Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

[Spring is] when life's alive in everything.

—Christina Rossetti

Silence is more musical than any song.

—Christina Rossetti

In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak midwinter, Long ago.

—Christina Rossetti

My heart is like a singing bird.

—Christina Rossetti

You might not have been my first love, but you were the love that made all the other loves irrelevant.

—Rupi Kaur in Milk and Honey

He'd learned that when you love someone purely enough, all you wanted was for that person to be happy.

—Elin Hilderbrand in Summerland

The right kind of love is supposed to bring out the best in people. It adds to your life, fills in all those gaps you didn't even realize were there.

—Cambria Hebert in #Rev

Men aren't stupid, and you don't need a complicated set of rules to find a good one who loves you. Here's the only rule you need: if a man loves you, he will do anything he can to keep you around. Anything.

—Kim Gruenenfelder in A Total Waste of Makeup

He was my escape, and sometimes that can feel an awful lot like love.

—Emily Giffin in Something Borrowed