No riches from his scanty store My lover could impart; He gave a boon I valued more - He gave me all his heart!
Cold silence has a tendency to atrophy any sense of compassion between supposed lovers
It may be a point of great pride to have a Van Gogh on the living room wall, but the prospects of having Van Gogh himself in the living room would put a great many devoted art lovers to rout.
Red roses for young lovers. French beans for longstanding relationships
These are the folk who may pass into the kingdom of heaven: the grief-stricken, lovers, scholars of a certain obsessive disposition. Brute beasts. Women who have become as men and men who have become as women. Writers of books with long titles. Only those knights who have failed to touch the Grail. Industrious women. You, and I, and a boy named Oleg, and a girl with blue hair.
While friends and lovers mourn your silly grave, I have other uses for you, darling. I love the dead.
What anger worse or slower to abate then lovers love when it turns to hate.
If you want a lover I'll do anything you ask me to. And if you want another kind of love I'll wear a mask for you.
To have twenty lovers in one year is easy. To have one lover for twenty years is difficult.
You can learn a lot from your lovers, but-for the most part-you get to keep your friends longer, and you learn more from them.
Animal lover that I am, a cougar I am not.
That the question of likability even exists in literary conversations is odd. It implies that we are engaging in a courtship. When characters are unlikable, they don’t meet our mutable, varying standards. Certainly we can find kinship in fiction, but literary merit shouldn’t be dictated by whether we want to be friends or lovers with those about whom we read.
All love affairs are tragedies in the end unless the lovers die at the same moment.
We are the love, the lover, the loving, and the love. It is the Supreme. It is the deepest force in our lives.
Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are a bourbon biscuit.
Music is like a lover that I can't commit to, but I seem to always find myself in bed with.
We meet fellow humans throughout our travels,Become close - friends, dates, lovers. Always we are distanced againfrom death, geography, or meeting others,Only dialtone on the phone,cold and empty beneath the covers.
Books are the depositary of everything that is most honourable to man.
A woman should not take a lover without the consent of her heart, nor a husband without the consent of her reason.
I 've been married so much in my life that I never really had lovers, so it's been a fun time. Hopefully the men are enjoying it as well.