Peony in Love
Lisa See
Top 10 Best Quotes
“He was in my hair, my eyes, my fingers, my heart. I day-dreamed about what he was doing, thinking, seeing, smelling, feeling. I could not eat for thoughts of him.”
“In that moment I understood that the cruelest words in the universe are if only.”
“I've come to believe that part of lovesickness comes from this conflict between control and desire. In love we have no control. Our hearts and minds are tormented, teased, enticed and delighted by the overwhelming strength of emotions that make us try to forget the real world.”
“All women on earth-- and men, too for that matter-- hope for the kind of love that transforms us, raises us up out of the everyday, & gives us the courage to survive our little deaths: the heartache of unfulfilled dreams, of career and personal disappointments, of broken love affairs.”
“When people are alive they love, when they die, they keep loving. If love ends when person dies, that is not real love”
“How can we not create a fantasy in our minds when the reality is so hard?”
“My heart is empty & my life has no value anymore. Each moment a thousand tears.”
“Dreaming, dreaming, dreaming -- weren't our dreams what gave us strength, hope, and desire?”
“Perhaps he was afraid as I was that we'd be caught. Or perhaps he was breathing me in just as I was letting him come into my lungs, my eyes, my heart.”
“I didn't know you would be here last night, but you were. We can't fight fate. Instead, we must accept that fate has given us a special opportunity.”
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Book Keywords:
regret, lust, love, longing, regrets, love-at-first-sight
