One True Loves Quotes
"If you want to do something, you have to do it."
"You are my one true love. I don’t even think I’m capable of loving anyone else."
"I’ll love you until we’re so old we can barely walk on our own and we have to get walkers and put those cut-up yellow tennis balls on them."
"I think that I wanted to settle down one day."
"We had created a life of spontaneous adventure."
"I couldn’t very well change the entire modus operandi of our lives."
"Jesse didn’t call to wish me a happy anniversary."
"I cried for him, and for what I’d lost, and for every day left of my life that I had left to live without him."
"You think you know who you are, you think you have your identity down pat, signed and sealed in a box that you call 'me,' and then you realize you’re attracted to musicians—that 'dexterous' is sexy to you."
"I have to move through it, like swimming in an undertow."
"Good things don’t wait until you’re ready. Sometimes they come right before, when you’re almost there."
"To be honest, I think it was too painful for all of us."
"The only change she can see is my short, blond hair."
"The Lord works in mysterious ways but I am stunned, humbled really, at what a gift today is."
"You know how every once in a while you look back on your life and you wonder how so much time has passed?"
"It’s almost terrifying, how much it defies logic and reason."
"Because ever since I heard he was back, I haven’t been happy for you."
"I love you so much. I love waking up with you on Sunday mornings."
"I have always thought of Jesse as my other half, as a person that I know as well as I know myself."
"It’s now so hot in the car that I feel like I have a fever."
"Every time you love, everyone you love, the love is different."
"I love him enough to wait for a little while until you figure it out."
"We don’t really care about pleasure. We are aching to be felt by the other."
"I feel like my entire body is an open wound and I’m standing next to someone that may or may not pour salt all over me."
"Sometimes I worry Jesse could lead me into hell and I’d follow along, naively saying things like, ‘Is it getting hot to you?’"
"I thought that maybe if I shoved the pain in there hard enough and I kept the box shut tight enough that the pain would evaporate on its own."
"Do you ever get over loss? Or do you just find a box within yourself, big enough to hold it?"
"But I’m sitting in this car right now and I’m starting to think that the box has been full for the past three and a half years."
"Romantic love is a beautiful thing under the right circumstances. But those circumstances are so specific and rare, aren’t they?"
"By loving the two of them, I am no longer sure about either. And by being unsure, I might just lose them both."
"They say that when you remember something, you are really remembering the last time you remembered it."
"I’ve never been more confused or felt less like myself."
"I have changed over time. That’s what people do."
"You can’t capture love in a bottle. You can’t hold on to it with both hands and force it to stay with you."
"Don’t ever let anyone tell you the most romantic part of love is the beginning. The most romantic part is when you know it has to end."
"Falling out of love with someone you still like feels exactly like lying in a warm bed and hearing the alarm clock."
"I don’t think that true love means your only love. I think true love means loving truly."
"Maybe, if you’re the kind of person who’s willing to give all of yourself, the kind of person who is willing to love with all of your heart even though you’ve experienced just how much it can hurt... maybe you get lots of true loves, then. Maybe that’s the gift you get for being brave."
"It’s messy to love after heartbreak. It’s painful and it forces you to be honest with yourself about who you are. You have to work harder to find the words for your feelings, because they don’t fit into any prefabricated boxes."
"Just because something isn’t meant to last a lifetime doesn’t mean it wasn’t meant to be."