“Put down your hollow tips,
And kiss your lover's lips,
And know that fate is what we make of it.”

“When lovers kiss on the cheeks, it is because they are searching, feeling for one another's lips. Lovers are made by a kiss.”

Emile Zola book The Fortune of the Rougons

“To be kissed on the lips by your husband is the most decadent thing.”

Gillian Flynn book Gone Girl

“I almost went to bed
without remembering
the four white violets
I put in the button-hole
of your green sweater

and how i kissed you then
and you kissed me
shy as though I’d
never been your lover”

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

“Drink to me with your eyes alone…. And if you will, take the cup to your lips and fill it with kisses, and give it so to me.”

Philostratus (170) Lucius Flavius Philostratus, Greek sophist of Roman imperial period

“And you kissed me
shy as though I'd
never been your lover”

Leonard Cohen book The Spice-Box of Earth

“The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space.”

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer

“Your lips are like sugar
And your cheeks an apple
Your breasts are paradise
And your body a lily.

O, to kiss the sugar
To bite the apple
To reveal paradise
And open the lily.”

Louis De Bernières book Birds Without Wings

“Familiarity with your lover is what initially makes sex really good.”

Susie Bright (1958) American writer and feminist

“my kingdom for a kiss upon your shoulder"
lover you should have come over-”

Jeff Buckley (1966–1997) American singer, guitarist and songwriter