TTT: Love Quotes

Posted on February 14, 2023February 14, 2023 by Sam @ Hissing Potatoes

Top Ten Tuesday is currently hosted by Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl. This week’s topic is Love/Valentine’s Day Freebie, so I chose to do ten of my favorite book quotes about love.

“A widow has freedoms a wife does not. But when I look at you, I do not see obstacles for my career, I see-” My face burned even more. “I see wings. A way to fly higher and further than I can on my own.” From In the Labyrinth of Drakes by Marie Brennan

There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort. From Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

What if I want him to throw me up against the wall and press against me with his whole body, as if he needed me to breathe? From How to Marry a Werewolf by Gail Carriger

You don't have to prove yourself. There are no scorecards in our heads tallying up how much you do for us on any given day for us to say, “Okay, he reached the limit, we love him.“ The fact that you love us is enough. From Love Slave for Two by Tymber Dalton

It is a poor critic who says that a lack of effect on them implies all others are insincere in their love. From The Wicked + The Divine by Kieron Gillen

Love wasn‘t a state change. Romance might be, and lust, and like, but they were just the preconditions. Love was the choice you made; day in, day out. From Always by Nicola Griffith

Maybe love shouldn‘t be built on a foundation of compromises, but maybe it can‘t exist without them either. Not the kind that forces two people into shapes they don‘t fit in, but the kind that loosens their grips, always leaves room to grow. Compromises that say, there will be a you-shaped space in my heart, and if your shape changes, I will adapt. From Book Lovers by Emily Henry

Then you must tell 'em dat love ain't somethin' lak uh grindstone dat's de same thing everywhere and do de same thing tuh everything it touch. Love is lak de sea. It's uh movin' thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it's different with every shore. From Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

People think that intimacy is about sex. But intimacy is about truth. When you realize you can tell someone your truth, when you can show yourself to them, when you stand in front of them bare and their response is “You're safe with me”—that's intimacy. From The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

The land loves us back. She loves us with beans and tomatoes, with roasting ears and blackberries and birdsongs. By a shower of gifts and a heavy rain of lessons. She provides for us and teaches us to provide for ourselves. That‘s what good mothers do.

I looked around at the garden and could feel her delight in giving us these beautiful raspberries, squash, basil, potatoes, asparagus, lettuce, kale and beets, broccoli, peppers, brussels sprouts, carrots, dill, onions, leeks, spinach. It reminded me of my little girls‘ answer to “How much do I love you?” “Thiiiiiiiis much,” with arms stretched wide, they replied.

from Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

4 thoughts on “TTT: Love Quotes”

Lydiaschoch February 14, 202310:22 am Reply

What lovely quotes.

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anovelglimpse February 14, 20231:10 pm Reply

I love a good love quote! Happy Valentine’s Day!

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Lauren @ Always Me February 14, 20234:20 pm Reply

Gail Carriger is one of my favorites and I’m so happy you included that quote!

Check out my TTT

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Susan February 15, 20238:53 am Reply

Great quotes! Love is so simple, but also so complicated—all at the same time.

Happy TTT (on a Wednesday)!

Susan
http://www.blogginboutbooks.com

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