"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. "
— Rumi

"The voice of Love seemed to call me, but it was a wrong number."
— P.G. Wodehouse

"At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies. "
— P.G. Wodehouse

"A single metaphor can give birth to love."
— Milan Kundera (The Unbearable Lightness of Being)

"“And it came to me then. That we were wonderful traveling companions but in the end no more than lonely lumps of metal in their own separate orbits. From far off they look like beautiful shooting stars, but in reality they're nothing more than prisons, where each of us is locked up alone, going nowhere. When the orbits of these two satellites of ours happened to cross paths, we could be together. Maybe even open our hearts to each other. But that was only for the briefest moment. In the next instant we'd be in absolute solitude. Until we burned up and became nothing.” "
— Haruki Murakami (Sputnik Sweetheart)