“Making love with a woman and sleeping with a woman are two separate passions, not merely different but opposite. Love does not make itself felt in the desire for copulation (a desire that extends to an infinite number of women) but in the desire for shared sleep (a desire limited to one woman).”
– Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“Love may start out as a good feeling, but to love someone long-term is an act of the will.”
– Elizabeth George, One-Minute Inspirations for Women
“Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you can not bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond that pain.”
– Kahlil Gibran
“Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.”
– Sylvia Plath
“Unless you love someone, nothing else makes sense.”
e.e. cummings
“People can’t be just tied together. They have to connect. Otherwise, they’ll find themselves bound hand and foot.”
– Ai Yazawa
“What most people call loving consists of picking out a woman and marrying her. They pick her out, I swear, I’ve seen them. As if you could pick in love, as if it were not a lightning bolt that splits your bones and leaves you staked out in the middle of the courtyard. They probably say that they pick her out because-they-love-her, I think it’s just the opposite. Beatrice wasn’t picked out, Juliet wasn’t picked out. You don’t pick out the rain that soaks you to a skin when you come out of a concert.”
– Julio Cortazar
