Quotes by Mignon McLaughlin

“Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name.”

“The hardest-learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind.”

“We choose those we like; with those we love, we have no say in the matter.”

“No one can understand love who has not experienced infatuation. And no one can understand infatuation, no matter how many times he has experienced it.”

“The excesses of love soon pass, but its insufficiencies torment us forever.”

“Desire creates havoc when it is the only thing between two people, or when it is what's missing.”

“Mumps, measles, and puppy love are terrible after twenty.”

“When first we fall in love, we feel that we know all there is to know about life, and perhaps we are right.”

“Life is a mixed blessing, which we vainly try to unmix.”

“We are like people with short-term leases on summer cottages; we can never seem to make our provisions come out even with our stay.”

“Few of us write great novels; all of us live them.”

“Many of us are equal to life's emergencies who cannot bear its day-after-dayness.”