Home / Quotes / Quote by Antonella Gambotto-Burke

Quote by Antonella Gambotto-Burke

“We watched each other evolve into parents, with all the fear, rage and confusion evolution can involve. Our eight-year-old is the incarnation of our union; we are forever fused by her blood. My old take on romance seemed vaguely ludicrous, as affected as a pair of spats. I no longer saw the point in 'getting back to normal', that pantomime of pretending nothing had changed; I wanted to evolve from sexual posturing into a deeper consciousness, that of love.”

Quote by Antonella Gambotto-Burke

Author

Antonella Gambotto-Burke

Antonella Gambotto-Burke is an Italian-born author known for her works in history, culture, and cuisine. Born in September 1965, her writing style is characterized by in-depth research and vivid storytelling. more

You May Also Like

“For 'King Cole's American Salvage,' I rode around in the wrecker with a local driver and watched him deal with customers and hook up the cars. I watched the guy who tore apart the cars in the junkyard. I also wrote poems about those guys. I loved hanging around the yard.”

Love Age Guy Deals Car Kings Customers Locals Drivers Yards Hook Hanging Around Hook Up Salvage Junkyard

Author:Bonnie Jo Campbell

“A human being in this aged nation of ours is a very wonderful hole, the slow creation of long interchanging influences; and charm is a result of two such wholes, the one loving and the one loved.”

Love Humans Long Two Age Nations Human Beings Results Wonderful Influence Creation Holes Charm One Love

Author:George Eliot

“Now, after these things were done, the Pharaoh and his Queen drove through the hosts of Egypt in their golden chariot, and received the homage of the hosts ere they departed northwards for Thebes. At nightfall they returned again and sat side by side at the marriage feast, and once more Tua swept her harp of ivory and gold, and sang the ancient song of him who dared much for love, and won the prize.”

Love Done Age Song Sides Gold Ancient Golden Queens Sat Prize Host Egypt Homage Harps Ivory Departed Chariots Nightfall Pharaohs

Book:Morning Star

Source: Morning Star

“Never dreaming, was I, poor Jack Duluoz, that the soul is dead. That from Heaven grace descends . . . No Doctor Pisspot Poorpail to tell me; no example inside my first and only skin. That love is the heritage, and cousin to death. That the only love can only be the first love, the only death the last, the only life within, and the only word . . . choked forever.”

Love Firsts Soul Dream Age Lasts Heaven Love Is Poor Forever Grace Example Doctors Skins Heritage First Love Cousin Only Love Forever Love

Book:Maggie Cassidy

Source: Maggie Cassidy

“When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.”

“One of the age-old truths about love is that while it offers unparalleled opportunities for union and the lifting of ego boundaries, it also washes us up on the shores of the loved one's otherness. Sooner or later, love makes us feel inescapably separate.”

Love Feels Age Opportunity Love Is Offers Ego Unions Boundaries Shore Loved Ones Sooner Or Later Lifting Otherness

Book:Open to Desire: The Truth About What the Buddha Taught

Source: Open to Desire: The Truth About What the Buddha Taught

“...because one morning as the sun was coming up I told myself that I had to swallow up all of the fear and garbage around me, and once it was inside me I had to transform it all into candy. Becuase I know you will be able to love me for it.”

Knows Love Age Able Morning Sun Candy Garbage

Author:Mian Mian

“Yet there were times when he did love her with all the kindness she demanded, and how was she to know what were those times? Alone she raged against his cheerfulness and put herself at the mercy of her own love and longed to be free of it because it made her less than he and dependent on him. But how could she be free of chains she had put upon herself? Her soul was all tempest. The dreams she had once had of her life were dead. She was in prison in the house. And yet who was her jailer except herself?”

Knows Love Made Soul Dream Age House Kindness Self Love Mercy Prison Chains Dependent Cheerfulness Tempest Alone Time Jailer

Author:Pearl S. Buck

“The tragedy in his life already existed. To love an atmospheric spirit. That was the real sorrow. Hopelessness itself. Nowhere on the printed page, nowhere in the annals of man, would her name appear: no local habitation, no name. There are girls like that, he thought, and those you love most, the ones where there is no hope because it has eluded you at the very moment you close your hands around it.”

Men Love Real Moments Hands Age Spirit Girl Names Sorrow Pages Tragedy Locals Hopelessness Printed No Hope Those You Love

Book:Five Novels of the 1960s & 70s

Source: Five Novels of the 1960s & 70s

“You can't make flivers without steel - and you can't make tragedies without social instability. The world's stable now. People are happy; they get what they want, and they never want what they can't get. They're well off; they're safe; they're never ill; they're not afraid of death; they're blissfully ignorant of passion and old age; they're plagued with no mothers or fathers; they've got no wives, or children, or lovers to feel strongly about; they're so conditioned that they pratically can't help behaving as they ought to behave.”