Dammit if Nick Hornby doesn't know how to write about male screw ups and the women who love them (most notably in "High Fidelity").

"I am cowed -- by her intelligence, and her ferocity and the way she's always right. Or, at least, she's always right enough to shut me up." --Nick Hornby

Nora Ephron's autobiographical novel "Heartburn" was just one of her many brilliant stories on love and relationships.

"I married him against all evidence. I married him believing that marriage doesn't work, that love dies, that passion fades, and in so doing I became the kind of romantic only a cynic is truly capable of being." --Nora Ephron

Writer and philosopher Iris Murdoch was married to John Bayley for 43 years, so she gets it.

"Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real." --Iris Murdoch

If you've read "Wuthering Heights," you know that Heathcliff gets all the best (i.e., most romantic) lines.

"If you ever looked at me once with what I know is in you, I would be your slave." --Emily Brontë

The late Carrie Fisher spilled about her intense marriage to musician Paul Simon in "Wishful Drinking" with this sentiment, one of many good relationship quotes in her autobiographical book.

"Paul and I had the secret handshake of shared sensibility." --Carrie Fisher