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20 Quotes About Love From Books To Share On Valentine’s Day — Or Any Day, You Romantic
It's nearly time for Valentine’s Day, which means it's time to figure out how you and your sweetie will celebrate your love this year. (If that's your thing.) Dinner at a trendy restaurant like last year? Perhaps, the gift of chocolates yet again? Or, maybe, just maybe you’ll opt for something a bit more romantic … say, a poem or sonnet?
For some, the gift of the written word just isn’t in their blood. Try as they might to put their feelings for another human being down on paper, they just can’t do it. Luckily, we always have the professionals. While the words may not be yours, they will perfectly convey to your beloved just how utterly fantastic you think they are.
Because finding the right words can be tricky (and really, who wants to quote Shakespeare over and over again?), we’ve compiled 20 quotes from literature that you can share with the person you love this Valentine’s Day. If you want to keep the fact that technically these words aren’t yours, then your secret is safe with us.
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'Pride and Prejudice' by Jane Austen
“In vain I have struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”
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'The Velveteen Rabbit' by Margery Williams
“‘It doesn’t happen all at once,’ said the Skin Horse. ‘You become. It takes a long time. That’s why it doesn’t happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don’t matter at all, because once you are Real you can’t be ugly, except to people who don’t understand.”
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'Henry and June' by Anais Nin
“Do not seek the because — in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.”
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'Great Expectations' by Charles Dickens
“Love her, love her, love her! If she favours you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces — and as it gets older and stronger, it will tear deeper — love her, love her, love her!”
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'The Portrait of a Lady' by Henry James
“It has made me better loving you … it has made me wiser, and easier, and brighter. I used to want a great many things before, and to be angry that I did not have them. Theoretically, I was satisfied. I flattered myself that I had limited my wants. But I was subject to irritation; I used to have morbid sterile hateful fits of hunger, of desire. Now I really am satisfied, because I can’t think of anything better.”
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'Still Life with Woodpecker' by Tom Robbins
'The Great Gatsby' by F. Scott Fitzgerald
“He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God.”
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'Love in the Time of Cholera' by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
“To him she seemed so beautiful, so seductive, so different from ordinary people, that he could not understand why no one was as disturbed as he by the clicking of her heels on the paving stones, why no one else’s heart was wild with the breeze stirred by the sighs of her veils, why everyone did not go mad with the movements of her braid, the flight of her hands, the gold of her laughter. He had not missed a single one of her gestures, not one of the indications of her character, but he did not dare approach her for fear of destroying the spell.”
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'The Unbearable Lightness of Being' by Milan Kundera
'Doctor Zhivago' by Boris Parsternak
“You and I, it’s as though we have been taught to kiss in heaven and sent down to earth together, to see if we know what we were taught.”
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'The Catcher in the Rye' by J.D. Salinger
“I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That’s the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty…you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.”
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'My Antonia' by Willa Cather
“That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. When it comes to one, it comes as naturally as sleep.”
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'Wuthering Heights' by Emily Bronte
'The Little Prince' by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart.”
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'The Alchemist' by Paulo Coelho
“So, I love you because the entire universe has conspired to help me find you.”
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'War and Peace' by Leo Tolstoy
'Having a Coke with You' by Frank O'Hara
“I look at you and I would rather look at you than all the portraits in the world.”
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'Crime and Punishment' by Fyodor Dostoevsky
“They were renewed by love; the heart of each held infinite sources of life for the heart of the other.”
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'Winnie-the-Pooh' by A.A. Milne
“If you live to be hundred, I want to live to be hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.”
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