[M]y inexperienced heart was stormed. I… for a week or so lived on thought and tea. But who has not fasted thus long when first absorbed by the universal passion! – “Diary of a Surgeon,” in The Library of Fiction, or Family Story-Teller; consist

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place. – Zora Neale Hurston

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity. – Henry Van Dyke

Love is the poetry of the senses. РHonor̩ de Balzac