Fairy-tales-retold Quote by H. A. Lamb

“Love was not a comfortable feeling. No wonder I tried to avoid it.”

— Fabian Black

“But wasn’t it better to have someone who was always gushing annoyingly about love than someone who was reserved with it?”

— Heather O'Neill

“I didn't know it was possible to love someone other than you so much.”

— Sylvain Reynard

“I didn't want to fall in love with anyone. I wasn't ready for that. I've been through that once, and afterwards I was a…

— Nicholas Sparks

“It wasn't easy to understand how the love between two other people could diminish you.”

— Meg Wolitzer

“I cannot think of what it was not to love him. To look at him and realise I had found what I had not…

— Hannah Kent

“I did not want to voice a word that would lift the cover and reveal that hideous emotion I always felt for her, the…

— Philip Roth

“She didn’t want love, she wanted to be loved— and that was entirely different.”

— Atticus Poetry

“I feared rejection. I feared that love wouldn't last. I feared that love would be used against me. To hurt me. I feared that…

— Willow Aster

“I knew that now—that love wasn’t something you could do away with, no matter how hard you tried.”

— Jenny Han

“It was the kind of love you have for someone because you'll die inside if you don't love something.”

— Ronlyn Domingue

“Love was the ultimate act of courage, he understood now. Because you had to go into it knowing it could be snatched away by…

— Louisa Edwards