All of her heart, a meaningless phrase, but correct and precise, too. She used her heart to love him, not her head, and not her words and not her thoughts or ideas or feelings or any other vehicle or object or device people use to deliver love or love-like things.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes that true love comes from the heart rather than intellect or superficial expressions.
In this quote, Charles Yu reflects on the nature of love, suggesting that genuine affection is best conveyed through the heart rather than through rationality or verbal expression. It implies that the essence of love transcends mere words or thoughts, highlighting the emotional and passionate aspect of how one loves another, portraying love as an instinctive and heartfelt connection.
In practice
In a wedding speech to highlight the deep connection between two people.
I had forgotten: this is what it feels like to live in time. The lurching forward, the sensation of falling of a cliff into darkness, and then landing abruptly, surprised, confused, and then starting the whole process again in the next moment, doing that over and over again, falling into each instant of time and then climbing back up only to repeat the process.
I am transcribing a book that I have, in a sense, not yet written, and in another sense, have always written, and in another sense, am currently writing, and in another sense, am always writing, and in another sense, will never write.
Enjoy the elastic present, which can accommodate as little or as much as you want to put in there. Stretch it out, live inside of it.
Maybe we spend most of our decades being someone else, avoiding ourselves, maybe a man is only himself, his true self, for a few days in his entire life.
You want to tell a story? Grow a heart. Grow two. Now, with the second heart, smash the first one into bits.
All work is empty save when there is love.
I think that if we can't go back, then we should try even harder to go forward. And I do want to go forward, to a place where loving someone because they have a gentle smile and a friendly hello is as easy as it once was.
Suffering can become a means to greater love and greater generosity.
Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.
God is to be worshiped as the one Beloved, dearer than everything in this and the next life.
I don't do great things. I do small things with great love.
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