“I love her and that's the beginning of everything…”

“When she saw him face to face their eyes met and brushed like birds’ wings. After that everything was all right, everything was wonderful, she knew that he was beginning to fall in love with her.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book Tender Is the Night

“I owe her everything and I love her and I tell her these days, although every time I say it, it gets a little diluted. I think you run out of I love yous.”

Ned Vizzini book It's Kind of a Funny Story

“Love. It was the beginning and end of everything, the foundation and the ceiling and the air in between.”

Kristin Hannah book The Nightingale

“Love is the motto, love is the beginning, love is the source and love is everything that your heart shall crave for, in this world and the next.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“Children love their mothers. Especially with a boy child and his mother, there's a bond that's unbreakable. I love my mother to this day. One of the most painful things I ever had to do was bury her, realizing that even though I was her hero, I couldn't help her with this last thing. I couldn't help her get better. All I wanted was to give her everything she wanted. Everything my father didn't give her, everything she never had.”

Tyler Perry (1966) American actor, director, screenwriter, playwright, producer, author, and songwriter

“I was beginning to understand. My grandmother's love was cold because she was afraid of things; that was why everything had to be perfect.”

Alice Hoffman (1952) Novelist, young-adult writer, children's writer

“Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.”

Milan Kundera (1929–2023) Czech author of Czech and French literature

“You know Paula, who I couldn't look at the beginning of the series… I love her to death now. I hate to admit it but I do.”

Simon Cowell (1959) English reality television judge, television producer and music executive

“Your first love has no beginning or end. Your first love is not your first love, and it is not your last. It is just love. It is one with everything.”

Thich Nhat Hanh (1926) Religious leader and peace activist