Kathleen Norris - Love Quotes

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Jealousy can be like that, as anxious to be near to its object as love can be.

Kathleen Norris

When they were going to be flagrantly, brutally selfish, how men did love to talk of being fair!

Kathleen Norris

I couldn't see what repaid her, do you see? What made up to her for the unending, unending effort, and sacrifice, the pouring out of love and sympathy and help — year after year after year.

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Faithful, self-forgetting service, and the love that spends itself over and over, only to be renewed again and again, are the secret of happiness.

Kathleen Norris

There is no situation so high or so luxurious that it is not utterly dreary without friends; and there is no place so isolated and quiet and obscure but what we love it if the persons we love are there.

Kathleen Norris

Maybe the desert wisdom of the Dakotas can teach us to love anyway, to love what is dying, in the face of death, and not pretend that things are other than they are. The irony and wonder of all of this is that it is the desert's grimness, its stillness and isolation, that brings us back to love.

Kathleen Norris