Julianna Baggott Love Quotations

First, you hand over some basics-overwhelming joy, existential angst, a giving-in to desire, etc. And then you promise to withstand talking idly about the weather, to encourage cliché, to uphold the virtues of average. You hand over the need to be understood and, in return, you get a bar of Normal soap. And you can wash in it and be daily reborn to a safe world of modest, enduring love or, at least, mild, well-mannered bonding.

Our love is our burden.

Love is selfless, it is a weakness, a giving in, a constant falling.

Love is a luxury. It's something that people are allowed to indulge in when they're not simply trying to survive and keep other people alive.