“I will love you always, because you will always be worthy of love.”
― An Ideal Husband
― An Ideal Husband
“I don’t have to be so afraid of good-bye, because good-bye doesn’t have to be forever.”
― To All the Boys I've Loved Before
― To All the Boys I've Loved Before
“To love someone is like moving into a house," Sonja used to say. "At first you fall in love in everything new, you wonder every morning that this is one's own, as if they are afraid that someone will suddenly come tumbling through the door and say that there has been a serious mistake and that it simply was not meant to would live so fine. But as the years go by, the facade worn, the wood cracks here and there, and you start to love this house not so much for all the ways it is perfect in that for all the ways it is not. You become familiar with all its nooks and crannies. How to avoid that the key gets stuck in the lock if it is cold outside. Which floorboards have some give when you step on them, and exactly how to open the doors for them not to creak. That's it, all the little secrets that make it your home.”
― A Man Called Ove
― A Man Called Ove
“I love, because my love is not dependent on the object of love. My love is dependent on my state of being. So whether the other person changes, becomes different, friend turns into a foe, does not matter, because my love was never dependent on the other person. My love is my state of being. I simply love.”
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“The world seemed to me fine because you were in it, and goodness more real because you lived.”
― An Ideal Husband
― An Ideal Husband
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