The most romantic lines that aren’t written by you

                    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”

#15 “If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you.” – A.A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh

#16 “I’ve loved another with all my heart and soul; and to me, this has always been enough.” – Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

#17 “To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.” – Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

#18 “You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I’m grateful.” – John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

#19 “If I were to live a thousand years, I would belong to you for all of them. If we were to live a thousand lives, I would want to make you mine in each one.” – Michelle Hodkin, The Evolution of Mara Dyer

#20 “If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.” – Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

#21 “Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.” – Percy Bysshe Shelley, Prometheus Bound

#22 “You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought.” – Arthur Conan Doyle, The White Company

#23 “Each time, you happen to me all over again.” – Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

#24 “I do love nothing in the world so well as you—is not that strange?” – William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing

#25 “If it weren’t for her, there would never have been an empty space, or the need to fill it.” – Nicole Krause, The History of Love

#26 “Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be.” – Robert Browning, “Rabbi Ben Ezra” [Read: 11 profound relationship quotes anyone can relate to]

#27 “I look at you and I would rather look at you than all the portraits in the world…” – Frank O’Hara,Having a Coke With You

#28 “When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.” ? Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

#29 “I have a million things to talk to you about. All I want in this world is you. I want to see you and talk. I want the two of us to begin everything from the beginning.” – Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

#30 “It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.” – Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

Now, go grab a bottle of wine. Light some candles. Sit your partner down and recite the words that you think best describe your affection. No need to wear a costume—unless that’s what you’re into.