17 Quotes by Sherry D. Ficklin

No matter how many romantic poems you recite, no matter how many glorious tales of love you read, how can you really understand the condition if you've never found yourself in it?

What if I have nothing left to fight for? I say, my voice shaking."Then you fight until you find something to fight for. But the moment you stop fighting the current, the moment you surrender to it, that's when you are truly lost.

Love should never be a game.

I think that love can indeed be many things. But the one thing it will never be is practical. Love is irrational by its very nature. It demands passion, fire, and no less than absolute surrender. It is a longing, a burning that consumes you, leaving you without reason, or defense. When love comes, nothing can stand in its way.

I’m quite sure they are gone. And should we be set upon again, I’m sure young Sophie will defend your honor.

Because he is looking at me the way a man dying of thirst might look at a cask of water, as if his very life depends on bringing me to his lips.

I could live a hundred lifetimes inside his kiss, and it would never be enough.

And I would do it again. I would die a thousand times, if each time I could wake up to your face.

Sometimes, the only choices you have are horrible ones,” she says. “But you must still choose. That is when you know you are strong, and there is grace in the struggle.