I love you as New Englanders love pie -Don Marquis.

If love were what the rose is, and I were like the leaf, our lives would grow together -Algernon Charles Swinburne.

Her love was like the swallow’s, whose first thought is for its nest -Italo Svevo.

Going through life without love is like going through a good dinner without an appetite everything seems flat and tasteless -Helen Rowland.

The force of her love … is bulky and hard to carry, like a package that keeps untying -Louise Erdrich.

First and passionate love, it stands alone, like Adam’s recollection of his fall -Lord Byron.

Felt love like a lottery prize -Geoffrey Wolff.

Falling in love is something you forget, like pain -Nina Bawden.

Could love forever run like a river -Lord Byron.

All loving emotions, like plants, shoot up most rapidly in the tempestuous atmosphere of life -Jean Paul Richter.

Absence in love is like waters upon fire a little quickens, but much extinguishes it -Hannah More.

See Also: FRIENDSHIP LOVE, DEFINED MEN AND WOMEN

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