Forbidden love Quote by Elif Shafak

“Love is the cruelest myth of all.”

— Marie Hall

“I believe legends and myths are largely made of truth..”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

“Great stories are sacred, whether they're true or not.”

— Maria Kvilhaug

“So the princess discovered that when one loves a forbidden thing, one loses what ones loves most. This truth is a hard won battle…

— David Mains

“Myths are lies; but I believe in the power of myths the way I believe in rocks.”

— S.M. Stirling

“Our myths, our legends, aren't necessarily true, but they are truly necessary. They have to do with the way we interpret the world and…

— Jo Walton

“The wisdom of stories and legends is that they give us another way to understand ourselves and the place we inhabit.”

— James C. Christensen

“There's always someone who secretly believes in myths and legends; or at least parts of them. Those are the people who will look beyond…

— Aprilynne Pike

“To be capable of great love, (that of myths, legends, and fairy tales), one must have had more so, greatly suffered, (that of bleeding…

— Cody Edward Lee Miller

“Myth is stories about the way things never were, but always are.”

— Marcus Borg

“Even in its first faint traces, love could alter a landscape. It wrote unimagined stories and made the most beautiful, forbidding places.”

— Anna-Marie McLemore

“The greatest stories ever told trace a path through the charred and exalted landscape of romantic love.”

— Elizabeth Lesser