Edgar Allan Poe

"I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom."

Edgar Allan Poe

Anaïs Nin

"Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions."

Anaïs Nin

Mary Stewart

"It is not true that women cannot keep secrets. Where they love, they can be trusted to death and beyond, against all sense and reason. It is their weakness, and their great strength. "

- Mary Stewart

Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

"Love knows no virtue, no merit; it loves and forgives and tolerates everything because it must. We are not guided by reason..."

Leopold von Sacher-Masoch