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“Perhaps all the questions we ask of love, to measure, test, probe, and save it, have the additional effect of cutting it short. Perhaps the reason we are unable to love is that we yearn to be loved, that is, we demand something (love) from our partner instead of delivering ourselves up to him demand-free and asking for nothing but his company.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“Mas e o amor? O que é senão um monte de gostar? Gostar de falar, gostar de tocar, gostar de cheirar, gostar de ouvir, gostar de olhar. Gostar de se abandonar no outro. O amor não passa de um gostar de muitos verbos ao mesmo tempo.”
― Carla Madeira, Tudo é rio

“In that moment, Blue was a little in love with all of them.
Their magic. Their quest. Their awfulness and strangeness.
Her raven boys.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Dream Thieves

“For January, I don't care how the story ends as long as I spend it with you.”
― Emily Henry, Beach Read