romance for the Twenty-first Century

“Too often, it is only love that makes us engaged enough, alert enough, alive enough to see”
― Cristina Nehring, A Vindication of Love: Reclaiming Romance for the Twenty-first Century

“Those whom even love cannot shake from their habitual aversion to risk and inertia are those who are truly unredeemable.”
― Cristina Nehring, A Vindication of Love: Reclaiming Romance for the Twenty-first Century