“In the first flush of a romantic love, we’re all blind. We see only what we want to see.”— Peter Morgan, Queen Elizabeth II, Claire Foy, imdb.com
“Anyway, so I feel like the western obsession with romantic love is symptomatic of the absence of community we experience in our socially isolating society.”— @riverselkie, riverselkie.tumblr.com
“You cannot eat love, nor buy a horse with it, nor warm your halls on a cold night.”— George R. R. Martin, Tywin Lannister, amazon.com
“Even today, romantic love is just not part of my life. And you know what? That's okay with me.”— Temple Grandin, amazon.com
“What’s Valentine’s Day about except the desperate search to find someone to spend Valentine’s Day with? It just shows that love has become a marketing campaign, like everything else. You buy into it and lose everything.”— David Levithan, amazon.com
“It’s not that I can’t fall in love. It’s really that I can’t help falling in love with too many things all at once. So, you must understand why I can’t distinguish between what’s platonic and what isn’t, because it’s all too much and not enough at the same time.”— Jack Kerouac, en.wikiquote.org
“Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star.”— E. E Cummings, amazon.com
“In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person.”— Margaret Anderson, amazon.com