Quotes About Love and Other Things Adjacent to It

"This isn't a love poem I swear" - The man at the poetry reading

"When you're in love the whole world is Jewish" - My Alte bobeh (great-grandmother)

"I don't think hate is the opposite of love" - Me

"'What is love without expectation, what is that?' 'What is expectation without love? That’s what you’ve given me.'” - Adaine Abernant Dimension 20 (Siobhan Thompson)

 "There is no use in loving things if you have to be torn from them, is there? And it's so hard to keep from loving things, isn't it? Do you think amethysts can be the souls of good violets?" - Anne of Green Gables

“I wish I was nervous because I love being nervous, it’s like being in love isn’t it?" - AURORA in an interview

"Is it odd that/I wish that I could fall in love/But did nothing all the times that I was" - A blog post I read

"She is the eldest of the pantheon/Born from vengeful blood and writhing sea/Of course struggle is where love would be born/Of course love would be the most ancient force/Her power was stronger than any god/Yet she was always underestimated" - A poem by me.

"Love, love is a verb/Love is a doing word/Feathers on my breath" - Teardrop (by Massive Attack)

"You are the reason I can dance/Within a fire of goodbyes, of goodbyes/I can lie in a dark room without the feeling that I'm lonely/Oh it's the beauty in forgotten love" - Forgotten Love (by AURORA)

"I tell myself I have to build defenses/'Cause once you are in love, you are defenseless/Everything was easy when it meant less/But once you are in love, you are defenseless" - To be Loved (by AURORA)

"I wish I was in love so I could write sappy poems and understand the cliches/the way it feels to be so aligned with another person that you feel together even when you are apart/So I can express the bursting feeling that roars like empty eardrums/Like the excitement of longing but fuller/Over the sides of the wagon/A song never heard in this key/Maybe someday/Maybe now/Maybe never (but that’s ok too)" - Another poem by me.