You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover’s arms can only come later when you’re sure they won’t laugh if you trip. – Jonathan Carroll, “Outside the Dog Museum”

You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with. – Wayne W. Dyer

Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species. – W. Somerset Maugham, A Writer’s Notebook, 1949

We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness — and call it love — true love. – Robert Fulghum, True Love