Quotes on Amore

Words on that most universal of subjects: love.
In no particular order, here are our top 5 author quotes on Amore:

1. “If it is right, it happens—the main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.”
-John Steinbeck

2. “You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.”
-William Faulkner

3. “In love there are two things—bodies and words.” 
-Joyce Carol Oates

4. “It doesn’t matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you.” 
-Roald Dahl, The Witches

5. “The desire to get married is a basic and primal instinct in women. It’s followed by another basic and primal instinct: the desire to be single again.”
-Nora Ephron