This was love at first sight, love everlasting: a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected-in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness; it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life.

Just that I have loved you, even when I was nothing and no one to you, when you didn’t know my name and barely knew my face.

- Leo

That it would always be summer and autumn, and you always courting me, and always thinking as much of me as you have done through the past summertime!

Some lovers were fortunate enough to grow old together. They’d grown old apart. She did not think him any less handsome. She only wished that she’d been there when the first line on his face had appeared, so that she could have stroked and kissed and cherished it.

For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it reproduces its traits out of the unconscious.

Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.