“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.”

Louisa May Alcott · Little Women, 1868

“Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your heart or burn down your house, you can never tell.”

Joan Crawford

“We are most alive when we are in love.”

John Updike

“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.”

Aristotle

“I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love.”

William Blake · Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion, 1820

“To love another person is to see the face of God.”

Victor Hugo · Les Miserables, 1862

“The heart wants what it wants, or else it does not care.”

Emily Dickinson · Letter to Mrs. Joseph Haven, 1852

“Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.”

Nicole Krauss · The History of Love, 2005

“I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone.”

J.R.R. Tolkien · The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, 2001 film adaptation

“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”

Emily Bronte · Wuthering Heights, 1847

“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.”

Audrey Hepburn

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride.”

Pablo Neruda · Sonnet XVII, 100 Love Sonnets, 1960