Maria

“And dusk fell because it suited his skin.”
― Anne Enright, What Are You Like?

“Do you believe in love at first sight?"

He made himself look at her face, at her wide-open eyes and earnest forehead. At her unbearably sweet mouth.

"I don't know," he said. "Do you believe in love before that?”
― Rainbow Rowell, Attachments

“When he was young, the lesson learned from his mother, as much by cuffs as caresses, was that love is action--what you do, not what you feel--but perhaps, he thinks now, it was a false lesson, and that love is something else altogether, something he knows nothing of. He sees it, this love, hovering like the Paraclete above the heads of a fig-leafed Cranach couple, streaming divine grace down upon them in burning rays. Where was his soul when this pentecostal fire was falling from the sky?”
― John Banville, The Infinities

“It's not the easy things that let you get to know a person.”
― David Levithan, How They Met, and Other Stories