"Don't you think I was made for you? I feel like you had me ordered - and I was delivered to you - to be worn. I want you to wear me, like a watch-charm or a buttonhole bouquet." -Zelda Sayre to F. Scott Gitzgerald
"I dust[your photo] carefully every morning, for to do so gives me the pleasant feeling that I am caressing you as in the old days. I even touch your nose with mine to recapture the electric current that used to flush through my blood whenever I did so." -Nelson Mandela to his wife, Winnie
"What cannot letters inspire? They have sould; they can speak; they have in them all the force which expresses the transpoirts of the heart..." Heloise to Abelard
"I want to do things so wild with you that I don't know how to say them>" -Anais Nin to Henry Miller
"Open your life wide, and take me in forever. I will never be tired - I will never be noisy when you want to be still...nobody else will see me, but you - but that is enough - I shall not want any more." -Emily Dickinson to an unknown recipient
"Out of the depths of my happy heart wells a great tide of love and prayer for trh for this priceless treasure that is confided to my lifelong keeping. You cannot see its waves as the flow toward you, darling, but in these lines you will hear...the distant beating of its surf." -Mark Twain to Olivia Langdon
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