F. Sionil José Quote

Perhaps, this is what love has always been, whether it is for a woman of for a cause — the readiness to give and not ask for anything in return, the unquestioning willingness to lose everything, even if that loss is as something as precious as life itself.


Ermita: A Novel (ed. 1988)


Perhaps, this is what love has always been, whether it is for a woman of for a cause — the readiness to give and not ask for anything in return,...

Perhaps, this is what love has always been, whether it is for a woman of for a cause — the readiness to give and not ask for anything in return,...

Perhaps, this is what love has always been, whether it is for a woman of for a cause — the readiness to give and not ask for anything in return,...

Perhaps, this is what love has always been, whether it is for a woman of for a cause — the readiness to give and not ask for anything in return,...