David Gemmell on Valentine's Day
1948–2006 England
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This world has few redeeming features, and one is the capacity for people to love one another with great, enduring passion.
Most wars are fought for greed, but we are luckier here—we fight for our lives and the lives of the people we love.
'A man should not risk his life for beauty alone, Kiall, for that fades. You might as well risk it for a rose. Think on it.'
One day you'll find a love, and then we can talk on equal terms.
Love, as I hope you will find, has great power. Even death cannot destroy it.
'Love is for fools. It is a surging of blood in the loins ... there is no mystery, and no magic. Find someone else, my boy.'
...love is in the eyes, and one woman knows when another woman is in love.
Aye, it is hard when those we love leave the world. No denying it.
All beauty is sad. For it fades.
We are full of dreams [...] We long for the unattainable. We believe in the nonsense of fables. There is no pure love; there is lust and there is need.