Love; Charles M Shultz
All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.
-Charles M Shultz
Education; Sandman
I’ve been making a list of the things they don’t teach you at school. They don’t teach you how to love somebody. They don’t teach you how to be famous. They don’t teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don’t teach you how to walk away from someone you don’t love any longer. They don’t teach you how to know what’s going on in someone else’s mind. They don’t teach you what to say to someone who’s dying. They don’t teach you anything worth knowing.
-Neil Gaiman, Sandman
Heartbreak; Madame la Fleurie
It was a page he had
Found in the handbook
Of heartbreak.
-Wallace Stevens, “Madame la Fleurie” Collected Poems
Love; The Witches
“My darling,” she said at last, “are you sure you don’t mind being a mouse for the rest of your life?”
“I don’t mind at all,” I said. “It doesn’t matter who you are or what you look like so long as somebody loves you.”
-Roald Dahl, The Witches
Destructive Love; The Bluest Eye
Along with romantic love, she was introduced to another–physical beauty. Probably the most destructive ideas in the history of thought. Both originated in envy, thrived in insecurity, and ended in disillusion. In equating physical beauty with virtue, she stripped her mind, bound it, and collected self-contempt by the heap. She forgot lust and simple caring for. She regarded love as possessive mating, and romance as the goal of the spirit. It would be for her a well-spring from which she would draw the most destructive emotions, deceiving the lover, and seeking to imprison the beloved, curtailing freedom in every way.
-Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye
Love; Anonymous
Love is giving someone the chance to break your heart, but trusting them not to.
-Anonymous
Dreams; The Great Gatsby
And as I sat there, brooding on the old unknown world, I thought of Gatsby’s wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy’s dock. He hd come a long way to this blue lawn and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him, somewhere back in that vast obscurity beyond the city, where the dark fields of the republic rolled on under the night.
Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter–tomorrow we will run faster, stretch our arms out farther…And one fine morning–So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
-F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Friends; The Great Gatsby
“Let us learn to show friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.”
-Wolfshiem; F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Accident; The Great Gatsby
“It takes two to make an accident.”
-Jordan, F Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Love; The Doubter’s Companion
“Love: a term that has no meaning if defined.”
