Mozart in the Jungle
Season 2, Episode 3
"Amateur." You say that as if it was a dirty word or something, but "amateur" comes from the Latin word "amare," which means love, love. To do things for the love of it.
A Tale for the Time Being (2013)
Ruth Ozeki
Nao, 1.
Actually, it doesn’t matter very much, because by the time you read this, everything will be different, and you will be nowhere in particular, flipping idly through the pages of this book, which happens to be the diary of my last days on earth, wondering if you should keep on reading.
The Bluest Eye (1970)
Toni Morrison
Summer, Claudia MacTeer
Love is never any better than the lover. Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe. There is no gift for the beloved. The lover alone possesses his gift of love. The loved one is shorn, neutralized, frozen in the glare of the lover’s inward eye