“I would far rather have two or three lilies of the valley gathered for me by a person I like, than the most expensive bouquet that could be bought.”— Elizabeth Gaskell, amazon.com
“I'm all out of midnight phone calls and flowers sent to your door. I'm out of throwing letters off fire escapes and drawing a cathedral in the sand. I'm out of spray-painting your name on freeway overpasses. I'm low on cute names given between blankets at 9am. I've got no dramatic displays of public…”— Iain Thomas, amazon.ca
“Given the right psychological conditions, a person could fall in love with anyone.”— Miranda July, amazon.com
“Tonight the stars burn ferociously against this midnight canvas. We lie beneath it all, naught but two ineloquent humans scrambling for answers. Our faces lost in shadow, our eyes dancing to the thrum of our heartbeats in the twilight.”— Alison Malee, amazon.com
“Stop loving people who will never know how to pronounce your name with the magic that it deserves.”— Nikita Gill, meanwhilepoetry.tumblr.com
“I do not want to look for a mad passionate affair. Not because I’m frightened but because, please believe me, I do not want a lover. I want a friend.”— Anne Sexton, amazon.com
“We want something that’s very passionate, or boiling, from the get-go. In the past, people weren’t looking for something boiling; they just needed some water. Once they found it and committed to a life together, they did their best to heat things up. Now, if things aren’t boiling, committing to marr…”— Aziz Ansari, amazon.com
“What if you didn’t run? This one time. What if you stayed, and let love overtake you?”— Dr. Joshua Bennett, twitter.com
“Why don’t you tell me that, ‘if the girl had been worth having she’d have waited for you?' 'No, sir, the girl really worth having won’t wait for anybody.'”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com
“They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com