How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it.
- Barbara Pym

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?
- Albert Einstein

I am sick of women who love me. Women who hate me are much more interesting.
- Oscar Wilde

I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes
- James Joyce

I believe that love cannot be bought except with love.
- John Steinbeck

I don't wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be something to someone.
- Javan (Steven Javan Jones)

I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
- Mother Teresa

I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved.
- George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans)

I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning