Love Quotes Quote by Renee Ahdieh, The Wrath and the Dawn — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“She was a dangerous, dangerous girl. A plague. A Mountain of Adamant who tore the iron from ships, sinking them to their watery graves without a second thought. With a mere smile and a wrinkle of her nose.”

“Love is a force unto itself, sayyidi. For love, people consider the unthinkable...and often achieve the impossible. I would not sneer at its power.”

“Love is—a shade of what I feel.”

“You honestly expect me to breathe in a world without air?”

“You have a beautiful laugh. Like the promise of tomorrow.”

“Get up, Shahrzad al-Khayzuran. You kneel before no one. Least of all me.”

“Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it inflames the great.”

“She's my kitten, and no one else's.”

“Hate can be a deeply stimulating emotion. The world becomes easier to understand and much less terrifying if you divide everything and everyone into friends and enemies, we and they, good and evil. The easiest way to unite a group isn't through love, because love is hard, It makes demands. Hate is simple. So the first thing that happens in a conflict is that we choose a side, because that's easier than trying to hold two thoughts in our heads at the same time. The second thing that happens is that we seek out facts that confirm what we want to believe - comforting facts, ones that permit life to go on as normal. The third is that we dehumanize our enemy.”

“Do you know what hurts so very much? It's love. Love is the strongest force in the world, and when it is blocked that means pain. There are two things we can do when this happens. We can kill that love so that it stops hurting. But then of course part of us dies, too. Or we can ask God to open up another route for that love to travel.”