Bourgeois-society Quote by Anaïs Nin

“There was fear in those lovely young features, most certainly. No one but a fool would not be frightened at a time like this.…

— Janette Oke

“...some small part of her had reacted to the passion inside him. Despite his role as a titled gentleman, there seemed to be a…

— Brenda Novak

“Risky, thought Paul D, very risky. For a used-to-be-slave woman to love anything that much was dangerous, especially if it was her children she…

— Toni Morrison

“She believed that unadulterated devotion had its share of protective power, as if love were a steel grinder that Fates could not snip through.…

— Jodi Picoult

“Was it the wounded places down inside people that sought each other out, that bred a kind of love between them?”

— Sue Monk Kidd

“He’d seen what became of men who sacrificed their hearts’ desires for security.”

— Ginn Hale

“There was something about total loyalty, uncritical devotion, endless patience, perpetual forgiveness and the general inability to believe that a loved one could ever…

— Joanne Harris

“She felt like a child clad in the armour of an adult. She was perplexed at the respect she received from other adults; she…

— Jerold J. Kreisman

“For what is love but a great rebellion against caution and sense?”

— Meredith Duran

“[...] that hearts that loved boys and girls were no more reckless or easily won than any other heart. They loved who they loved.…

— Anna-Marie McLemore

“Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke