"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."

"Love is the river of life in the world."

"There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child."

"He who hunts for flowers will finds flowers; and he who loves weeds will find weeds."

"We never know the love of the parent till we become parents ourselves."

"I think the best advice came from Drew Barrymore, about always finding love in everything you do and keeping a positive attitude and being thankful."

"I'm really fascinated by lingos and colloquialisms that are outmoded and have gone by the wayside. I love the way people spoke in the '30s, and the amazing slang of the mid-'60s and '70s."

"But children robbed of love will dwell on magic."

"I thought I wouldn't live through it. But you do. You learn to love the place somebody leaves behind for you."

"Love was like that, like a dream you didn't quite understand, one in which you didn't necessarily know what you were looking at until it was right in front of you."

"......When one loves, one is only too ready to believe one's love returned."

"Everyone knows that God protects drunkards and lovers."

"Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit."

"Everyone knows that drunkards and lovers have a protecting diety."

"But Valentine, why despair, why always paint the future in such sombre hues?" Maximilien asked. "Because, my friend, I judge it by the past."

"Love is the most selfish of all the passions."

"True love always makes a man better, no matter what woman inspires it."

"True love never has a happy ending, because there is no ending to true love."

"...because love can come, if you believe in it and behave as if it exists. That was the case, too, with free will; with perhaps, fath of any sort; and love was a sort of faith, was it not?"

"There were two classes of persons upon whom a duty of virtually absolute confidentiality rested: doctors and lovers."

"It's a different sort of love taht puts up with illness. Old love."

"That, said Isabel, is the most painful feature of lost love. you wonder what the other person is doing. Right at this moment. What is he/she doing?"

"When you are with somebody you love the smallest, smallest things can be so important, so amusing because love transforms the world, everything. And was that what had happened?"

"Sometimes she thought that the people overseas had no room in their heart for Africa, because nobody had ever told them that African people were just the same as they were"