Because love stands above Darkness and Light. Because love is not sex or a shared faith, or "the joint maintenance of a household and the upbringing of children. "Because love is also Power. And Light and Darkness, people and Others, morality and law, the Ten Commandments and the Great Treaty have damn all to do with it.
It is most often not our strengths, our courage or our successes that bring two human hearts together, but it is often our shared vulnerability, our fears and our common failures that make us one.
There is no such thing as a soulmate. . . and who would want there to be? I don't want half of a shared soul. I want my own damn soul.
No two wars are ever the same. Some are just, some are unjust, but the basic commonality shared between them all is that young men and women heeded a call to service, overcame their fear, and fought for their side
There is no common understanding, and no community life. But in a shared activity, each person refers what he is doing to what the other is doing and vice-versa.
Happiness seems made to be shared.
The invention of writs was really the making of the English Common Law; and the credit of this momentous achievement, which took place chiefly between 1150 and 1250, must be shared between the officials of the royal Chancery, who framed new forms, and the royal judges, who either allowed them or quashed them.
. . . nothing broke my heart like the slow death of a shared joke that had once seemed genuinely funny.
We shared the same vision.
The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present.
Happiness is not perfected until it is shared.
The novel is a game or joke shared between author and reader.
The only shared reality we have is things we have seen on television.
I love my daughter. She and I have shared my body. There is a part of her mind that is a part of mine. But when she was born, she sprang from me like a slippery fish, and has been swimming away ever since.
Every social justice movement that I know of has come out of people sitting in small groups, telling their life stories, and discovering that other people have shared similar experiences.
The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we have books, we are not alone.
What we shared and what we were able to accomplish on the football field was something unbelievable.
We had a shared experience. That makes a good marriage better. In many ways our marriage is great because she has made it great.
Fasting and feasting are universal human responses, and any meal, shared with love, can be an agape.
Our relationship, our shared support, our consistency, is unrivaled by any other connection.