We got quiet. The garden was combing her hair and putting on earrings. The house was full of dancing creatures, not male and female but both, two lovers in one body. The books downstairs were reciting their poetry to each other, rubbing together, whispering through the leather covers. Wine was flowing through the water pipes. You had caught my leaping heart in your hand like a fish. - Francesca Lia Block The more familiar two people become, the more the language they speak together departs from that of the ordinary, dictionary-defined discourse. Familiarity creates a new language, an in-house language of intimacy that carries reference to the story the two lovers are weaving together and that cannot be readily understood by others. - Alain De Botton Beneath the kiss itself, it is its meaning that interests uswhich is why the desire to kiss someone can be decisively reduced (as it may need be, for instance, when two lovers are already married to other people) by a declaration of that...

The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if not to history? - Katharine Anthony I have always admired the work of Phil Farmer and was glad for the chance to work with him. Readers today may be too young to remember his classics like The Lovers. - Piers Anthony Have patience; the lovers will suffer lovers always suffer. - Clive Barker The heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love, that of the other's bed, where the rival perfects the lover's imperfections. - Djuna Barnes But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung. - Amelia Barr He wishes he had never entered the funhouse. But he has. Then he wishes he were dead. But he's not. Therefore he will construct funhouses for others and be their secret operator -- though he would rather be among the lovers for whom funhouses are designed. - John Barth Am I in love? --yes,...

Quiet Prayer: As long as the sun shall rise goes the old lovers vow. But we are children of a scientific age & have no time for poetry. Still, I offer a quiet prayer of thanks for the sunlight each time I see your face. - Brian Andreas Old lovers go the way of old photographs, bleaching out gradually as in a slow bath of acid: first the moles and pimples, then the shadings. Then the faces themselves, until nothing remains but the general outlines. - Margaret Atwood Why are old lovers able to become friends? Two reasons. They never truly loved each other, or they love each other still. - Whitney Otto

You know what? Lets go." I shot Aiden a defiant look. "Come on Seth. Let's go continue our lovers' quarrel." "Yes my love, that sounds fantastic. Don't forget to grab a dagger so you can poke my eyeballs out. - Jennifer L Armentrout And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world. - Robert Frost I had a lovers quarrel with the world. - Robert Frost I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world. - Robert Frost writing is like being in love. You never get better at it or learn more about it. The day you think you do is the day you lose it. Robert Frost called his work a lover's quarrel with the world. It's ongoing. It has neither a beginning nor an end. You don't have to worry about learning things. The fire of one's art burns all the impurities from the vessel that contains it. - James ...

For whom is the funhouse fun? Perhaps for lovers. For Ambrose it is a place of fear and confusion . - John Barth For lovers, touch is metamorphosis. All the parts of their bodies seem to change, and they seem to become something different and better. - John Cheever I went outside and discovered that nighttime is for lovers. - Jordan Dibb Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends. - Lewis Mumford Does it matter how long they were together that night? To lovers, an hour can last a century. But even for lovers, every hour ends. - Scott Snyder