“He never forgot what he learned and that was to love is to destroy and to be love is to be the one destroyed.”
“The boy never cried again, and he never forgot what he'd learned: that to love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed.”
“Later, when his father left him, the boy cried over his pet, until eventually his father sent a servant to take the body of the bird away and bury it. The boy never cried again, and he never forgot what he'd learned: that to love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed.”
“Yet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy; he does know how to destroy, and that is half the battle.”
“to love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed.”
“People as old and powerful as he should never be given someone to love. For Anna he would destroy the world.”