Earning Love Quotes

“Who can love someone who is empty inside? Someone who steals love instead of earning it?”
― Holly Black, The Prisoner’s Throne

“Those accustomed to hard work and self-propulsion, who have risen to the zenith of accomplishment by force of will and magnitude of effort, are most susceptible to the supreme self-damnation of human life—the belief that love is something to be earned by striving rather than something that comes unbidden like a shepherd's song on a summer evening in the mountains of Bulgaria.”
― Maria Popova, Figuring

“If you were to love, love not for the lust that you yearn but the rather the pain that you earn with it.”
― Adhish Mazumder

“Some people earn love. Some people blackmail others into it.”
― Rebekah Crane, The Upside of Falling Down