“My peer would have to be dark-haired and handsome, a wonderful dancer… and he would never ask permission before he kissed me." -Lillian Bowman”

“He knew that hair couldn't feel; he kissed her hair.”

Leonard Cohen (1934–2016) Canadian poet and singer-songwriter

“Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.”

Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907–1972) Polish-American Conservative Judaism Rabbi

“If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.”

Zig Ziglar (1926–2012) American motivational speaker

“Dark hair fell in a sweep over his forehead. He looked like a man who would write vers libre, as indeed he did.”

P.G. Wodehouse book The Girl on the Boat

“I pulled him closer to me, wrapping my arms around him, kissing him just as desperately as he was kissing me. Like if we could just love long enough and hard enough and deep enough, then the world outside would never, could never hurt us.”

Malorie Blackman Noughts & Crosses

“My handsome Knight of Night came over to me and kissed me softly on the cheek.”

Ellen Schreiber (1967) American writer

“Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing,
Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.”

Edgar Allan Poe The Raven

“I’d seen him fight before, but it never got old. He was captivating. He never stopped moving. Every action was graceful and lethal. He was a dancer of death.”

Richelle Mead (1976) American writer

“If my son Hunter was here, first thing he would give me a kiss and say, "Dad, do you need anything?"”

Hunter Biden (1970) American lawyer, investment advisor, and second son of former Vice President Joe Biden