• Kiss by kiss I cover your tiny infinity

-Pablo Neruda, Carnal Apple, Woman Filled, Burning Moon

• One night they fell asleep, side by side. He slept curled upon her back; a dark comma against her pale, elegant phrase.

-A.S. Byatt, Possession

• Poor little librarians of the world, those girls, secretly lovely, their looks marred forever by the cruelty of a pair of big dark eyeglasses!

-Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

• Men always want to be a woman’s first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a man’s last romance.

- Oscar Wilde

• If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late? Nobody."

- Holden Caulfield, Catcher in the Rye

• "How much do you love me?" Midori asked."Enough to melt all the tigers in the world to butter," I said. "Far out," she said with a hint of satisfaction. "Will you hold me again?"

- Toru Watanabe, Norwegian Wood