"Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more of their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination of people not to live without it." -- Morton Hunt

"A youth with his first cigar makes himself sick; a youth with his first girl makes everyone sick." -- Mary Wilson Little

"A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment." -- Jane Austen

"We loved with a love that was more than love." -- Edgar Allan Poe

"I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can't love and do nothing." -- Graham Green

The End of the Affair

"The first symptom of love in a young man is shyness; the first symptom in a woman, it's boldness." 
-- Victor Hugo

"I do a great deal of research - particularly in the apartments of tall blondes." -- Raymond Chandler

"Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired." -- Robert Frost

"Boys and girls in America have such a sad time together; sophistication demands that they submit to sex immediately without proper preliminary talk. Not courting talk- real straight talk about souls, for life is holy and every moment is precious.” -- Jack Kerouac
On the Road

"To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love." --
Jane Austen

"A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it." -- John Steinbeck

"Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him." --   H.L. Mencken, A Book of Burlesques, 1916

"And it struck me then, that I liked Sean because he looked, well, slutty. A boy who had been around. A boy who couldn't remember if he was Catholic or not." --

Bret Easton Ellis

The Rules of Attraction

“I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it's these things I'd believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn't all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything.” -- F. Scott Fitzgerald

"If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late? Nobody." -- J.D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye

"Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh." --W.H. Auden

"Dancing is wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it." -- Christopher Morley, Kitty Foyle