Love

Marriage: a deeply peculiar and ultimately unkind thing to inflict on anyone one claims to care for.

I have been seized by the power of a great affection.

Hollywood brides keep the bouquets and throw away the grooms.

I have such a rich fantasy life, I can't help it. I do make up a lot of romantic stories in my head.

I define influence simply as literary love, tempered by defense. The defenses vary from poet to poet. But the overwhelming presence of love is vital to understanding how great literature works.

As the dew drop slides down the leaf to wet the soil, they call it 'fall in love'. Yet, do we know the way up from the way down?

We’re seastnan, we live to protect, sometimes we die and I can’t think of a better way to go than fighting for someone I love.

He sang one whole verse directly to her, then, in fidelity to the song, he sent his vision inward to where his purest music was always found, and he looked at no one at all as he sang to Eanna herself, a hymn to names and the naming of things.

You’re right. The fact that the entire party of fifty guests caught you and Jill Moench kissing in the closet was a complete misunderstanding.' Theo snorted, turning to Penny, 'His girlfriend certainly got a surprise at her party. And it wasn’t the kind where everyone jumps out from behind the couch to yell, ‘Surprise!

When Hamid dropped Lata off at her house at nine that night, he felt hollow. The touch of her soft body was sheared from him like bark from a tree, and he spent the entire night tossing and turning.

Him that I love, I wish to be free -- even from me.

Finding out that you are not your lover’s only lover hurts, but not as much as discovering that you are the side chick … or the side dick.

When someone dumps you, it's heartbreaking and insulting and horrible, sure, but being the one who breaks up is almost as bad.

When a man truly loves a woman he will always try to make her life easier.

He gave everything to everybody. Except to me.

But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. What greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries the indignation of a pious spirit, with its natural following of oppressed souls, will cast down with a single shove.

There is nothing wrong with being a puppet if love is the one pulling the strings.

The idea that we are so capable of love but still choose to be toxic.

I have you fast in my fortress,And will not let you depart,But put you down into the dungeonIn the round-tower of my heart.And there will I keep you forever,Yes, forever and a day,Till the walls shall crumble to ruin,And moulder in dust away.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.