"When I saw you I fell in love and you smiled because you knew." -William Shakespeare, Romeo & Juliet
"These violent delights have violent ends. And in their triump die, like fire and powder. Which, as they kiss, consume." -William Shakespeare, Romeo & Juliet
"The course of true love never did run smooth." -William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream
"You are terrifying and strange and beautiful, something that not everyone knows how to love." -Warsan Shire
"i like my body when it is with your
body. It is so quite new a thing.
Muscles better and nerves more.
i like your body. i like what it does,
i like its hows. i like to feel the spine
of your body and its bones,and the trembling-firm-smooth ness and which i will again and again and again
kiss, i like kissing this and that of you,
i like, slowly stroking the,shocking fuzz
of your electric furr,and what-is-it comes over parting flesh....And eyes big love-crumbs, and possibly i like the thrill of under me you so quite new." -E.E. Cummings, i like my body
"Sometimes I'm terrified of my heart; of its constant hunger for whatever it is it wants. The way it stops and starts." -Edgar Allen Poe
"To me, fair friend, you never can be old,
For as you were when first your eye I eyed,
Such seems your beauty still. Three winters cold
Have from the forests shook three summers' pride;
Three beauteous springs to yellow autumn turned
In process of the seasons have I seen;
Three April pérfumes in three hot Junes burned,
Since first I saw you fresh, which yet are green.
Ah yet doth beauty, like a dial hand,
Steal from his figure, and no pace perceived;
So your sweet hue, which methinks still doth stand,
Hath motion, and mine eye may be deceived.
For fear of which, hear this, thou age unbred:
Ere you were born was beauty's summer dead." -William Shakespeare, Sonnet 401
"Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs." -William Shakespeare, Romeo & Juliet
"We loved with a love that was more than love." -Edgar Allan Poe, Annabel Lee
"Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained." -C.S. Lewis