Love Quote by Marilynne Robinson

“She imagined herself as some sort of vessel to be filled up with love. But it wasn't like that. The love was within her…

— Kim Edwards

“Her feelings about marriage were . . . fanciful and unrealistic.”

— Melanie Dickerson

“Love was something that sat comfortably in her dreams, so she never fully expected it to materialize.”

— Abby Slovin

“Her husband seemed to her now like a person whom she had married without love as an excuse.”

— Kate Chopin

“She needed the type of love that stayed no matter.”

— Tarryn Fisher

“How could he claim to love her, when he did not love what was essential in her?”

— Cecilia Grant

“And she understood now that love wasn’t just wanting, but a steady devotion, no matter what.”

— Shayla Black

“She was sure no one had ever been more in love than they were in those weeks, consumed by such longing, wanting to just…

— Catherine Lacey

“Still, she would not have married a man she knew full well did not love her, had there seemed any possible hope of a…

— Julie Klassen

“She'd like to say more, and explain that her years of marriage had so degraded her expectation of happiness that to sit cradling a…

— Sarah Perry

“She had agreed to marry him without realizing that marriage brought a kind a simple pleasure, a pleasure in the continued company of another…

— Robert Goolrick

“He loved her as though it had never occurred to him that he could feel otherwise. She wanted to be someone who deserved a…

— Claire Vaye Watkins