650 – “I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it’s these things I’d believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn’t all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything.”

–F Scott Fitzgerald referring to his soon to be wife, Zelda Sayre

614 – “My body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.”

–James Joyce

285 – “I desire the things which will destroy me in the end.”

–Sylvia Plath