"The minute I heard my first love story,
I started looking for you, not knowing
how blind that was.
Lovers don't finally meet somewhere.
They're in each other all along."
— Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi (The Illuminated Rumi)

"The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I'm thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho. You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad."
— Erica Jong

"Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along."
— Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

"If you look closely you'll find all my lovers inscribed on my skin."
— Jill Ciment (The Tattoo Artist: A Novel)

"Namun pada saat itupun aku tahu bahwa setiap kali membuka sebuah buku, aku akan bisa memandang sepetak langit. Dan jika aku membaca sebuah kalimat baru, aku akan sedikit lebih banyak tahu dibandingkan sebelumnya. Dan segala yang kubaca akan membuat dunia dan diriku sendiri menjadi lebih besar dan lebih luas."
— Jostein Gaarder & Klaus Hagerup

"Somewhere a bird sang, its chant hanging plaintive and melancholy in the still air...I think it's a sort of lark or something. Our tradition has it that they sing with the voices of lost lovers. If the stars are smiling on them, you will hear its mate call back in a moment."
— Jane Johnson (The Tenth Gift: A Novel)

"They slept profoundly, desperately, greedily, as though for the last time, as though they had been condemned to stay awake forever and had to drink in all the sleep in the world during these last hours. "
— Hermann Hesse (Narcissus and Goldmund)

"A woman's got one life: She's got to reach out and grab it with both hands, or it'll pass her by and leave nothing but a smelly old fart in her face. (Mrs. Jenkins to Frances Hart, Scandalous Lovers)"
— Robin Schone

"A man when he is making up to anybody can be cordial and gallant and full of little attentions and altogether charming. But when a man is really in love he can't help looking like a sheep."
— Agatha Christie (TRAIN BLEU (LE) : FAC SIMILE)

"Sometimes looking so hard can make one blind."
— William Wharton

"If something in the deli aisle makes you cry, of course I'll put my arm around you and I'll walk you outside."
— Khaela Maricich (a.k.a. The Blow)

"Women writers make for rewarding (and efficient) lovers. They are clever liars to fathers and husbands; yet they never hold their tongues too long, nor keep ardent typing fingers still."
— Roman Payne (Rooftop Soliloquy)

"it's been a long year i will never forget for what we had for 5 months that we were togehter. i will always have feelings for you and you'll always be my frist love<3 and now i know/think it's better off if we were just friends it took me a long 5 hours to figure out if we should get back togehter and now we are just friends i hope we can go out with our friends and have fun and with out being under the pressuer of bf and gf and one more thing i still love you <333 and i will NEVER FORGET YOU
with lots of love
Bianca <333"
— Bianca Lizette Vela