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"Love is a driver, bitter and fierce if you fight and resist him, Easy-going enough once you acknowledge his power."
"I used to be a hopeless romantic - I fell in love with everyone I went out with."
"People call it Valentines Day, I call it Tuesday."
"Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me."
"Valentine's Day is a sham created by card companies to reinforce gender stereotypes. [..] I'll buy some cookies, but NOT for Valentine's Day. These cookies celebrate the February 14th birthday of Anna Howard Shaw, famed American suffragette."
"If you would and you could brighten my northern sky."
"I never loved you any more than I do, right this second. And I'll never love you any less than I do, right this second."
"Valentine's Day is devoted to love. Why don't we have a day devoted to hatred? The raw, visceral hatred that is felt every hour of the day by ordinary people, but is repressed for reasons of social order. I think it would be very cathartic, and it would certainly make for an exciting six o'clock news."
"All of us, consciously or unconsciously, set out to have the best possible love life. Valentine's Day simply shines a light on the degree to which that didn't - or hasn't yet - materialized."
"I have second thoughts. Maybe God is malicious. Told to Valentine Bargmann."
"Whatever you love most, be it sports, pleasure, business or God, that is your god!"
"Unlikely things to see in a Valentine's card - "I may be dyslexic but that doesn't mean I don't vole you.""
"He: "Whale you be my valentine?" She: "Dolphinitely."
"Once upon a time there was a Martian named Valentine Michael Smith."
"If my Valentine you won't be, I'll hang myself on your Christmas tree."
"Darling, replied Valentine, has not the count just told us that all human wisdom was contained in these two words,- "Wait and hope"?"
"There are people who are willing to suffer and swallow their tears at leisure, and God will no doubt reward them in heaven for their resignation; but those who have the will to struggle strike back at fate in retaliation for the blows they receive."
"The only bubble in the flat champagne of February is Valentine’s Day. It was no accident that our ancestors pinned Valentine’s Day on February’s shirt: he or she lucky enough to have a lover in frigid, antsy February has cause for celebration, indeed."
"I love you. I honestly love you."
"I watch my heart disappearing into her rosebud mouth. My Valentine's jest somehow seems less funny."