Lily

“I loved you when you opened like a lily to the heat; you see I’m just another snowman standing in the rain and sleet who loved you with his frozen love, his second hand physique, with all he is and all he was a thousand kisses deep.”
― Leonard Cohen

“F. once said: At sixteen I stopped fucking faces. I had occasioned the remark by expressing disgust at his latest conquest, a young hunchback he had met while touring an orphanage. F. spoke to me that day as if I were truly one of the underprivileged; or perhaps he was not speaking to me at all when he muttered: Who am I to refuse the universe?”
― Leonard Cohen, Beautiful Losers

“Love is the only engine of survival”
― Leonard Cohen

“A kiss on the nose does much toward turning aside anger.”
― Charles M. Schulz, The Complete Peanuts, 1961-1962