George DeValier > Quotes

“Some things are worth the risk.”
― George DeValier

“There are many types of love in this world, Feliciano. Some are quiet, and comfortable, and smoulder softly. Some blaze brightly and fade fast. But some - and this is very rare - some burn forever. They change everything you ever thought you were, and at the same time, make you more yourself than you could ever be alone. Not everyone finds it. True, not everyone wants it. But if you do find it, or if it finds you, the whole world changes, and you realise that the true purpose of your being was simply to have been in that person’s life, and them in yours.”
― George DeValier, Auf Wiedersehen, Sweetheart

“I'm not talking about loving someone in expectation of anything in return. I'm talking about loving someone because of who they are. Because of the way they talk, they smile, they fight; because of what they say and what they believe; because of all the wonderful, annoying, beautiful, frustrating, stupid, lovely, embarrassing things they do and they are. Because they are the one person in all the world who makes you finally understand how perfectly, intricately amazing a human being can be. And if they do not love me it changes nothing, because I will not love them so they love me, I will love them because I have no other choice.”
― George DeValier

“The moment we met, I saw it. I saw you. You are such a wonderfully kind person, but you don't want anyone to know it. You have secret depths of passion that you hide within yourself out of fear. You love too deeply, but you try to deny it, because you know that the deeper you love, the more you hurt. Your heart is so fragile, which is why you keep it locked in an iron cage. But I am pretty sure that this cage has a lock. And if it takes me five years, or ten, or fifty… I am determined to find the key. Because I will never break something so precious, just to find out what is inside. I could give you a thousand words, and describe you a thousand ways. But in the end it is very simple. I want you because I love you. No one else. You are the only one. You are my only one.”

“You'd wait that long?”

“Forever, mi corazón.”
― George DeValier

“It's when you look at them and you realize beyond any doubt that they are the most beautiful thing you have seen in all your life [That is Love].”
― George DeValier

“I tried to protect someone once. A lifetime ago.”
― George DeValier, Besame Mucho

“No one is strong enough to control everything.”
― George DeValier, Auf Wiedersehen, Sweetheart

“People do terrible things in this world, Feliciano. Things I will never forget, and never understand. And that's why we have to hold onto the beautiful things.”
― George DeValier, Auf Wiedersehen, Sweetheart

“But it was a longer journey than that. A journey that had started four years ago, on a warm winter afternoon, when a kind German officer with sky-blue eyes first gazed down at Feliciano in the sunlight. A journey Feliciano had remembered and recreated so many times it seemed almost fantastical. Speeches of flying and lavender and loyalty; words spoken in too-lyrical German and too-strong Italian. Stolen glances and songs of resistance, language lessons and soccer games beneath a gnarled old oak tree. Falling against Ludwig's military jacket in a narrow alley that echoed with gunshots; wearing that very same jacket, studded with green leaves and rosemary, during a simple, calm, beautiful walk into the hills. Every day of waiting, every hour of not knowing, every endless second of being without the person Feliciano needed more than anything else in the entire world. All of it had led him here. Every step Feliciano had taken for the last four years had led him here.”
― George DeValier, Auf Wiedersehen, Sweetheart

“He loved her enough to let her go.”
― George DeValier, Lily of the Lamplight

“. . . when you look at them, this one person, and you really, truly see them. It might be immediate, or it might not be the first time you look. And it might be earth shattering, but it could also be just a silent realisation. But it's when you look at them and you realise, beyond any doubt, that they are the most beautiful thing you have ever seen in all your life.”
― George DeValier, Besame Mucho

“And if you decide you will never feel that way about me, then I will accept it. I will never love anyone else, but I will accept it. But if there is the slightest spark - the tiniest flame of hope that maybe, possibly, one day you can let yourself feel just a fraction of what I feel for you - then I will wait, Lovino . . . I will wait however long it takes until you are ready.”

“You’d wait that long?”

“Forever, mi corazón.”
― George DeValier, Besame Mucho

“You spend so long waiting for something to happen, then when it does, it’s over so fast you barely notice. But it’s those brief moments that matter.”
― George DeValier

“Sometimes, Lovino, things get broken. But what is inside. . . is what matters. Because that is what will last forever. . . and it will never break.”
― George DeValier, Besame Mucho

“Imagine if mankind reached for the stars instead of trying so desperately to annihilate each other.”
― George DeValier, Besame Mucho

“Believe that you’ll survive another day, Roderich. And don’t just believe in tomorrow. Believe in next week, and next month, and next year. Believe in survival. Believe in joyful survival.”
― George DeValier, Lily of the Lamplight