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.
My faith tradition is love your enemies. It's not complicated for me, if I aspire to be who I say I am. I am a Christian American. Literally written in the ideals of my faith is to love those who hate you. I don't see why that's so shocking.
What you will see is love coming out of the trees, love coming out of the sky, love coming out of the light. You will perceive love from everything around you. This is the state of bliss.
I spent your Wish on that doucheface,” I said into his chest. “Hazel Grace. No. I will grant you that you did spend my one and only Wish, but you did not spend it on him. You spent it on us.
Darkness is merely the absence of light, and fear is merely the absence of love. If we want to be rid of fear, we cannot fight it but must replace it with love.
God's love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.
Then Aragorn stooped and looked in her face, and it was indeed white as a lily, cold as frost, and hard as graven stone. But he bent and kissed her on the brow, and called her softly, saying: 'Éowyn Éomund's daughter, awake! For your enemy has passed away!' - Aragorn & Éowyn
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