My debt to you, Belovd,

Is one I cannot pay

In any coin of any realm
On any reckoning day.
~Jessie B. Rittenhouse
I want a soul mate who can sit me down, shut me up, tell me ten things I don't a
lready know, and make me laugh. I don't care what you look like, just turn me on
. And if you can do that, I will follow you on bloody stumps through the snow. I
will nibble your mukluks with my own teeth. I will do your windows. I will care
about your feelings. Just have something in there. ~Henry Rollins
Ah, lady, when I gave my heart to thee,
It passed into thy lifelong regency.
~Gilbert Parker
Until then, mio dolce amor, a thousand kisses; but give me none in return, for t
hey set my blood on fire. ~Napolean Bonaparte, letter to wife Josephine, Decemb
er 1795
Oh, hasten not this loving act,
Rapture where self and not-self meet:
My life has been the awaiting you,
Your footfall was my own heart's beat.
~Paul Valry
"We will never be separated again," he said, tenderly; and Margaret clung to him
as if her whole soul demanded the fulfilment of that promise. ~August Bell, "Qu
icksands of Love," 1887
As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
~William Shakespeare
To lovers, I devise their imaginary world, with whatever they may need, as the s
tars of the sky, the red, red roses by the wall, the snow of the hawthorn, the s
weet strains of music, and aught else they may desire to figure to each other th
e lastingness and beauty of their love. ~Williston Fish, "A Last Will," 1898