Once I fall in love, finishing a story leaves a hole in my heart. The characters become your friends.
Interpretation
Falling in love with a story creates a deep emotional connection with its characters.
This quote by Sarah J. Maas reflects the profound bond that readers develop with characters in a story. When one invests emotionally in a narrative, losing those characters at the end can feel akin to losing friends, highlighting the power of literature to evoke love and attachment.
In practice
This quote is perfect for a book club discussion about the emotional impact of literature.
Being missionaries means loving God with all one's heart, even to the point, if necessary, of dying for him... Being missionaries means stooping down to the needs of all, like the Good Samaritan, especially those of the poorest and most destitute people.
One forgives to the degree that one loves.
You who seek an end of love, love yields to business: be busy, and you will be safe.
Then let yourself love all that you take delight in_x000D_ _x000D_ Accept yourself whole, accept the heritage_x000D_ _x000D_ That shaped you and is passed on from age to age_x000D_ _x000D_ Down to your entity. Remain mysterious;_x000D_ _x000D_ Rather than be pure, accept yourself as numerous.
We have before us the glorious opportunity to inject a new dimension of love into the veins of our civilization.
She was a committed romantic and an anarcha-feminist. This was hard for her because it meant she couldn't blow up beautiful buildings. She knew the Eiffel Tower was a hideous symbol of phallic oppression but when ordered by her commander to detonate the lift so that no-one should unthinkingly scale an erection, her mind filled with young romantics gazing over Paris and opening aerograms that said Je t'aime.
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