Love Quotes"Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away. " -- Dorothy Parker"The heart has its reasons which reason does not know. " -- Blaise Pascal\ "�Falling in love,� we said; �I fell for him.� We were falling women. We believed in it, this downward motion: so lovely, like flying, and yet at the same time so dire, so extreme, so unlikely." -- Margaret Atwood, From the novel The Handmaid's Tale (1985). "There is nothing like desire for preventing the thing one says from bearing any resemblance to what one has in mind. " -- Marcel Proust, "Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction." --Antoine de Saint-Exup�ry "But who can count the beatings of the lonely heart?" -- Susan Edmonstone Ferrier "I had not yet fallen in love, but was in love with the idea of it, and this feeling that something was missing made me despise myself for not being more anxious to satisfy the need." -- Saint Augustine, Confessions "So I muddied the stream of friendship with the filth of leudness and clouded its clear waters with hell�s blank river of lust." -- Saint Augustine, Confessions "Life's too short for worrying. Yes, that's what worries me. " � Anonymous
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