868 – “I want a soulmate who can sit me down, shut me up, tell me ten things I don’t already know, and make me laugh. I don’t care what you look like, just turn me on.”

–Henry Rollins

856 – “Come ti vidi m’innamorai, e tu sorridi perchè lo sai.”

“When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.”

–Fenton in Giuseppe Verdi’s Falstaff, Libretto by Arrigo Boito

753 – “Do I love you? My god, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches.”

–Westley in William Goldman’s The Princess Bride

555 – “The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. And that’s what you’ve given me. That’s what I’d hoped to give you forever.”

–Nicholas Sparks

517 – “I’ve become skeptical of the unwritten rule that just because a boy and girl appear in the same feature a romance must ensue. Rather, I want to portray a slightly different relationship, one where the two mutually inspire each other to live – if I’m able to, then perhaps I’ll be closer to portraying a true expression of love.”

–Hayao Miyazaki [Attributed]

515 – “You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever.”

–Captain Frederick Wentworth in a letter to Anne Elliott in Jane Austen’s Persuasion

420 – “Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic.”

–Frida Kahlo

288 – “I didn’t fall in love with you. I walked into love with you, with my eyes wide open, choosing to take every step along the way. I do believe in fate and destiny, but I also believe we are only fated to do things that we’d choose anyway. And I’d choose you; in a hundred lifetimes, in a hundred worlds, in any version of reality, I’d find you and choose you.”

–Kiersten White

186 – “When he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun.”

–Juliet Capulet in William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet

168 – “Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by romance of the unusual.”

–Ernest Hemingway