The mattress, curved like a preacher's palm asking for witnesses in His name's sake, enclosed them each and every night and muffled their whispering, old-time love.
—Toni Morrison
However often marriage is dissolved, it remains indissoluble. Real divorce, the divorce of heart and nerve and fiber, does not exist, since there is no divorce from memory.
—Virginia Peterson
I began to see what marriage is for. It's to keep people away from each other. Sometimes I think that two people who love each other can be saved from madness only by the things that come between them — children, duties, visits, bores, relations: the things that protect married people from each other.
—Edith Wharton
We do what only lovers can: make a gift out of necessity.
—Leonard Cohen
One of these days you’re going to fall in love. Don’t settle for just anyone. Choose the girl that doesn’t come easy; the one you have to fight for, and then never stop fighting. Never.
—Jamie McGuire in Walking Disaster
You can’t keep yourself from falling in love, but you can steer yourself away from the wrong people.
—Jodi Picoult in Songs of the Humpback Whale
Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
—Jean Anouilh
Love dies only when growth stops.
—Pearl S. Buck
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
—Joseph Joubert
Imagination is at the root of much that passes for love.
—Gilbert Parker
But I had loved him. I loved him longer and truer than I had anyone in my whole life and I would probably never love anyone that way again. Which to be honest was almost a relief.
—Jenny Han in It’s Not Summer Without You
Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love.
—Henry Miller
Not every problem someone has with his girlfriend is necessarily due to the capitalist mode of production.
—Herbert Marcuse
The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.
—Lawrence Durrell