Hannah

“German is a much more precise language than English. Americans throw the word love around for everything: I love my wife! I love all my friends! I love rock music! I love the rain! I love comic books! I love peanut butter!

The word you use to describe your feelings for your wife should not be the same word you use to describe your feelings for peanut butter. In German, there are a dozen different words that describe varying degrees of liking something a lot. Germans almost never use the word love, unless they mean a deep romantic love. I have never told my parents I love them, because it would sound melodramatic, inappropriate, and almost incestuous. In German, you tell your mother that you hold her very dear, not that you are in love with her.”
― Oliver Markus Malloy, Bad Choices Make Good Stories - The Heroin Scene in Fort Myers

“We are surrounded by story.”
― Alice McDermott

“I can’t take any more of being careful around her. I want her. Not just for now, but for always.—HEW”
― Michelle Warren, He + She

“She wasn't pretty, but there were moments when I found her beautiful.”
― David Levithan, How They Met, and Other Stories