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- A kiss is but a little sweetness,
- Leaping the road to rapture.
PHILIP MOELLER, The Roadhouse in Arden
Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.
GERMAINE GREER, The Female Eunuch
- When it's right you can't say
- Who is kissing whom.
GREGORY ORR, Concerning the Book that is the Body of the Beloved
Hollywood's a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for kiss, and fifty cents for your soul.
Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life... You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore.
NEIL GAIMAN, The Sandman #65
Weddings are not over until they are sealed with a kiss.
SUSAN MARG, Las Vegas Weddings
Only he who loves and is loved for his own sake can be happy, and what produces that happiness is not so much the sense of sexual communion as of two people being together ... the sexual act viewed as a whole probably affords less happiness than a totally ordinary kiss or often indeed one simple word from the one you love.
ELFRIEDE JELINEK, Wonderful, Wonderful Times
- Ah why refuse the blameless bliss?
- Can danger lurk within a kiss?
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE, "To Sara"
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