- ''I can’t think of anything but nights with you. I want them warm and silvery, when we can be together all our lives.'' Zelda to Scott in 1919
- ''You are flowers in my stomach.
Cutting me open nightly, blooming through the cracks of the ribs.
I only want to be the sun for you.'' Elke Rive
- ''I want to fill my mouth with your name.'' Pablo Neruda
- ''I want you to come live with me, and die with me, and everything with me.'' Vladimir Nabokov
- ''I want you to miss me. I want you to recognise me in your morning cereal and the voice of your favourite singer. I want you to wonder where I am when your fingers are stretched beneath your waistband, when you’re lighting up, when you’re tripping up that uneven step on your basement stairs. I want you to think of me when you look into your teacup and your rear-view mirror. I want you.'' Camryn Pulaski
- ''My body is a dead language and you pronounce each word perfectly.'' Sierra DeMulder
- "Every mouth you’ve ever kissed was just practice. All the bodies you’ve ever undressed and ploughed in to were preparing you for me. I don’t mind tasting them in the memory of your mouth. Was it a long journey? Did it take you long to find me? You’re here now, welcome home." Warsan Shire
- ''I want to moan and writhe with you and I want to go up to you and kiss your mouth and pull you to me and say ‘I love you I love you I love you’ while stripping. I want you so bad it stings.'' Bret Easton Ellis
- ''You’re just like Braille, he said to her. In what way? she inquired. I never want to stop running my palms over you, reading every single dip and curve. You’re the only language I was ever fluent in, he replied.'' Fragment 68
- ''I read once that the ancient Egyptians had fifty words for sand and the Eskimos had a hundred words for snow. I wish I had a thousand words for love, but all that comes to mind is the way you move against me while you sleep and there are no words for that.'' Brian Andreas
- ''We were together. I forget the rest.'' Walt Whitman
- ''I love you more than my own skin and even though you don’t love me the same way, you love me anyways, don’t you? And if you don’t, I’ll always have the hope that you do, and I’m satisfied with that. Love me a little. I adore you.'' Frida Kahlo
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