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"The kind of violence one should fear is always quiet and comes all wrapped up in words like Love until you live with it daily and you value only that which is valuable to the violator."
"We are for ever trying to make our weakness look like strength, our sentiment like love, our cowardice like courage, and so on."
"Kind of like love before first sight.” and “Butterflies in your stomach. That was such a crappy metaphor. More like killer bees."
"Brigitte Bardot was one of the first women to be really modern and treat men like love objects, buying them and discarding them. I like that."
"Poetry is another space, like love, where we extend that extra credit to the writer."
"I can't even think of the right word, but it's not "help." It's more like a prerequisite. I think connection is why we're here, it's what gives purpose and meaning to our lives, and belonging is in our DNA. And so "tribe" and "belonging" are irreducible needs, like love."
"Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions. What we have missed long enough to want it, we value more when it is regained; but that which has been lost till it is forgotten will be found at last with little gladness, and with still less if a substitute has supplied the place."
"Some people would claim that things like love, joy and beauty belong to a different category from science and can't be described in scientific terms, but I think they can now be explained by the theory of evolution."
"Sovereign," like "love," means anything you want it to mean; it's a word in dictionary between "sober" and "sozzled."
"What was the difference between love and the agony of waiting? Like love, the agony of waiting began in the muscles and somewhere around the upper belly but soon spread out to the chest, the thighs, and the forehead, to invade the entire body with numbing force."
"It felt like love to me. It embraced me. I accepted it and thought, "Well, this is how [Dre] loves." I got that from my mother and from my grandmother, who were abused."
