He loved her, of course, but better than that, he chose her, day after day. Choice: that was the thing.
Interpretation
Love is not just a feeling but a continuous choice to commit to someone every day.
This quote emphasizes that true love involves an active decision to choose a partner repeatedly, rather than merely feeling love passively. It highlights the significance of choice and commitment in a relationship, suggesting that love flourishes through conscious decisions made consistently over time.
In practice
In a wedding ceremony, to emphasize the importance of choosing a partner for life.
Gordie, the white boy genius, gave me this book by a Russian dude named Tolstoy, who wrote, 'Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.' Well, I hate to argue with a Russian genius, but Tolstoy didn't know Indians, and he didn't know that all Indian families are unhappy for the same exact reasons: the frikkin' booze.
My wife was the first romantic partner who understood both American and native parts of me - not so much the positive stuff, but the damage.
I draw because words are too unpredictable. I draw because words are too limited. If you speak and write in English, or Spanish, or Chinese, or any other language, then only a certain percentage of human beings will get your meaning. But when you draw a picture everybody can understand it. If I draw a cartoon of a flower, then every man, woman, and child in the world can look at it and say, "That's a flower.
We all have to find our own ways to say good-bye.
I write books for teenagers because I vividly remember what it felt like to be a teen facing everyday and epic dangers. I don't write to protect them. It's far too late for that. I write to give them weapons-in the form of words and ideas-that will help them fight their monsters. I write in blood because I remember what it felt like to bleed.
A lot of people have no idea that right now Y.A. (young adult). is the Garden of Eden of literature.
Happiness is in your ability to love others.
Fate,Time,Occasion,Chance, and Change? To these All things are subject but eternal love.
A lover exists only in fragments, a dozen or so if the romance is new, a thousand if we're married to him, and out of those fragments our heart constructs an entire person. What we each create, since whatever is missing is filled by our imagination, is the person we wish him to be. The less we know him, of course, the more we love him. And that's why we always remember that first rapturous night when he was a stranger, and why this rapture returns only when he's dead.
For you I know I'd even try to turn the tide.
We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
No woman is worth more than a fiver unless you're in love with her. Then she's worth all she costs you.
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