“Hold me in your hands like a bunch of flowers.”

Carly Simon, The Right Thing to Do

“Not even one’s own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.”

Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“I want to do with you what Spring does with the cherry trees.”

Pablo Neruda, Every Day You Play

“Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.”

Maya Angelou