“[…] it seems like people make the mistake of thinking love is about the bedroom. It's not. It's about the emergency room. Love and marriage is who will sit there and wait.”

“I want to write about people who dream and wait for the night to end, who long for the light so they can hold the ones they love.”

Haruki Murakami (1949) Japanese author, novelist

“What we love about love is the fever, which marriage puts to bed and cures.”

Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) American journalist

“[Speaking about same-sex marriage] It’s about familiarity, and I think the only reason they’re uncomfortable with the notion of same-sex marriages is because they haven’t come into contact with gay and lesbian couples enough to understand that it’s about love—and that it is a civil right.”

Jennifer Beals (1963) American actress and a former teen model

“It isn’t about being at the same school or the same town or even the same room. It’s about being together. Love is a choice you make.”

Kristin Hannah (1960) American writer

“Two men as two women and as a man and a woman can have a loving relationship and make a commitment. And that's what marriage is about.”

John Barrowman (1967) Scottish-American actor, singer, dancer, musical theatre performer, writer and television personality

“For some mysterious Darwinian reason, women feel compelled to straighten up bedrooms before and after sex. Try to make love in every other room of the house.”

P. J. O'Rourke (1947) American journalist

“I think you realize how much you need to have people that you love. It’s not as much about them loving you – it’s about you needing to love people.”

Chadwick Boseman (1976–2020) American actor

“Marriage is tough, because it is woven of all these various elements, the weak and the strong. "In love-ness" is fragile for it is woven only with the gossamer threads of beauty. It seems to me absurd to talk about "happy" and "unhappy" marriages.”

Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906–2001) American aviator and author

“I don't think Harry cares about being forgiven," Poppy said glumly.
"Of course he does. Men love to be forgiven. It makes us feel better about our inability to learn from our mistakes.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer