Field Notes on Love
Jennifer E. Smith
Top 10 Best Quotes
“What do you love most about the world?” Ida smiles. “I love that every generation thinks they’ve invented it. They think they’re the first ones to fall in love and get their hearts broken, to feel loss and passion and pain. And in a way, they are. We’ve been there before, of course. But for young people, that doesn’t matter. Everything is new. Which I love, because it means everything is always beginning again. It’s hopeful, I think. At least to me.”
“Do you ever feel like what’s happening at this moment will never happen again? Like you could never repeat it, no matter how hard you tried?”
“Most things are easier than you think,” she says. “It’s deciding to do them that’s hard.”
“That’s the thing. You almost never know when you’re saying goodbye to someone forever.”
“Love is... I don't know. Something bigger than that. It's like the sun." "In that you can get burnt by it?" "No," she says wearily, but already her eyes have that starry quality they get whenever she's thinking of Alex. "In that it makes everything brighter and happier. And it warms you from the inside out.”
“His heart aches, not because he loves her—he hasn’t for a long time now—but because he loved her once, and that’s something that never completely leaves you.”
“It’s not supposed to reflect reality,” she said. “Reality is all well and good. But sometimes you just want to pretend the world is a better place than it actually is. That great and wonderful things can happen. That love triumphs over everything.”
“It's like I'd been living on a map my whole life and have only now realized the world is actually a globe.”
“Love isn’t magic. It doesn’t transcend time and space. It doesn’t fix anything. It’s just love.”
“what do you love most about the world?" Ida smiles. "I love that every generation thinks they've invented it. They think they're the first ones to fall in love and get their hearts broken, to feel loss and passion and pain. And in a way, they are. We've been there before, of course. But for young people, that doesn't matter. Everything is new. Which I love, because it means everything is always beginning again. It's hopeful, I think. At least to me.”
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