"I will love you always. When this red hair is white, I will still love you. When the smooth softness of youth is replaced by the delicate softness of age, I will still want to touch your skin. When your face is full of the line of every smile you have ever smiled, of every surprise I have seen flash through your eyes, when every tear you have ever cried has left its mark upon your face, I will treasure you all the more, because I was there to see it all. I will share your life with you, Meredith, and I will love you until the last breath leave your body or mine."
— Laurell K. Hamilton (Meredith Gentry series)
"Some people are addicted to falling in love, Doctor. Some people love that rush of new emotions, and when that first rush of lust and fresh love is spent, they move on, to the next, thinking the love wasn’t real."
— Laurell K. Hamilton (Meredith Gentry series)
"To love someone is to lose a certain amount of control over yourself and your life, and you don’t like that. No one likes that."
— Laurell K. Hamilton (Meredith Gentry series)
"
Truly, that sight shakes my heart in my breast.
For when I look at you for even a moment,
then it is not possible to speak,
But my tongue is shattered, while a thin
fire runs suddenly beneath my skin,
I cannot see anything
and my hearing fails me,
sweat pours from me
and a trembling seizes me,
I am pale as grass,
it seems that I am almost dying.
"
— Sappho
"Only the lover walks upon the earth
careless of what the fates prepare for him"
— Don Paterson (The Lover)
"Then did I check the tears of useless passion,
Weaned my young soul from yearning after thine;
Sternly denied its burning wish to hasten
Down to that tomb already more than mine!"
— Emily Brontë (R. Alcona to J. Brenzaida)
"You must have your faults but I do not see them.
If it were with you, I should live for ever."
— Paul Durcan (The Difficulty That is Marriage)
