When we are in love, we are usually at a loss for words. Good thing there’s a vast world of literary quotes waiting to be used at a moment’s notice.
That’s just how love operates. You’re more inclined to feel than to actually explain what’s going on in your heart.
The best you can do when you’re not a master of words is say “I love you,” “Ngh,” *and gulp*. Poetic, yes. However, you might benefit from saying more to your loved one than incoherent mutters.
What’s the big deal with romantic quotes?
Next to body language, words are the best thing we can use to express ourselves. The simplicity of statements like “I love you” have a huge impact, especially when they’re expressed sincerely.
Romantic lines from the literary geniuses of our time—and those of the past—are personal interpretations that sound so much better.
These lines are beautiful and enlightening. They’re not just something you say to make your partner blush; these lines are a written interpretation of how you feel, spoken eloquently by people who have a knack for prose and poetry.
Still, any thought that stems from the heart is good enough. No one is asking you to become a poet and hang out under the eaves of your girlfriend or boyfriend’s window, spouting weed-induced verbalizations.
That’s what the drunk and inebriated authors of centuries past are for. They did this all for your romantic benefit.
The most romantic lines that aren’t written by you
1 “When I am old and alone, I will remember that I once held something truly beautiful.” – Joe Dunthorne, Submarine
2 “I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.” – Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
3 “We loved with a love that was more than love.” – Edgar Allan Poe, “Annabel Lee”
4 “Do I love you? My god, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches.” – William Goldman, The Princess Bride
5 “When you love something, it loves you back in whatever way it has to love.” – John Knowles, A Separate Peace
6 “You are my sympathy—my better self—my good angel—I am bound to you with a strong attachment. I think you good, gifted, lovely: a fervent, a solemn passion is conceived in my heart; it leans to you, draws you to my center and spring of life, wrap my existence about you—and, kindling in pure, powerful flame, fuses you and me in one.” – Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
7 “You should be kissed, and often, and by someone who knows how.” – Margaret Mitchell, Gone With the Wind
8 “Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” – Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
9 “I have waited for this opportunity for more than half a century, to repeat to you once again my vow of eternal fidelity and everlasting love.” – Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
10 “He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.” – Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
11 “I want you to have your own thoughts and ideas and feelings, even when I hold you in my arms.” – E. M. Forster, A Room With A View
12 “And when one of them meets with his other half, the actual half of himself, whether he be a lover of youth or a lover of another sort, the pair are lost in an amazement of love and friendship and intimacy.” – Plato, The Symposium
13 “Love had caught him out of triviality and Maurice out of bewilderment in order that two imperfect souls might touch perfection.” – E.M. Forster, Maurice
14 “He was my North, my South, my East and West, my working week and my Sunday rest.” – W.H. Auden, “Stop All the Clocks”
No matter which words you choose to say, remember that the thought and the sentiment itself is what matters. Your partner will appreciate the gesture, and you may even end up exchanging romantic quotes all night long.
More quotes coming your way for this Val period.
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