Enduring Love Quotes

• The course of true love never did run smooth.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Life, Summer

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 1, sc. 1, l. 132

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• What idiocy, to racing into this story and its labyrinths, sprinting away from our happiness among the fresh spring grasses by the oak.

  Ian Mcewan

  Spring, Racing, Labyrinth

  Ian McEwan (2010). “Enduring Love”, p.1, Random House

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• Observing human variety can give pleasure, but so too can human sameness.

  Ian Mcewan

  Giving, Pleasure, Humans

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• I'm holding back, delaying the information. I'm lingering in the prior moment because it was a time when other outcomes were still possible.

  Ian Mcewan

  Outcomes, Information, Moments

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• love wasn't possible in just a couple of days. Love could be set in motion quickly, but true love needed time to grow into something strong and enduring. Love was, above all, about commitment and dedication and a belief that spending years with a certain person would create something greater than the sum of what the two can accomplish separately.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Strong, Couple, Commitment

  FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from Jan 30, 2012

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• For a mother's love is fashioned, After God's enduring love, It is endless and unfailing, Like the love of Him above.

  Helen Steiner Rice

  Family, Mother, Love Is

  Helen Steiner Rice (2011). “Daily Inspiration for Women: From the Poetry of Helen Steiner Rice”, p.101, Barbour Publishing

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• Mutual, respectful, enduring love is completely attainable as long as you swear you won't settle for less.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Love Is, Long, Settling

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.909, Scholastic Inc.

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• Many, many readers have written asking me wistfully about the nature of Sam and Grace's relationship, and I can assure you, that sort is absolutely real. Mutual, respectful, enduring love is completely attainable as long as you swear you won't settle for less.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Real, Love Is, Long

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.909, Scholastic Inc.

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• Matt Mason must be declared the poet laureate of the Midwest! No other native son celebrates the overlooked America, its unsung citizens (from the anonymous poets to the part-time English teachers), and its expansive indigenous landscape, as well as he does. Mason's poetry is humorous when he wants to be quirky, heartbreaking when he wants to be eloquent, and though he moves effortlessly into other moods and geographies, he always returns to his first and most enduring love (and to what he knows best)-his homeland.

  Rigoberto Gonzalez

  Teacher, Humorous, Moving

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• And so she shuddered away from the threat of his enduring love. What did he mean? Had she not the power to daunt him? She would see. It was more daring than became a man to threaten her.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Mean, Men, Daring

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.1082, Delphi Classics

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• First, you hand over some basics-overwhelming joy, existential angst, a giving-in to desire, etc. And then you promise to withstand talking idly about the weather, to encourage cliché, to uphold the virtues of average. You hand over the need to be understood and, in return, you get a bar of Normal soap. And you can wash in it and be daily reborn to a safe world of modest, enduring love or, at least, mild, well-mannered bonding.

  Julianna Baggott

  Love, Average, Hands

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