"This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof." – Neil Gaiman

"Change in a trice / The lilies and the languor of virtue / For the rapture and roses of vice" – Algernon Swinburne

"Fortune and love favor the brave." – Ovid

"Every time we say 'Let there be!' in any form, something happens." – Stella Terrill Mann

"In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities." – Janos Arany

"In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves." – Robert Edward Bulwer-Lytton

"Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze." – Elinor Glyn

"Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead." – Louisa May Alcott

"Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self." – Cyril Connolly

"You were made perfectly to be loved – and sure I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long." – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end." – Benjamin Disraeli

"You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you." – Ray Bradbury

"For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you long to return." – Leonardo da Vinci

"Si vis amari ama." – Latin saying

"Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart." – William Wordsworth

"A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world." – Oscar Wilde

"Love is a spirit of all compact of fire." – William Shakespeare

"Love works in miracles every day: such as weakening the strong, and stretching the weak; making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools; favouring the passions, destroying reason, and in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy." – Marguerite de Valois

"Friendship is neither a formality nor a mode: it is rather a life." – David Grayson

"Life can't ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death – fascinating, cruel, lavish, warm, cold, treacherous, constant." – Edna Ferber

"Scribere iussit amor." – Latin saying

"I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts – That hope always triumphs over experience – That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death." – Robert Fulghum

"We love because it's the only true adventure." – Nikki Giovanni

"Never trust the artist. Trust the tale." – D. H. Lawrence