„If love be rough with you, be rough with love. Prick love for pricking and you beat love down.“

— William Shakespeare

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„Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like thorn.“
— William Shakespeare
„Alas, that love, so gentle in his view,Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof!*It’s sad. Love looks like a nice thing, but it’s actually very rough when you experience it.“
— William Shakespeare
„So much of the language of love was like that: you devoured someone with your eyes, you drank in the sight of him, you swallowed him whole. Love was substance, broken down and beating through your bloodstream.“
— Jodi Picoult
„You are like a chestnut burr, prickly outside, but silky-soft within, and a sweet kernel, if one can only get at it. Love will make you show your heart some day, and then the rough burr will fall off.“
— Louisa May Alcott
„Always when Will did something to protect Tessa, Jem thought it was for his sake, not for Will's. Always Will wished Jem could be entirely right. Each needle prick had it own name. Guilt. Shame. Love.“
— Cassandra Clare
„It matters not who you love, where you love, why you love, when you love or how you love, it matters only that you love“
— John Lennon