♥ Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place. ~Zora Neale Hurston, folklorist and writer

♥ Do I love you because you’re beautiful,
Or are you beautiful because I love you?
~Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein, Cinderella

♥ Infatuation is when you think he’s as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is when you realize that he’s as sexy as Woody Allen, as smart as Jimmy Connors, as funny as Ralph Nader, as athletic as Henry Kissinger and nothing like Robert Redford – but you’ll take him anyway. ~Judith Viorst, journalist, Redbook, 1975

♥ Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke. ~Lynda Barry, cartoonist

♥ You know you’re in love when you don’t want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams. ~Dr. Seuss

♥ Love, love, love – all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures. ~Germaine Greer, feminist writer

♥ Falling in love is so hard on the knees. ~Aerosmith

♥ Forget love – I’d rather fall in chocolate! ~Sandra J. Dykes, writer