Love Dodecahedron/Quotes

Hang on, hang on. I'm gonna get some thumbtacks and colored strings so we can diagram this.

"I'd say it's a Love Triangle, but it's more like a love octagon!"

—Chester A. Bum on Half-Blood Prince

Sweet Marie, she loves just me
(She also loves Maurice McGhee).
No she don't, she loves just me
(She also loves Louise Dupree).
No she don't, she loves just me
(She also loves the willow tree).
No she don't, she loves just me!
(Poor, poor fool, why can't you see

She can love others and still love thee.)

—Shel Silverstein, Just Me, Just Me.

Withered Hope says she has a soul mate,
Living in a city in another state.
But the soul mate thinks about a picture in a book of a beautiful crook.
And the picture of the crook in the book is in love with the brand new motorbike.
But the motorbike doesn't like crooks,

it's obsessed with the Very Sad Sack
—They Might Be Giants, "Withered Hope"

You love her
But she loves him
And he loves somebody else

You just can't win.
—The J. Geils Band, "Love Stinks"

Every woman's husband, and every man's wife. -- Popular Roman epithet for Julius Caesar

Darling, you're divine. I've had an affair with your husband. You'll be next.

—Tallulah Bankhead, to Joan Crawford, married at the time to Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

The heroine is usually an heiress, probably a peeress in her own right, with perhaps a vicious baronet, an amiable duke, and an irresistible younger son of a marquis as lovers in the foreground, a clergyman and a poet sighing for her in the middle distance, and a crowd of undefined adorers dimly indicated beyond.

—George Eliot, Silly Novels by Lady Novelists