- “Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command”.
- Alan Watts
- “Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest”.
- Ann Radcliffe
- “To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others”.
- Anne-Sophie Swetchine