"In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person."
-Margaret Anderson

"If I know what love is, it is because of you."
-Herman Hesse

"Absence sharpens love, but presence strengthens it."
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"Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep burning, unquenchable."
-Henry Ward Beecher 

"A true man does not need to romance a different girl every night, a true man romances the same girl for the rest of her life."
-Ana Alas

"Love is unconditional... Relationships are not."
-Grant Gudmundson

"I only wish to be the fountain of love from which you drink, every drop promising eternal passion." 
-Anonymous

"Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough." 
-Dinah Shore

"When in love, sometimes it's worse to win a fight than to lose."
-Billie Holiday

"What is that women in men do desire?
The linements of gratified desire.
What is it in men that women do desire?
The linements of gratified desire."
-William Blake

“As perfume doth remain In the folds where it hath lain, So the thought of you, remaining Deeply folded in my brain, Will not leave me: all things leave me: You remain.”
-Arthur Symons

“Outside are the storms and strangers: We - Oh, close, safe and warm sleep I and she, I and she ...”
-Robert Browning

"Some say love makes you weak from vulnerability,  I say love makes you strong, from surviving the fires of passion."
-Robin Dean

"Love can soothe what love can burn." 
-Amy Grant