Second Love Quotes

“Oh my. Molly put her hand to her no-doubt agape mouth. Oh my, oh my, oh my. After her divorce, she hadn’t thought this day would ever come again, but here it was, a second proposal. Life is funny, she thought, and she felt herself step back from the reality of her situation for a moment, lest its emotions overwhelm her and make her swoon like a damsel in those Middle English chivalric romances she taught in 10th-grade English. Yes, life was indeed funny. It had no syllabus, which was why Molly, always a diligent student, felt so unprepared for it. Life played tricks on you too, surprised you, with the biggest surprise that life, even at the nearly half-century mark, could still hold surprises. Like so: There is a man in my kitchen, a man I’m in love with, and he wants to spend the rest of his life with me. How strange and how very unconventional by its conventional, everyday setting.”
― Ray Smith, The Magnolia That Bloomed Unseen

“It came over me, then, that any woman who ever loves more than one man must carry forever with her, in her heart, a ghost. There is no new thing for her to learn. It has all been done before.”
― Janice Holt Giles, The Believers

“You love Robert, not me. You don’t love Lord Stuffy, so I tried to be like Robert.”
The sweet idiot! She felt like weeping again. She began to protest, but he cut her off.
“I don’t drink and I don’t gamble and I don’t have a mistress. I’m dull. You told me so, the first time we met. So I tried to change.” He frowned. “Not the mistress. I’ll never do that.”
“Good,” she whispered.
“I’m trying to be like Robert, but I’m no good at it. I drank wine. And brandy, lots of it. I didn’t like it and it made me sick. I played hazard and I lost.” He looked momentarily cheerful and her heart sank. “But I didn’t like that either. If I was a real man like Mr. Fox, or Robert, I’d have lost thousands.”
The sadder he looked, the more her heart ached, a happy ache.
“I failed you, Caro. I’m sorry, but I’m afraid I’ll always be Lord Stuffy,” he said, and closed his tortured, bloodshot eyes.”
― Miranda Neville, The Importance of Being Wicked

“Perhaps one day I'll have two hearts to give.”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising

“Charlotte didn’t care. She was floating away in a sea of happiness, wrapped up in the beauty of second love.”
― Lindsay Detwiler, Then Comes Love

“They were growing closer and closer every day, and Charlotte was finding something magical at Wildflower, something she never thought she would find again—love.”
― Lindsay Detwiler, Then Comes Love

“I don't think love is once in a lifetime. I think love is always a possibility.”
― Lindsay Detwiler, Then Comes Love

“We we fall in love the first time, we don't know anything. We risk a lot less than we do if we choose to love again. There is something extraordinary about the first time falling”
― Ally Condie, Reached

“She kept him close to herself. She wanted me to be near her as well, only on a longer leash. What madness it was, to see her from so close and not to have her!”
― Mukta Singh-Zocchi, The Thugs & a Courtesan

“God made it so you spent yo' ole age first wid somebody else, and saved up yo' young girl days to spend wid me.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

“Tea Cake love me in blue, so Ah wears it. Jody ain't never in his life picked out no color for me.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

“Then Brian came along. Oh Georgia, I fell for his warm eyes and soft smile that very first year he rented the cottage. It wasn't the same as I'd felt for Edward. That had been a once in a lifetime kind of love. But it was steady, warm, and as gentle as the spring thaw. . .It is love that brought you here. I've never seen another love like Scarlett and Jameson's. It was one of those faded lightnight strikes, miraculous to see up close, to feel the energy between the two when they were in the same room. That is the love that lives in your veins. I've never seen another love like I had for Edward, we were twin flames. But I've also never seen another love like I had for Brian - deep, and calm, and true. Or another love like William's for Hannah, achingly sweet. But I have seen the same love that I had for William the day that I stepped on that plane. It lives in you. You are the culmination of every lightning strike and twist of fate. Do not settle for the love that hones your edges and turns you bitter and cold, Georgia. Not when there are so many other kinds of love waiting for you. And don't wait like I did, wasting 17 years, because I'd left one bitter foot in my past. We're all entitled to our mistakes. When you recognize them for what they are, don't live there. Life is too short to miss the lightning strike, and too long to live it alone.”
― Rebecca Yarros, The Things We Leave Unfinished

“Laura, istriku. Cintaku hanya kuberikan untukmu dan Prapti. Kalau akhirnya kau menemukan jodohku nanti, penggantimu itu statusnya tidak lain dari mata air yang hanya kubutuhkan ketika aku menginginkan air. Tidak lebih dari itu, karena aku memang tidak ingin mengangkatnya ke tingkat yang lebih tinggi. Bagimu ini mungkin menyakitkan karena aku memperlakukan kaum sejenismu sebagai alat yang hanya kuperlukan sewaktu-waktu. Apa boleh buat. Maafkan aku kalau aku tidak dapat memberikan cintaku kepada orang lain selain padamu dan Prapti. Karena cinta yang tidak dapat kuberikan kepada orang lain itu pulalah, surat ini kutulis di malam yang telah mulai larut ini. Hanya itu yang ingin kukatakan.”
― Sori Siregar, Wanita Itu Adalah Ibu