Their love was a bright flower, youthful and radiantly beautiful.
Interpretation
This quote symbolizes love as something vibrant and beautiful, akin to a flowering plant.
Madeleine L'Engle uses the metaphor of a bright flower to illustrate the nature of love, emphasizing its beauty and vitality. The description of love as youthful and radiantly beautiful suggests an enduring joy and freshness that can be obtained through relationships, highlighting the positive and uplifting aspects typically associated with love.
In practice
In a wedding speech, one might say, 'Their love was a bright flower, youthful and radiantly beautiful, and it brings joy to all of us.'
Truth is what is true, and it's not necessarily factual. Truth and fact are not the same thing. Truth does not contradict or deny facts, but it goes through and beyond facts. This is something that it is very difficult for some people to understand. Truth can be dangerous.
George MacDonald gives me renewed strength during times of trouble--times when I have seen people tempted to deny God--when he says, "The Son of God suffered unto death, not that men might not suffer, but that their sufferings might be like his.
If you don't recount your family history, it will be lost. Honor your own stories and tell them too. The tales may not seem very important, but they are what binds families and makes each of us who we are.
I never want to lose the story-loving child within me, or the adolescent, or the young woman, or the middle-aged one, because all together they help me to be fully alive on this journey, and show me that I must be willing to go where it takes me, even through the valley of the shadow.
The minute we begin to think we have all the answers, we forget the questions.
When we believe in the impossible, it becomes possible, and we can do all kinds of extraordinary things.
I happen to be colorblind. Racism is not my motto. One day, I strongly expect every color to love as one family.
I loved you backward and forward in time. I loved you beyond boundaries of time and space.
I kept glancing at him and away from him, as if his green eyes were hurting me. In modern parlance he was a laser beam. Deadly and delicate he seemed. His victims had always loved him. And I had always loved him, hadn't I, no matter what happened, and how strong could love grow if you had eternity to nourish it, and it took only these few moments in time to renew its momentum, its heat? -Lestat
But nothing is so strange when one is in love (and what was this except being in love?) as the complete indifference of other people.
Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.
But from a distance. I would have left you whole and wholly for the delectation of those who wanted more and cared less.
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