E.A. Bucchianeri says love, like fortune, favours the bold…

“Love, like Fortune, favours the bold.

– E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

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Tara Kelly says first loves can…

“First loves can fuck you up.”

– Tara Kelly, Amplified

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Stephen King says kisses quickly grow stale and caresses tiresome…

“True love, like any other strong and addicting drug, is boring — once the tale of encounter and discovery is told, kisses quickly grow stale and caresses tiresome… except, of course, to those who share the kisses, who give and take the caresses while every sound and color of the world seems to deepen and brighten around them. As with any other strong drug, true first love is really only interesting to those who have become its prisoners.
And, as is true of any other strong and addicting drug, true first love is dangerous.”

― Stephen King, Wizard and Glass

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Jimmy Buffet & Nanci Griffith sing you draw me in towards you…

Written by Bruce Cockburn.  Very good cover here.

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Robert Browning says what’s the earth, with all its art, verse, music, worth…

“What’s the earth
With all its art, verse, music, worth—
Compared with love,
found, gained, and kept?”

– Robert Browning

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Mortimer Adler says love consists in giving without getting in return…

“Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other.  that’s why true love is never based, as associations for utility or pleasure are, on a fair exchange.

– Mortimer Adler

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Jodi Picoult says love is not an equation…

“Love is not an equation, it is not a contract, and it is not a happy ending. Love is the slate under the chalk, the ground that buildings rise, and the oxygen in the air. It is the place you come back to, no matter where you’re headed.”

– Jodi Picoult

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