“We met each other when we were young, before we knew enough about disappointment, and once we did we found we reminded each other of it.”

“Before we belonged to anyone else, we were each other's.”

Elizabeth Noble (1968) British novelist

“Once we dreamt that we were strangers. We wake up to find that we were dear to each other.”

Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) Bengali polymath

“Before either of us knew it, we belonged to each other.”

Friedrich Hölderlin book Hyperion

“I dreamed of you. I dreamed you were wandering in the dark, and so was I. We found each other. We found each other in the dark.”

Stephen King (1947) American author

“We were each other's rock. But did it make us each other's destiny?”

Rachel Hawthorne (1950) American author

“We did not touch each other. We were both leaning over the abyss.”

Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica

“We did that often, asking each other questions whose answers we already knew. Perhaps it was so that we would not ask the other questions, the ones whose answers we did not want to know.”

Chi­ma­man­da Ngo­zi Adi­chie book Purple Hibiscus

“When we die, we will turn into songs, and we will hear each other and remember each other.”

Rob Sheffield (1966) American music journalist

“We thought we were the only thinking beings in the universe, until we met you, but never did we dream that thought could arise from the lonely animals who cannot dream each other's dreams.”

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Game