"I'd like to be in love. I think I'd be good at it." BBC's Survivors, Season 2, Episode 1

“This is love, I think. A place where people who have been alone may lock together like hawks and spin in the air, dizzy with surprise at the connection. A place you go willingly, and with wonder.” ~Jodi Picoult

Sounds good to me.

“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” – attributed to Albert Einstein

...a turtle in my basement, perched on a ledge, handsome, silent.

"How can I help you?"

"A belly rub will do."

"Yes, of course." And "Aren't you like that frog wanting the kiss?"

"Oh no, I'd rather die than ask for a kiss."

So I brought him upstairs, rubbed his belly, and tickled his fancy...because after all, turtles appreciate a tickled fancy now and again, I'm almost sure of it.

Are you strong enough to be my man? GOD.

"I carry you with me into the world, into the smell of rain & the words that dance between people & for me, it will always be this way, walking in the light, remembering being alive together." Brian Andreas, Storypeople

It's not too late for me to become a princess, what?

" 'I would love to kiss you.'
'The price of kissing is your life.'
...
'What a bargain. Let's buy it.' "

Rumi

Once upon a time, a man with sparkly eyes touched her hand, and sang a bit of her song, and set fire to her laughing places. Her skin became tingly and silky, and colors were magical and swirly, and the world shifted just so, in the nicest way.

And then it got dark and awfully quiet, and the colors stopped being quite so extraordinary, and dreams became something that happened when you sleep, not when you meet people.

The end.

All love is unconditional. If it has conditions, it isn't love.