“Staunch and faithful lovers that they are, they give back a hundred fold every sign of love that one ever gives them.”

“God made all the creatures and them our love and out fear,To give sign, we and they are his children, one family here. ”

“What you give comes back to you ten-fold.”

“Second-hand gloves will become lovely again, their memories are what give them the need for other hands. And the desolation of lovers is the same: that enormous emptiness carved out of such tiny beings as we are asks to be filled; the need for the new love is faithfulness to the old.”

“No one at fifteen was ever in love, outside of Romeo and Juliet, and maybe not even them. Old Giff used to argue that the star-crossed lovers simply were buzzed on the fumes of forbidden lust. Give them thirty years of togetherness, Old Giff always said, and Juliet would be plunging the dagger into Romeo.”

“Don't make love to your problems-- they'll never give you back the satisfaction you give them.”