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Love Quote by Eva Braun

"He has so often told me he is madly in love with me, but what does that mean when I haven't had a good word from him in three months?"

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Love, here, is a slogan - repeated until it starts to sound like policy. Braun’s line slices through the sentimental fog with the blunt instrument of time: three months of silence is not a “rough patch,” it’s evidence. The sentence is structured like a private reckoning, almost bureaucratic in its accounting. He “so often told me” becomes a ledger of declarations; “a good word…in three months” is the missing deposit. The intent is not to deny feeling but to indict its performance: if love only exists when spoken, and speech has stopped, what’s left besides the memory of being promised?

The subtext is sharper. “Madly in love” reads as theatrical, even adolescent, while “a good word” is modest - not passion, just basic care. That contrast exposes the unequal emotional economy: grand claims on his terms, emotional maintenance on hers. It’s also a quiet admission of how attention can function as currency in an orbit defined by power. She’s not asking for romance; she’s asking to be acknowledged.

Context makes the line chillier. Eva Braun’s public mythology tends to flatten her into a footnote - devotion, denial, decorative loyalty. This quote complicates that caricature by showing a person registering neglect, recognizing the gap between rhetoric and behavior. It’s the sound of someone briefly stepping outside a story she’s been assigned, testing its logic, and finding it wanting. The tragedy is that the clarity arrives as a question, not a decision.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Braun, Eva. (2026, January 15). He has so often told me he is madly in love with me, but what does that mean when I haven't had a good word from him in three months? FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/he-has-so-often-told-me-he-is-madly-in-love-with-158208/

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Braun, Eva. "He has so often told me he is madly in love with me, but what does that mean when I haven't had a good word from him in three months?" FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/he-has-so-often-told-me-he-is-madly-in-love-with-158208/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"He has so often told me he is madly in love with me, but what does that mean when I haven't had a good word from him in three months?" FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/he-has-so-often-told-me-he-is-madly-in-love-with-158208/. Accessed 5 Feb. 2026.

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Eva Braun

Eva Braun (February 6, 1912 - April 30, 1945) was a Celebrity from Germany.

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