“It is women who love horror. Gloat over it. Feed on it. Are nourished by it. Shudder and cling and cry out-and come back for more.”

“Dreams nourish the soul just as food nourishes the body. The pleasure of the search and of adventure feeds our dreams.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

“Crying, waiting, hoping, that you'll come back.
I just can't seem to get you off my mind.
Crying, waiting, hoping, that you'll come back.
You're the one I love and I think about you all the time.”

Buddy Holly (1936–1959) American singer-songwriter

“Women who love themselves are threatening; but men who love real women, more so.”

Naomi Wolf book The Beauty Myth

“Women must not merely imitate men. Women have more to give than performing any job in society like neutered robots. Those who talk today of rousing the 'consciousness' of women contribute an idea of real importance. It was such a grievous mistake to leave out women. For whence can come love, compassion and understanding if not out of the relations of men and women and of them to their children?”

Dora Russell (1894–1986) author, feminist, socialist campaigner

“She is one with me. Love — it comes back to me. Love is an unhappy man and unhappy woman.
I awake — uttering the feeble cry of the babe new-born.”

Henri Barbusse (1873–1935) French novelist

“The dead lay unburied, and each man as he recognized a friend among them shuddered with grief and horror; while the living whom they were leaving behind, wounded or sick, were to the living far more shocking than the dead, and more to be pitied than those who had perished.”

Thucydides History of the Peloponnesian War

“Love is one of the great mysteries of life. There is nothing more sacred, nothing more mysterious, nothing more powerful. I come back to that – great literature is nearly always full of love, in a very broad sense. … You come out of the book with a warm feeling.”

John Minford (1946) New Zealand sinologist

“No boy is worth crying over, and the one who is won't make you cry.”

Sarah Kane (1971–1999) playwright from England

“I am sick of women who love one. Women who hate one are much more interesting.”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet