If you want to get close to somebody, you have to tell them something intimate about yourself. They'll tell you something intimate in return, and if you keep this going, maybe you'll end up in love.

Douglas Coupland

I do believe we're all connected. I do believe in positive energy. I do believe in the power of prayer. I do believe in putting good out into the world. And I believe in taking care of each other.

Harvey Fierstein

No woman really wants a man to carry her off; she only wants him to want to do it.

Elizabeth Peters

To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow-this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Never fall in love with someone that won't fight for you because when the real battles begin they won't pull your heart to safety, but they will their own.

Shannon L. Alder

All I'm saying is that I don't want to sort of fall in love with fifty different people. I'd rather find one person and fall completely, deeply in over my head.

Anna White