"The power of love is the strongest thing in the universe and that's why even the grimmest situation is not without hope" — comforting but trite, requires no depth or mass behind it in order to reassure, and giving it the appropriate weight tends to get in the way of giving it direct credit
"The power of love is the strongest thing in the universe and that's why the stars themselves exploit it as the foundation for their tyranny" — novel, compelling, horrifying, creates the necessity to scrutinise love in order to understand how to manipulate it and hope to find a weakness, raises the question of whether the only thing that can stop a bad guy with the power of love is a good guy with the power of love
