“Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only.”— Victor Hugo, amazon.com
“The friendship I have had in my heart for you has ripened into a deeper feeling, a feeling more beautiful, more pure, more sacred. Dare I name it you? Ah! It is love which makes me so bold!”— Margaret Mitchell, amazon.com
“If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you.”— A.A. Milne, amazon.com
“He was my North, my South, my East and West, my working week and my Sunday rest.”— W.H. Auden, amazon.com
“Love had caught him out of triviality and Maurice out of bewilderment in order that two imperfect souls might touch perfection.”— E. M. Forster, amazon.com
“You are my sympathy—my better self—my good angel—I am bound to you with a strong attachment. I think you good, gifted, lovely: a fervent, a solemn passion is conceived in my heart; it leans to you, draws you to my center and spring of life, wrap my existence about you—and, kindling in pure, powerful…”— Charlotte Brontà, amazon.com
“When you love something, it loves you back in whatever way it has to love.”— John Knowles, amazon.com