Then he kissed her. At his lips' touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete.
Interpretation
This quote illustrates a moment of deep romantic connection where love transforms the beloved.
In this quote, F. Scott Fitzgerald captures the essence of love as a transformative force. The act of kissing becomes a powerful metaphor for the awakening of emotions and the blossoming of a relationship, akin to a flower coming into full bloom. The phrase 'the incarnation was complete' suggests that the connection between the two individuals transcends mere physicality, reaching a profound spiritual or emotional realization.
In practice
A person might share this quote during a wedding ceremony to highlight the beauty of love.
Don't be so anxious about it,' she laughed. 'I'm not used to being loved. I wouldn't know what to do; I never got the trick of it.' She looked down at him, shy and fatigued. 'So here we are. I told you years ago that I had the makings of Cinderella.' He took her hand; she drew it back instinctively and then replaced it in his. 'Beg your pardon. Not even used to being touched. But I'm not afraid of you, if you stay quiet and don't move suddenly.
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
It was about then [1920] that I wrote a line which certain people will not let me forget: "She was a faded but still lovely woman of twenty-seven."
The words seemed to bite physically into Gatsby.
But you can love more than just one person, can't you?
A sudden gust of rain blew over them and then another - as if small liquid clouds were bouncing along the land. Lightning entered the sea far off and the air blew full of crackling thunder. The table cloths blew around the pillars. They blew and blew and blew. The flags twisted around the red chairs like live things, the banners were ragged, the corners of the table tore off through the burbling billowing ends of the cloths.
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.
I love thee; none but thee, and thou deservest it
God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, 'I love you.'
Gay and lesbian people want to love and be loved. Some of us want to get married. Some want to have and build families. We want our kids to have their lives be a little bit better than what we've had.
How can I be kind? How can I find bird-relief in the nest-building of day-to-day? Necessity supplies no velvet wing with which to escape. I am indeed and mortally pierced with the seeds of love.
Charity means love towards the neighbor and compassion, for anyone who loves his neighbor as himself also has as much compassion for him in his suffering as he does for himself in his own.
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