That's the trouble with grand passions, of course. You can never entirely cleanse yourself of them. It's best to avoid them altogether.

Tasha Alexander
About This Quote

To show a person your love, you need to be able to give up things that are important to you. In order to do this, you have to reach a point where you are no longer attached to those things. It’s not easy to sacrifice something that is important to you. To love another person, sometimes the only way a person can reach a point of detachment is by going through pain.

Source: A Fatal Waltz

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