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Not all romance novels are created equal. Some are written so beautifully and take you along on the romantic journey, whereas some others simply make you fall asleep.
In this article, we went through over a 100 of the most popular romantic novels and collected what we think are some really beautiful love quotes. These quotes are so deep, they are sure to touch your heart.
The following is our collection of 118 beautiful quotes on love taken from popular romance novels.
“We’re all a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love — true love.”
― Robert Fulghum, True Love Stories
“Very few times in your life, you might meet someone who was exactly right for you. Not because he was perfect, or because you were, but because your combined flaws were arranged in a way that allowed two separate beings to hinge together.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Blue-Eyed Devil
“True love is rare, and it’s the only thing that gives life real meaning.”
― Nicholas Sparks, Message in a Bottle
“Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.”
― Orhan Pamuk, Snow
“I fell in love with her when we were together, then fell deeper in love with her in the years we were apart.”
― Nicholas Sparks, Dear John
“I know you love me, because there’s no way I can be this much in love with you, and not have you feel the same way. It’s not possible.”
― Samantha Young, On Dublin Street
“I love him very much – more than I can trust myself to say – more than words have power to express.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
“Love is like the wind, you can’t see it but you can feel it.”
― Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember
“When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.”
― Jess C. Scott, The Intern
“A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
“For the first time in my life, I’ve felt whole, alive, free. You were the missing piece of my soul, the breath in my lungs, and the blood in my veins.”
― J.A. Redmerski, The Edge of Never
“Love is needing someone. Love is putting up with someone’s bad qualities because they somehow complete you.”
― Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby
“You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
“Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.”
― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
“I love you. You’re in the very core of my heart. I hold you there like a jewel.”
― L.M. Montgomery, The Blue Castle
“The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
“For the two of us, home isn’t a place. It is a person. And we are finally home.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss
“For where all love is, the speaking is unnecessary.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Outlander
“Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven
“Love doesn’t exactly come with an off switch.”
― S.C. Stephens, Thoughtless
“It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
“Look after my heart – I’ve left it with you.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Eclipse
“I wasn’t actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
“I could not tell you if I loved you the first moment I saw you, or if it was the second or third or fourth. But I remember the first moment I looked at you walking toward me and realized that somehow the rest of the world seemed to vanish when I was with you.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince
“One day you will kiss a man you can’t breathe without, and find that breath is of little consequence.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Bloodfever
“Then I realize what it is. It’s him. Something about him makes me feel like I am about to fall. Or turn to liquid. Or burst into flames.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent
“I think that if past lives are real then we have been lovers in every single one of them. I’ve known you for a short time, but I feel like I’ve known you forever.”
― J.A. Redmerski, The Edge of Never
“The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
“You have to kiss a lot of frogs before you find your prince”
― E.L. James, Fifty Shades of Grey
“I knew the second I met you that there was something about you I needed. Turns out it wasn’t something about you at all. It was just you.”
― Jamie McGuire, Beautiful Disaster
“I belong to my beloved, and my beloved is mine.”
― Jamie McGuire, Beautiful Disaster
“I’ve been yours since the second we met.”
― Jamie McGuire, Beautiful Disaster
“Fighting, laughing, loving or crying, if it was with him, I was where I wanted to be.”
― Jamie McGuire, Beautiful Disaster
“I want to tell her how much she’s become the center of my being. But I can’t. The words won’t come.”
― Simone Elkeles, Perfect Chemistry
“I never stopped loving you. Even when I tried desperately to forget you, I couldn’t.”
― Simone Elkeles, Perfect Chemistry
“I love you and you understand what that phrase means to me. I don’t say it…to anyone…ever.”
― S.C. Stephens, Thoughtless
“You can’t turn love on and off like a light switch, no matter how hard you try. All you can do is wall it off, one brick at a time, until you’ve created an impenetrable fortress around your emotions.”
― Katherine Allred, The Sweet Gum Tree
“Being angry with you, almost made me want you even more.”
― S.C. Stephens, Thoughtless
“You are so addicting to me.”
― S.C. Stephens, Thoughtless
“I’ve thought about you every day … I’ve dreamt about you every night.”
― S.C. Stephens, Thoughtless
“I want you so much. I want you forever. Forgive me… I love you so much.”
― S.C. Stephens, Thoughtless
“The love we felt for each other while definitely never planned or expected as I suppose most love isn’t had irrevocably seared us both deeply.”
― S.C. Stephens, Thoughtless
“Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
“His presence in a room was more cheering than the brightest fire.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
“I must’ve wished for you so hard and so often you had no choice but to come true.”
― Sylvia Day, Bared to You
“His smile was like lightning in the darkness, blinding and beautiful and mysterious, and I wanted him so badly it was physically painful.”
― Sylvia Day, Bared to You
“I’m still not sure I didn’t hallucinate the conversation while overdosing on his pheromones.”
― Sylvia Day, Bared to You
“Each moment that I wait feels like a year, an eternity. Each moment is as slow and transparent as glass. Through each moment I can see infinite moments line up, waiting. Why has he gone where I cannot follow?”
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler’s Wife
“You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope…I have loved none but you.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion
“I feel like I’m missing something really important when you’re gone. So important I don’t feel like myself. I’ve never felt like someone was mine before. But you’re mine. I’ve known that from the moment we met. And I’m yours. I don’t want to be anyone else’s.”
― Samantha Young, On Dublin Street
“When two people are meant to be together, they will be together. It’s fate.”
― Sara gruen, Water for Elephants
“I want her to melt into me, like butter on toast. I want to absorb her and walk around for the rest of my days with her encased in my skin.”
― Sara Gruen, Water for Elephants
“If you can’t stop thinking about someone’s update, that’s called “status cling.”
― Jessica Park, Flat-Out Love
“I don’t think you ever really fall out of love with someone. I think when you fall in love, like true love, it’s love for life. All the rest is just experience and delusions.”
― J.A. Redmerski, The Edge of Never
“If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.”
― Jane Austen, Emma
“Growing apart doesn’t change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I’m glad for that.”
― Ally Condie, Matched
“Our time together feels like a storm, like a wild wind and rain, like something too big to handle but too powerful to escape.”
― Ally Condie, Matched
“I saw something in you that I couldn’t live without. I chose you, inside of me, and you chose me. It’s not one sided, it only works when both people choose the other. You are perfect for me in every way.”
― Shelly Crane, Significance
“I loved the feeling of talking and having somebody really listen to what I have to say. It was like a high or something.”
― Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty
“Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good night till it be morrow.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
“Love is heavy and light, bright and dark, hot and cold, sick and healthy, asleep and awake- its everything except what it is!”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo & Juliet
“Under loves heavy burden do I sink.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo & Juliet
“I love you more than anyone or anything I’ve ever known. You’ve somehow become the song inside of me.”
― Abbi Glines, Breathe
“I love you. There hasn’t been a single day in the last 15 years that I haven’t regretted not telling you when I had a chance.”
― Katherine Allred, The Sweet Gum Tree
“The opposite of love isn’t hate, it’s indifference. And you couldn’t be indifferent to him if your life depended on it.”
― Katherine Allred, The Sweet Gum Tree
“When someone loves you, it’s like having a blanket all round your heart…”
― Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones’s Diary
“I want you to love me. I want you to trust me enough to let me love you, and I want you to stay here with me so we can build a life together. That’s what I want”
― Francine Rivers, Redeeming Love
“My love isn’t a weapon, it’s a lifeline, reach out and take hold, and don’t let go!”
― Francine Rivers, Redeeming Love
“Love is the way back into Eden. It is the way back to life.”
― Francine Rivers, Redeeming Love
“I’m afraid to love you. I’m afraid that you’ll leave and that I’ll go back to being alone again. Only it will be a hundred times worse because I’ll know what I’m missing. I can’t…”
― Mia Sheridan, Archer’s Voice
“I lost my heart to you. And in case you’re wondering, I don’t ever want it back.”
― Mia Sheridan, Archer’s Voice
“I knew I loved her – fiercely and with every part of my heart, even the broken parts, even the parts that felt unworthy and without value. And maybe those parts most of all.”
― Mia Sheridan, Archer’s Voice
“Loving another person always means opening yourself up for hurt.”
― Mia Sheridan, Archer’s Voice
“I want to be able to love you more than I fear losing you.”
― Mia Sheridan, Archer’s Voice
“And sometimes, that’s all it takes – one person who’s willing to listen to your heart, to the sound no one else has ever tried to hear.”
― Mia Sheridan, Archer’s Voice
“I wish you could see yourself through my eyes. I wish you could read my mind so that you would know how much I want you, no one else.”
― Mia Sheridan, Archer’s Voice
“The human heart has a way of making itself large again even after it’s been broken into a million pieces.”
― Robert James Waller, The Bridges of Madison County
“The heart never forgets, never gives up, the territory marked off for those who came before.”
― Robert James Waller, The Bridges of Madison County
“We have both lost ourselves and created something else, something that exists only as an interlacing of the two of us. We’re in love. As deeply, as profoundly, as it’s possible to be in love.”
― Robert James Waller, The Bridges of Madison County
“Some people you meet and they’re your friend for a day. Some you meet and you never really know at all. And then there are those who get caught inside your soul and stay there forever.”
― Melodie Ramone, After Forever Ends
“I love you. I have always loved you. I loved you before forever began and I’ll love you still after forever ends.”
― Melodie Ramone, After Forever Ends
“I didn’t fall in love with you… I flew.”
― Colleen Hoover, Ugly Love
“Love isn’t always pretty. Sometimes you spend all your time hoping it’ll eventually be something different. Something better. Then, before you know it, you’re back to square one, and you lost your heart somewhere along the way.”
― Colleen Hoover, Ugly Love
“Every lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel.”
― Neil Gaiman, Stardust
“I think I love you. My heart… It feels like my chest can barely contain it. Like it’s trying to escape because it doesn’t belong to me any more. It belongs to you. And if you wanted it, I’d wish for nothing in exchange – no gifts. No goods. No demonstrations of devotion. Nothing but knowing you loved me too. Just your heart, in exchange for mine.”
― Neil Gaiman, Stardust
“Love doesn’t mean anything if you’re not willing to make a commitment, and you have to think not only about what you want, but about what he wants. Not just now, but in the future.”
― Nicholas Sparks, Safe Haven
“I truly believe that while love can hurt, love can also heal…”
― Nicholas Sparks, Safe Haven
“I don’t know if I’m okay. It shouldn’t be possible to be this close to another person. To let them crawl inside you.”
― Katja Millay, The Sea of Tranquility
“There’s a reverence in the way he kisses me that frightens me, because it’s the most wonderful thing I’ve ever felt.”
― Katja Millay, The Sea of Tranquility
“Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn’t make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song
“Love is fragile. And we’re not always its best caretakers. We just muddle through and do the best we can. And hope this fragile thing survives against all odds.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song
“There are people you meet that you get to know, and then there are people you meet that you already know.”
― Colleen Hoover, Confess
“I’m afraid if I listen to my heart once, I’ll never figure out how to ignore it again.”
― Colleen Hoover, Confess
“He kisses me like I’m his canvas.”
― Colleen Hoover, Confess
“I’ll love you even when I can’t. I’ll love you even when I shouldn’t”
― Colleen Hoover, Confess
“My heart aches to love hers.”
― Colleen Hoover, Confess
“If a person truly cares about you, they’ll get more pleasure from the way they make you feel, rather than the way you make them feel.”
― Colleen Hoover, Confess
“Sometimes the most ordinary things can be made extraordinary, simply by doing them with the right people.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Lucky One
“If your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches.”
― William Goldman, The Princess Bride
“Love is many things none of them logical.”
― William Goldman, The Princess Bride
“I love you. Okay? Want it louder? I LOVE YOU. Spell it out, should I? I ell-oh-vee-ee why-oh-you. Want it backward? You love I.”
― William Goldman, The Princess Bride
“I always watch you. You consume my every thought.”
― M.A. Stacie, Unwritten Rules
“My life was dark, torture and empty before you found me. You brought the light, Red. I love you.”
― M.A. Stacie, Unwritten Rules
“I will spend the rest of my life trying to make you happy, and when you get tired of looking at me, I promise I’ll sing.”
― Amy Harmon, Making Faces
“I would rather be lost with you than alone without you.”
― Amy Harmon, Making Faces
“I have tried to let you go and I cannot. I cannot stop thinking of you. I cannot stop dreaming about you.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus
“When you have love, you find a way to make things work.”
― Mariana Zapata, Kulti
“I love you with all there is of me to love. Heart, soul, brain. Every fibre of body and spirit thrilling to the sweetness of you. There’s nobody in the world for me but you.”
― L.M. Montgomery, The Blue Castle
“I love you because I can be honest with you. I trust you. I love you because you’ve made me see who I’m more than I thought.”
― Barbara Elsborg, Strangers
“Love is the essence of a full and wonderful life.”
― Nicholas Sparks, Nights in Rodanthe
“There is nothing so mortifying as to fall in love with someone who does not share one’s sentiments.”
― Georgette Heyer, Venetia
“I’d rather be miserable loving you than happy with anyone else.”
― Angela Morrison, Sing Me to Sleep
“Your heart. That’s all I want. That’s the best thing you can give me”
― Angela Morrison, Sing Me to Sleep
“The thing about love was that it caught you unawares, turned up in the most unexpected places, even when you weren’t looking for it.”
― Sarra Manning, You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me
“His heart was like a sensitive plant, that opens for a moment in the sunshine, but curls up and shrinks into itself at the slightest touch of the finger, or the lightest breath of wind.”
― Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
“He knows he is my sun, but when he chooses to withhold his light, he would have my sky to be all darkness.”
― Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
“I do love nothing in the world so well as you- is not that strange?”
― William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
“I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest.”
― William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
“When you depart from me sorrow abides and happiness takes his leave.”
― William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
“Increase of love brings increase of happiness, when it is mutual, and pure as that will be.”
― Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
“I would rather love your broken pieces than the whole pieces of anyone”
– B.L. Berry, An Unforgivable Love Story
“Your lips write silent poetry upon mine.”
– B.L. Berry, An Unforgivable Love Story
“I want to walk through this life with you by my side. Your hand in mine. Forever.”
– K. Langston, Because You’re Mine
