“Not just beautiful, though—the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they’re watching me.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“It’s isn’t exciting. It isn’t as poetic, or romantic as it seems to be on television and books. It doesn’t just ‘go away’ when love or some miracle worker comes along. It stays. It lingers.”— Snigdha Chopra, thoughtcatalog.com
“Soul mate. Knight in shining armor. These terms permeate women’s profiles, and yet it probably comes as no surprise that men get skittish when they see poetic language along these lines.”— Laura Gilbert, match.com