Top Five: Vintage Valentines and Quotes

Random Magic Valentine’s Day Tour: Vive L’Amour

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Among the pairs of lovers we meet in Random Magic, Callie and Nevermore are perhaps the most memorable, from a book blogging point of view, for being by far the most bookish.

Callie – a nickname, in the book, for her full name of Calliope – is the first and most literary of the Nine Muses, and one of her favorite things is her infinite library.

Yes, “infinite” is quite literal, in this case; as an immortal, she’s known every author ever born and every author who ever will be.

So, for this tour stop on Random Magic: Vive L’Amour, we’d like to share some romantic picks related to books and paper and art – all kinds of wonderful and bookish things, the sort you’d be most likely to find within Callie’s vast and beautiful sanctuary.

Here are five great picks for the sweetest vintage Valentine’s Day cards, and five quotes about love.

Quote from Random Magic:

“Isn’t it romantic?” Effie sighed, and turned another slow, dreamy backflip through the air. “The impetuous flight of passion, the tormenting blade of unreason, the giddy transports of love enthroned, the–”

“More like a goat dancing with an angry bee,” the centaur observed acidly.

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Vintage Valentines and quotes about love…
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	“I don’t want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.”  - Zelda Fitzgerald	I like the vintage cards with the little girls, because they are cute. This one has just an extra plus with the cute puppy!
I like this card, because its elegant and pretty with the flowers. They look almost like they are going to a dance.	“A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears.”  - Woodrow Wyatt
	“We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.”  - Tom Robbins	I love this vintage card!! The little girl is so cute and I like that she looks like she’s sending her valentine a card or a letter.
I LOVE this card because of the cute little dear. The word play with the word ‘deer’ is adorable as well.	“To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind”  - Theophile Gautier
	“A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves.”  - Ralph W. Sockman	I really like this card. The wordplay is so cute and I love the idea of the old car and a gas clerk.

BONUS: Sweet treat – Classic love poem

“All for Love” by George Gordon, Lord Byron*

O Fame! if I e’er took delight in thy praises,
‘Twas less for the sake of thy high-sounding phrases,
Than to see the bright eyes of the dear one discover
She thought that I was not unworthy to love her…
Her glance was the best of the rays that surround thee;
When it sparkled o’er aught that was bright in my story,
I knew it was love, and I felt it was glory.

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* By the way, Lord Byron appears as a character in Random Magic.

Do you have a favorite quote about love for Valentine’s Day?

Feel free to share yours below. You can also find other cool reads about love and romance – and books, and art, and all sorts of other wonderful things – at Random Magic Tour: Vive L’Amour (Through February 14)! Browse tour schedule here.

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