Abnegation Quote by Veronica Roth

I knew by the way he looked at her that he held her in a higher regard than he held even himself. No selfishness…

— Veronica Roth

“No selfishness or insecurity kept him from seeing the full extent of her goodness, as it so often does with the rest of us.…

— Veronica Roth

He loved her because it was his nature to do so, but there were times when he could not endure her love for him.…

— Flannery O'Connor

Only love makes fruitful the soul. The sense of form that both had in such high degree prevented much demonstration; but to be with…

— John Galsworthy

She could not admit but that he had remarkable qualities, sometimes she thought that there was even in him a strange and unattractive greatness;…

— W. Somerset Maugham

It was strange the way he loved her; a side long and almost casual love, as if loving her were simply a matter of…

— Chad Harbach

It was like him, too, to love her and admit to it before he knew if she loved him. Maybe only mortals expected to…

— Emma Bull

She loved him not only in spite of but because he himself was incapable of love.

— William Faulkner

She knew that he loved her above all else, more than anything in the world, but only for his own sake.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

There was a warmth of fury in his last phrases. He meant she loved him more than he her. Perhaps he could not love…

— D. H. Lawrence

If she loved him the way she said she did, she wanted him whole. Maybe this was what love meant after all: sacrifice and…

— Melissa de la Cruz

He could deal with his guilt all by himself. Guilt didn't add up to love, an emotion she was done with forever.

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips