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“Do you think it’s possible that some people are born to give more love than they will ever get back in return?”

—Tyler Knott Gregson

“He smiled, and his face was like the sun.”

—Madeline Miller

“There are so many beautiful reasons to be happy.”

—Unknown

“There are a few great souls in my life.

They are not many.

They are few. You are one.”

—Anne Sexton

“Books are easily destroyed. But words will live as long as people can remember them.”

—Tahereh Mafi

“I might not be in love, but I’m in like. I’m in serious like.”

—Nicola Yoon

“Everyone can afford to give away a smile.”

—Carl Gustav Jung

“But their eyes when they met spoke more fondly and kissed tenderly.”

—Leo Tolstoy

“Learning never exhausts the mind.”

—Leonardo da Vinci

—Wisława Szymborska

tr. by Joanna Trzeciak, from Miracle Fair: Selected Poems of Wisława Szymborska; “Water”

“Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.”

—Alan Watts

“The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.”

—Vladimir Nabokov

“What did my fingers do before they held him? / What did my heart do, with its love?”

—Sylvia Plath

—Pablo Neruda

“Of course I’ll hurt you.

Of course you’ll hurt me.

Of course we will hurt each other.

But this is the very condition of existence.

To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter.

To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence”

—Antoine de Saint Exupéry

The Little Prince

Marguerite Duras, Hiroshima Mon Amour (tr. by Richard Seaver), 1959

“The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore.”

—Rumi

“One should always be drunk.

That’s all that matters…But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose.

But get drunk.”

—Charles Baudelaire

“The one who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The one who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no-one else has ever been.”

—Albert Einstein

“I found out I was in love with you, winter before last,” she said. “I wasn’t going to say anything about it because - well, you know. If you felt anything like that for me, you’d have known I did. But it wasn’t both of us. So there was no good in it. But then, when you told us you’re leaving… At first I thought, all the more reason to say nothing. But then I thought, that wouldn’t be fair. To me, partly. Love has a right to be spoken. And you have a right to know that somebody loves you. That somebody has loved you, could love you. We all need to know that. Maybe it’s what we need most.”

—Ursula K. Leguin

“Why should your heart not dance?”

—C.S. Lewis

—Euripides

“You, who opened suns in my heart,”

—Alfonsina Storni

"Although I may not be yours, I can never be another's."

ㅡMary Shelley

from a letter to Percy Byshhe Shelley written c. July 1814

“You are in love. Poetic fires ignite you.”

— Arthur Rimbaud

excerpt from Romance, featured in Arthur Rimbaud: The Complete Works

“I am hopelessly in love with a memory. An echo from another time, another place.”

—Michael Faudet

“You and I know each other in our bones,”

—Kurt Vonnegut

from a letter to Nanny Vonnegut wr. c. January 1973