"Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other."

"We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love."

"True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen."

"There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not."

"Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times."

"Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires."

"To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead."

"Tell me who admires you and loves you, and I will tell you who you are."

"Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction."

"I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty... you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are."