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

800 – “I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat was threadbare – there were holes at his elbows; the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul.”

–Victor Hugo

774 – “You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.”

–anonymous

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

599 -“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.”

–anonymous [Misattributed to Plato, see Source Notes]

571 – “6:59 AM” A Poem

6:59 AM

– Shane Koyczan

I’ve been told

that people in the army

do more by 7:00 AM

than I do

in an entire day

But if I wake

at 6:59 AM

and turn to you

to trace the outline of your lips

with mine

I will have done enough

and killed no one

in the process.

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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

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