Returning To Love Quotes

“Cash looked at her, square in the eye, and his jaw twitched. She flinched, then braced herself. For what, she wasn’t sure, but just being near him made her feel like she was made of glass. Like anything he said would break her.
“I came to see you.”
Anything except that.”
― Summer Hines, Some Things Stay With You: A Windswept Wyoming Romance

“I know nothing about love.

No, that’s not exactly true. I know nothing about love that comes with a map or guarantee or even a set of rudimentary instructions.

Instead, what I know is kind of a collective unknowing. It is a wisdom that lies only in understanding the extent of my own lack of knowledge. An embrace of the mystery. Of the unpredictability.

Of the way love defies capture or description or ownership. Of the way it refuses boxes or labels or limits. Of the way, we return to it again and again and again. Regardless of fear and walls and every sensible bone in our human bodies.

No matter the hurt and the pain and the betrayal of our own integrity. Our hearts? They are always willing to deep dive one more, one more, just one more time...”
― Jeanette LeBlanc