Oh, love, what an unreasoning creature it grew to be.
Interpretation
Love can be irrational and difficult to understand.
In this quote, Edna O'Brien reflects on the unpredictable and often irrational nature of love, suggesting that it can lead to emotions and actions that defy logic and reason. This captures the complexity of romantic feelings, highlighting that love can sometimes make us act contrary to our better judgment or understanding.
In practice
During a wedding speech to illustrate the complexities of love.
Love . . . is like nature, but in reverse; first it fruits, then it flowers, then it seems to wither, then it goes deep, deep down into its burrow, where no one sees it, where it is lost from sight, and ultimately people die with that secret buried inside their souls.
That is the mystery about writing: it comes out of afflictions, out of the gouged times, when the heart is cut open.
Cities, in many ways, are the best repositories for a love affair. You are in a forest or a cornfield, you are walking by the seashore, footprint after footprint of trodden sand, and somehow the kiss or the spoken covenant gets lost in the vastness and indifference of nature. In a city there are places to remind us of what has been.
Darkness is drawn to light, but light does not know it; light must absorb the darkness and therefore meet its own extinguishment.
Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.
It was the first time that I came face to face with madness and feared it and was fascinated by it.
His love for my mother wasn't about looking back and loving something that would never change. It was about loving my mother for everything -- for her brokenness and her fleeing, for her being there right then in that moment before the sun rose and the hospital staff came in. It was about touching that hair with the side of his fingertip, and knowing yet plumbing fearlessly the depths of her ocean eyes.
We had a happy marriage because we were together all the time. We were friends as well as husband and wife. We just had a good time.
If you have this extraordinary thing going in your life, then it is everything; then you become the teacher, the disciple, the neighbour, the beauty of the cloud - you are all that, and that is love.
Shalt show us how divine a thing A woman may be made.
Love God, love your neighbors, and do stuff!
I want to do everything in the world with you.
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