With the nearing Valentine’s Day looming to yet glorify our traditional, unattainable notion of love, there’s nothing like unconventional ideas about this most sought after feeling from people who feel things more deeply and elucidate them with the right words.
Some authors, adept at constructing imaginary stories, portray a harder grip on the reality of love found or lost than most of us do. If you’re longing to escape from the holiday’s cliché and commercialism, consider taking these advice from nine famous writers featured by Amanda Scherker on Huffington Post.
1. Lemony Snicket in his novel, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can’t Avoid
Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby: awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess.
2. Zelda Fitzgerald in her novel, Save Me The Waltz
Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
3. Oscar Wilde in his novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
4. Maya Angelou in her poem, Touched By An Angel
In the flush of love’s light
we dare be brave,
And suddenly we see
that love costs all we are
and will ever be.
Yet, it is only love
which sets us free.
5. Bill Watterson, author and artist of Calvin & Hobbes
I wish I had more friends, but people are such jerks. If you can just get most people to leave you alone, you’re doing good. If you can find even one person you really like, you’re lucky. And if that person can also stand you, you’re really lucky.
6. Toni Morison in her novel, Jazz
Don’t ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
7. Agatha Christie in her book, An Autobiography
It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.
8. Roald Dahl in his children’s book, The Witches
It doesn’t matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you.
9. Kurt Vonnegut in his novel, The Sirens of Titan
A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
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