"If music be the food of love, play on..."
-Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare

"This was my choice, my decision. He was the closest thing I'd ever had to something, or someone, that mattered. But in the end, close didn't count. You were either in or you weren't."
-Along For the Ride
by Sarah Dessen

"Maybe the truth was, it shouldn't be easy to be amazing. Then everything would be. It's the things you fight for and stuggle with before earning that have the greatest worth. When somethings difficult to come by, you'll do that much more to make sure it's even harder - if not impossible - to lose."
-Along For the Ride
by Sarah Dessen

"It was terrible and awful when someone left you. You could move on, do the best you could, but like Eli had said, an ending was an ending. No matter how many pages of sentences and paragraphs of great stories led up to it, it would always have the last word."
-Along For the Ride
by Sarah Dessen

"Whatever this attraction was, the best thing to do was just ignoring it.
Forget she'd ever noticed.
No problem."
-Footfree and Fancyloose
by Elizabeth Craft and Sarah Fain

"He puts his arms around me. Like everyone else did. Because that's what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you're not so loveable. My throat is full and tight with tears. There are probably a hundred types of crying. Fatigue crying and despair crying and loss crying and relieved crying and narrow-escape crying. This is crying that's the sudden knowledge of love and it's fullness. And right then I learn something very simple and fundamental about love. That it is there or it is not there. That some of our biggest troubles probably come when we try to convince ourselves it it there when it isn't, or that it isn't there when it is."
-The Fortunes of Indigo Skye
by Deb Caletti

"I missed your hair," I say.
He shakes his head.
"I missed your head," I say.
"Goddamnit, In, I missed every part of you."
-The Fortunes of Indigo Skye
by Deb Caletti

"I'd always tell her, why can't I do both? Who says you have to be either smart or pretty or into girly stuff or sports? Life shouldn't be about the either/or. We're capable of more than that, you know?"
-Along For the Ride
by Sarah Dessen

"Really, it had been stupid to expect anything anyway. A few late nights does not a habit, or a relationship, make."
-Along For the Ride
by Sarah Dessen

"If I open it now, what's coming will be instead what has come. This time, right now - it's the intstrumental before the vocals, the love before love's been admitted, the Christmas eve before the Christmas. Some things need a delicious before, and this envelope is one of them."
-The Fortunes of Indigo Skye
by Deb Caletti

"The loss doesn't go away - it just gets bigger the longer you look at it. It's the same with people who say, "Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger." Even people who say this must realize that the exact opposite is true. What doesn't kill you maims you, cripples you, leaves you weak, makes you whiny and full of yourself at the same time."
-Love Is a Mix Tape
by Rob Sheffield

"It's not human to let go of love, even when it's dead. We expected one of these monthly anniversaries to be the Final Goodbye. We figured that we'd said all our goodbyes, and give up all the tears we had to give. We'd passed the test and would get back what we'd lost. But instead, every anniversary it hurt more, and every anniversary it felt like she was further away from coming back. The idea that there wouldn't be a final goodbye - that was a hard goobye to say in itself, and, at that point, still an impossible goodbye."
-Love Is a Mix Tape
by Rob Sheffield

"There is nowhere else I could imagine wanting to be besides here in this car, with this girl, on this road, listening to this song. If she breaks my heart, no matter what hell she puts me through, I can say it was worth it, just because of right now. Out the window is a blur and all I can really hear it this girl's hair flapping in the wind, and maybe if we drive fast enough the universe will lose track of us and forget to stick us somewhere else."
-Love Is a Mix Tape
by Rob Sheffield

"I could already tell there were things happening deep inside me that were irreversible. Is there any scarier word than 'irreversible'? It's a hiss of a word, full of side effects and utilations. Severe tire damage - no backing up. Falling in love with Renee felt that way. I felt strange things going on inside me, and I knew that these weren't things I would recover from. These were changes that were shaping the way things were going to be, and I wouldn't find out how until later. Irreversible."
-Love Is a Mix Tape
by Rob Sheffield

"I don't know what your type is. I don't know what your deal is. I don't even know if you have a boyfriend. I know I like you and I want to be in your life, that's it, and if you have any room for a boyfriend, I would like to be your boyfriend, and if you don't have any room, I would like to be your friend. Any room you have for me in your life is great. If you would like me to start in one room and move to another, I could do that."
-Love Is a Mix Tape
by Rob Sheffield

"I was reading a poem by my idol, Wallace Stevens, in which he said, "The self is a cloister of remembered sounds." My first response was, Yesss! How did he know that? It's like he's reading my mind. But my second response was, I need some new sounds to remember. I've been stuck in my little isolation chamber for so long I'm spinning through the same sounds I've been hearing in my head all my life. If I go on this way, I'll get old too fast, without remembering any more sounds than I already know now. The only one who remembers any of my sounds is me. How do you turn down the volume on your personal-drama earphones and learn how to listen to other people? How do you jump off one moving train, marked Yourself, and jump onto a train moving in the opposite direction, marked Everybody Else?"
-Love Is a Mix Tape
by Rob Sheffield

"I have built my entire life around loving music, and I surround myself with it. I'm always racing to catch up on my next favorite song. But I never stop playing my mixes. Every fan makes them. The times you lived through, the people you shared those times with - nothing brings it all to life like an old mix tape. It does a better job of storing up memories than actual brain tissue can do. Every mix tape tells a story. Put them together, and they add up to the story of a life."
-Love Is a Mix Tape
by Rob Sheffield

"A song nobody likes is a sad thing. But a love song nobody likes is hardly a thing at all."
-Love Is a Mix Tape
by Rob Sheffield

"Nothing conncets to the moment like music. I count on the music to bring me back - or, more precisely, to bring her forward."
-Love Is a Mix Tape
by Rob Sheffield

"The whole world got hceated out of Renee. I got cheated less than anybody, since I got more of her than anybody. But still, I wanted more of her. I wanted to be her guy forever and ever."
-Love Is a Mix Tape
by Rob Sheffield

"I was a wallflower who planned to stay that way, who never imagined anybody else to be. Suddenly, I got all tangled up in this girl's noisy, juicy, sparkly life. Without her, I didn't want to do anything, except keep being good at Renee."
-Love Is a Mix Tape
by Rob Sheffield

"She was in the middle of everything, living her big, messy, epic life, and none of us who loved her will ever catch up with her."
-Love Is a Mix Tape
by Rob Sheffield

"Falling in love with Renee was not the kind of thing you walk away from in one piece. I had no chance. She put a hitch in my git-along."
-Love Is a Mix Tape
by Rob Sheffield

"Everything was changing, that was obvious. The world was so full of music, it seemed we could never run out. 'Twas bliss in that dawn to be alive, but to be young and overworked and underexposed and stuck in a nowhere town was very heaven. It was our time, the first one we had to ourselves."
-Love Is a Mix Tape
by Rob Sheffield

"Opening the book makes him think of Hannah. Not because of something specific in the book itself but because he cannot do anything anymore without thinking of her. When he looks out a window, any window, he thinks of her: maybe she will suddenly magically appear. When he ties his cravat in the morning and stares into the looking glass, he thinks of her: would she approve? When he rides in his carriage he thinks of her, of how beautiful she looked the last time she rode with him (fatigued and distressed, yes, but with more grace and strength than any other woman he has ever known), and imagines what they would say to each other. When he rises in the morning, when he goes to sleep at night, when he is alone, when he is with others."
-The Devlin Diary
by Christi Phillips

"And then, because they were both Englishwomen and their hearts were somewhat broken, they turned back into the room and put on the kettle and made themselves a cup of tea."
-A Song For Summer
by Eva Ibbotson

"How could something so momentous result from such small events: a glance, a few conversations, the discovery of a shared passion? She did not imagine that it was so easy to fall in love, but she is forced to admit that it is. Her whole world has suddenly shifted in a way she didn't anticipate or even desire. It hardly seems fair."
-The Devlin Diary
by Christi Phillips

"She had just asked God to help her forget him, and now he is here. Is it a test? Did she mouth the words without meaning them? In her heart, what exactly did she pray for?"
-The Devlin Diary
by Christi Phillips

"Although she was a logical, practical person, she believed that in books there existed a kind of magic. Between the aging covers on these shelves, contained in tiny, abstract black marks on sheets of paper, were voices from the past. Voices that reached into the future, into Claire's own life and heart and mind, to tell her what they knew, what they'd learned, what they'd seen, what they'd felt. Wasn't that magic?"
-The Devlin Diary
by Christi Phillips

"Claire was reminded of a certain evening in Venice, a certain cobbled street, a certain few words that Andrew had said to her. What were they? 'You're the most argumentative, obstinate, infuriating, exciting, and fascinating woman I've ever met?' Yes, that's exactly what he'd said; she hadn't been able to forget it."
-The Devlin Diary
by Christi Phillips

"I slid a page into the typewriter and without pausing, I proceeded to squeeze out every word, every phrase and expression, every image and letter as if they were the last I was ever going to write. I wrote and rewrote every line as if my life depended on it, and then rewrote it again."
-The Angel's Game
by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

"A writer never forgets the first time he accepted a few coins or a word of praise in exchange for a story. He will never forget the sweet poison of vanity in his blood and the belief that, if he succeeds in not letting anyone discover his lack of talent, the dream of literature will provide him with a roof over his head, a hot meal at the end of the day, and what he covets the most: his name printed on a miserable piece of paper that surely will outlive him. A writer is condemned to remember that moment, because from then on he is doomed and his soul has a price."
-The Angel's Game
by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

"Their greatest comfort was a simple one: they were no longer alone. To know that you were with one who cared for you, and who understood every fiber of your being, and who would not abandon you in even the most desperate of circumstances, that was the most precious relationship a person could have."
-Brisinger
by Christopher Paolini

"You are my only love. No other man shall ever capture my heart."
-Brisinger
by Christopher Paolini

"Her expression told me she had been moving down this pathway since the very first time she set eyes on him. I saw that in him she had found her sun and moon, her stars and her dreams."
-Wildwood Dancing
by Juliet Marillier

"'I love you, Cost,' I said. 'That's the truest truth I ever said. Forever and always. There's no need to be afraid anymore.'"
-Wildwood Dancing
by Juliet Marillier

"His heart and mine added a rhythm all their own. We turned and turned, and with every turning we breathed a little more quickly and held on a little more tightly, and when we came back to the place where we'd started, we stopped dancing and stood with our arms around each other, holding on as if we would never let go, not if the sky fell and the whole world came to an end."
-Wildwood Dancing
by Juliet Marillier

"They danced. All by themsevles, beyond the farthest fringe of the crowd, they circled and swayed, met and parted, turned and passed. Even when the steps of their dance drew them apart, their heads turned to look, and look, and look, as if they would drown in each other's eyes."
-Wildwood Dancing
by Juliet Marillier

"It's just that I know it takes you a while to get used to things. So, I want you to start getting used to this: You're the girl I want. One day, you WILL be mine."
-Princess In Training
by Meg Cabot

"I knew going into this that it wasn't going to be easy, Mia," Michael said. "I mean, aside from the age difference and your being my sister's best friend, there's the whole princess aspect to it...the constant-hounding-by-paparazzi/can't-go-anywhere-without-a-bodyguard thing. A lesser man might find all that daunting. I, on the otherhand, have always enjoyed a challenge. Besides which, I love you, so it's all worth it to me."
-Princess In Training
by Meg Cabot

Ode to M

Oh, M,
why can't you see
that x=you
and y=me?
And that
you + me
= ecstasy
and together we'd B
4ever happy?"

-Princess In the Spotlight
by Meg Cabot

"I though you were always teaching me that a princess has to be strong. I thought you said that a princess, no matter what kind of adversity she is facing, has to put on a brave face and not hide behind her wealth and privlege."
-Princess In the Spotlight
by Meg Cabot

"You are continuously thrust into his presence, knowing that he will never think of you as anything but his little sister's best friend for as long as you live, and yet you continue to pine for him until every fiber of your being cries out for him and you think you are probably going to die even though your Biology teacher says it is physiologically impossible to die from a broken heart."
-Princess In the Spotlight
by Meg Cabot

"Being a princess is hard work."
-The Princess Diaries
by Meg Cabot

"Miss Hayes, have you stopped to consider tha you might have this all backward? That in fact you are my fantasy?"
-Austenland
by Shannon Hale

"I need to admit up front that I don't know how to have a fling. I'm not good at playing around and then saying good-bye. I'm throwing myself at your feet because I'm hoping at a shot at forever. You don't have to say anything now, no promises required. I just thought you should know."
-Austenland
by Shannon Hale

"He nodded. 'And if I don't make you feel like the most beautiful woman in the world every day of your life, then I don't deserve to be near you.'"
-Austenland
by Shannon Hale

"I'd rather die tomorrow than live 100 years not knowing you."
-Pocahontas
Screenplay

"Jane Erstwhile, if I never had to speak with another human being but you, I would die a happy man. I would that these people, the music, the food and foolishness all disappeared and left us alone. I would never tire of looking at you or listening to you."
-Austenland
by Shannon Hale

"Him, him, him! she thought. I want him and this and everything, every flower, every strain of music. And I don't want it wrapped up in a box - I want it living, around me, real. Why can't I have that? I'm not ready to give it up."
-Austenland
by Shannon Hale

"No, she's not my girlfriend. She's not you."
-Confessions of a Shopaholic
Screenplay

"And here you are. Miss Erstwhile. You are infuriating and irritating, and yet I find myself looking for you. I would be grateful if you would send me away and make me swear to never return."
-Austenland
by Shannon Hale

"I must tell you that I love you, and if I live I will ask for your hand, but you needn't say anything now if it distresses you, and I might rather die without knowing that you don't die without knowing that you don't love me if that's how you feel."
The Two Princesses of Bamarre
by Gail Carson Levine

"Time is very slow for those who wait, very fast for those who are scared, very long for those who lament, very short for those who celebrate. But, for those who love, time is eternity."
-William Shakespeare

"I have you, and you have me, he said. A house is only stones and grass. We have all the stones, all the grass, the sea, and the sky. All the far fields, they are ours...We have everything we want for our journey, and we are together all times..."
The Raging Quiet
by Sheryll Jordan

"If I can see your face, he signed, I'll be happy.
The Raging Quiet
by Sherryl Jordan

"I don't want to stay here without you, he signed. i can't be without you. You are me. We are the same, in our hearts. He stopped, searching for wrods, frustrated and near tears. He went on: I feel...feelings too big, I have no words. If you go away from me, I will lie down and sleep, and not wake up again.
The Raging Quiet
by Sherryl Jordan

"What can I do, to stop your hurt?
Nothing more, she said. You do everything, and you make me all right. Thank you.
Very gently, he touched her sooty cheek. If there was a way, he said, I'd take your hurt, and carry it for you."
The Raging Quiet
by Sherryl Jordan

"For what is not connected with her to me? and what does not recall her? I cannot look down to this floor, but her features are shaped in the flags! Every cloud, every tree - filling the air at night, and caught by glimpses in every object by day - I am surrounded with her image! The most ordinary foaces of men and women - my own features - mock me with a resemblance. The entire world is a dreadful collection of memoranda that she did exist, and that I have lost her!"
Wuthering Heights
by Emily Bronte

"Run as much and as far as you like, Rosie, it won't make any difference. You're mine. We're locked together. One day you'll have to admit it."
The China Garden
by Liz Berry

"He's not a human being, and he has no claim on my charity. I gave him my heart and he took it and pinched it to deat, and flung it back to me. People feel with their hearts, Ellen: and since he has destroyed mine, I have not power to feel for him..."
Wuthering Heights
by Emily Bronte

"Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I cannot live without my life. I cannot live without my soul!"
Wuthering Heights
by Emily Bronte

"It is strange what the mind can do when the heart is giving the directions."
The History of Love
by Nicole Krauss

"God must know his arithmetic. He'd plan it out well enough to plunk down a husband for every wife that He aims for to have one. If the Lord hasn't got a boyfriend lined up for me to marry, that's His business."
The Poisonwood Bible
by Barbara Kingsolver

"No boy ever looked at me except for homework help. And to tell the truth, I can't say that I care. Kissing looks like too much of somebody ele's dental hygience if you ask me. If you want to see stars - which is what Rachel claims it's all about - then why not just go climb up a tree in the dark?"
The Poisonwood Bible
by Barbara Kingsolver

"So he shall never known how much I love him: and that, not because he's handsome, but because he's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same..."
Wuthering Heights
by Emily Bronte

"I'll always say my prayers after this, as Grandmama told me to, and if God doesn't answer them at once I shall know it's because He's planning something better for me."
Heidi
by Johanna Spyri

"So many books. Too many books...You're clearly an inveterate reader. A girl after my own heart."
Coming Home
by Rosamunde Pilcher

"Wouldn't it be fun if all the castles in the air which we make could come true and we could live in them?"
Little Women
by Louisa May Alcott

"He that loves reading has everything within his reach."
-William Godwin

"I do thank God for my books with every fiber of my being."
-Oswald Chambers

"And the crazy part of it was that even if you were clever, even if you spent your adolescence reading John Donne and Shaw, even if you studied history or zoology or phsics and hoped to spend your life pursuing some difficult and challenging career - you still had a mind full of all the soupy longings that every high school girl was awash in."
Fear of Flying
by Erica Jong

"She is always unwilling to understand, to listen.
She laughs to hide her fear or herself.
She has always walked beneath the arches of nights
And wherever she went
She left
The mark of broken things."
-Park Eluard

"He pressed his back against the bark and pulled me to his chest, too suddenly, too close. I looked away. It can be so embarrassing to be human."
This Side of the Sky
by Elyse Singleton

"We go to see our favorite local bar band, the Hold Steady, every time they play. They always end with our favorite song, Killer Parties, and sometimes I think, man, all the people I get to hear this song with, we're going to miss each other when we die. When we die, we'll turn into songs, and we will hear each other and remember each other."
Love Is a Mix Tape
by Rob Sheffield

"You konw what I am going to say. I love you...You could draw me to fire, you could draw me to water, you could draw me to the gallows, you could draw me to any death, you could draw me to anything I have most avoided, you could draw me to any exposure and disgrace...But if you would return a favorable answer to my offer of myself in marriage, you could draw me to any good - every good - with equal force."
Our Mutual Friend
by Charles Dickens

"He did not know whether he would live out the day. And he had only one reason to care. The single thing that redeemed the world was that somewhere, she lived. Even now, in this endless winter, he could feel the warmth of her hand."
This Side of the Sky
by Elyse Singleton

"Frighten me? Yes, you do frighten me. You act as though we will be together forever. You act as though there is infinite pleasure and time without end. How can I know that? My experience has been that time always ends. In theory you are right, the quantam physicists are right, the romantics and relgious are right. Time without end. In practice we both wear a watch. If I rush at this relationships it's because I fear for it. I fear you have a door I cannot see and that at any minute now the door will open and you'll be gone. Then what? Then what as I bang the walls like the Inquisition searching for a saint? Where will I find the secret passage? For me, it'll just be the same four walls."
Written On the Body
by Jeanette Winterson

"Sometimes it seemed her had been waiting for her forever, but now at last he knew she was coming."
The China Garden
by Liz Berry

"'I thought love would be like the slow movement of the Mozart Sinfonia Concertante...or like one of those uplifting paintings my mother used to take me to look at with putti and clouds and golden rays...or even like the sea. But it isn't, is it?'
'No. Love is like itself.'"
The Morning Gift
by Eva Ibbotson

"'I love it so much, this river.'
'I too,' said Quin. 'As a matter of fact I think I might go in for some bottle throwing on my own account. I shall go out tomorrow and buy a thousand lemonade bottles and put a note in each and every one and drop them from the bridge.'
'What will they say ,the notes? What will you put in them?'
He turned his head, surprised at her obtuseness. 'Your name, of course. What else?'"
The Morning Gift
by Eva Ibbotson

"One day we'd fly away, and it would be a flight of unsung hearts and untried legs..."
This Side of the Sky
by Elyse Singleton

"I want to live like music sounds."
The Morning Gift
by Eva Ibbotson

"It could be anything. Maybe you make him laugh. Maybe you help him see the world in a different way. Maybe it's because you're pretty. Maybe he admires you because you're fearless. Maybe there's just something about you that sets his heart on fire."
The Cubicle Next Door
by Siri L. Mitchell

"What did I ever do to you? What do you think you can just crash into my world and drag me into yours? Why do you think I'd even want to go? Who do you think you are? Why can't you just leave me alone? Why do I even care?"
The Cubicle Next Door
by Siri L. Mitchell

"'You will get me out of your thoughts in a week.'
'Out of my thoughts! You are part of my existence, part of myself. You have been in every line I have ever read, since i first came here, the rough common boy whose poor heart you wounded even then. You have been in every prospect I have ever seen - You have been the embodiment of every graceful fancy that my mind has ever become aquainted with...Estella, to the last hour of my life, you cannot choose but remain part of my character, part of the little good in me, part of the evil..."
Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens

"Half the time you make me want to scream. But the other half? The other half of the time you're kind of...nice to be around. It's sort of...fun. More than fun. It's comfortable. Comforting. How can you make me want to scream and make me feel like I've been warpped in a big warm blanket? All at the same time?"
The Cubicle Next Door
by Siri L. Mitchell

"If you ask me what I came into this world to do, I will tell you. I came to live out loud."
-Emil Zola

"Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you."
The Shadow of the Wind
by Carlos Ruis Zafan

"Even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth 'You owe me.' Look what happens with a love like that. It lights the whole sky."
-Hafiz

"Have you ever been in love? Horrible, isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and opens your heart, and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up."
The Sandman, vol. 9
by Neil Gaiman

"We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it."
-Ernesto Che Guevara

"She makes me laugh and cry.
I reflect her glow and believe that I am glowing too.
To please her for a minute pleases me a week.
She has thunder and lightning, rage and job.
She breathes in the high notes
And exhales the low.
She wakes me up
And makes me sing."
Fairest
by Gail Carson Levine

"I was born singing. Most babies cry. I sang an aria."
Fairest
by Gail Carson Levine

"But if called upon to repeat what I said or what he said, I couldn't. Most of my mind and all my heart were set on the sound of his voice, the warmth of his arm in mine, the rhythm of our steps together, the fresh scent of the night air. And on the wish that each minute would last a year."
Ella Enchanted
by Gail Carson Levine

"'You really don't know anything about me.'
'I know some things.'
'You don't know everything.'
'I know enough.'
'Enough to what?'
'Known you're weird in a cute sort of way.'
'I am not...cute.'
He gave me a long look. 'No. You're right. You're not.'
Funny how hearing the truth can feel like disappointment.
He flashed a grin. 'You're fascinating, mysterious, and intriguing. Cute is too benign for you."
The Cubicle Next Door
by Siri L. Mitchell

"If you had grown up with me, this is one of things I would have tried to teach you. Marry a man who loves you more than you love him. Because I have done both now, and when it is the other way around, there is no spell in the world that can even out that balance."
Vanishing Act
by Jodi Picoult

"I love you now. I love you immortally, even if I die and there is nothing left of me."
Ever
by Gail Carson Levine

"Every curl is a reason I love you.
Your fingers make ten more.
Each smile, each glance, each word.
The reasons reach heaven.
Loving you makes me love myself more.
Loving you makes me love you evermore."
Fairest
by Gail Carson Levine

"Oh, love...Sweet, I adore your face and your hands and the scent of your skin and the thicket of your hair."
Fairest
by Gail Carson Levine

"I sing of you as I search.
You are my love.
I hope someday to be yours once again."
Fairest
by Gail Carson Levine

"But in bed, before I fell asleep, I'd imagine what I would do if I were free of Lucinda's curse. At dinner I'd paint lines of gravy on my fae and hurl meat pasties at Manners Mistress. I'd pile Headmistress's best china on my head and walk with a wobble and a swagger till every piece was smashed. Then I'd collect the smashed pottery and the smashed meat pasties and grind them into all my perfect stichery."
Ella Enchanted
by Gail Carson Levine

"Then I was aware again of the sounds of the orchestra far below. I took a gliding step. I twirled. He bowed.
'The young lady must not dance alone.'
I had danced only at school with other pupils or our mistresses for partners.
He put his hand on my waist, and my heart began to pound, a rougher rhythm than the music. I held my skirt. Our free hands met. His felt warm and comforting and unsettling and bewildering - all at once."
Ella Enchanted
by Gail Carson Levine

"I hadn't loved him as long, perhaps, but now I loved him equally well, or better. I loved his laugh, his handwriting, his steady gaze, his honorableness, his freckles, his apprectiation of my jokes, his hands, his determination that I should know the worst of him. And, most of all, shameful though it might be, I loved his love for me."
Ella Enchanted
by Gail Carson Levine

"Dear Ella,
Impatience is not usually my weakness. But your letters torment me. They make me long to saddle my horse and ride to Frell, where I would make you explain yourself.
They are playful, interesting, thoughtful, and (occasionally) serious. I'm overjoyed to receive them, yet they bring misery. You say little of your daily life; I have no idea how you occupy yourself. I don't mind; I enjoy guessing at the mystery. But what I really long to know you do not tell either: what you feel, although I've give you hints by the score of my regard.
You like me. You wouldn't waste time or paper on a being you didn't like. But I think I've loved you since we met at your mother's funeral. I want to be with you forever and beyond, but you write that are too young to marry or too old or too short or too hungry - until I crumple your letters up in despair, only to smooth them out again for a twelfth reading, hunting for hidden meanings.
Father asks frequently in his letters whether I fancy any Ayorthain young lady or any in our acquaintence at home. I say no. I suppose I'm confessing another fault: pride. I don't want him to know that I love if my affections are not returned.
You would charm him, and Mother too. They would be yours completely. As I am.
What a beautiful bride you'll be, whenever you marry at whatever age. And what a queen if I am the man! Who has your grace? Your expression? Your voice? I could extol your virtues endlessly, but I want you to finish reading and answer me quickly.
Today I cannot write of Ayortha or my doings or anything. I can only post this and wait.
Love (it is such a relief to pen the word!), love, love-
Char"
Ella Enchanted
by Gail Carson Levine

"Not many of my imagined conversations are with the duke. Most of them are with you. I know what I would say if I were in Frell. I'd tell you at least three times how glad I was to see you...I might turn Ayorthian and trail off into silence, lost in smiling at you."
Ella Enchanted
by Gail Carson Levine

"I will love you my whole life, you and no other."
Braveheart
Screenplay

"I would trade food for love even if I was starving."
Princess of Thieves
Screenplay

"I love you. Always have. I want to marry you."
Braveheart
Screenplay

"I'm not really up for answering questions that start with how, when, where, why, or what."
Looking For Alaska
by John Green

"You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present."
Looking For Alaska
by John Green

"I wanted to be one of those people who have streaks to maintain, who scorch the ground with their intensity. But for now, at least I knew such people, and they needed me, just like comets need tails."
Looking For Alaska
by John Green

"How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!"
-Simon Bolivar (last words)

"Because you simply cannot draw these things out forever At some point, you just pull off the Band-Aid and it hurts, but then it's over and you're relieved."
Looking For Alaska
by John Green

"If a guy like you can stand up and do what you did, then maybe everyone can. Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of."
I Am the Messenger
by Markus Zusak

"I got hearts, and for some reason, this feels the most dangerous of them all. People die of broken hearts. They have heart attacks. And it's the heart that hurts most when things go wrong and fall apart."
I Am the Messenger
by Markus Zusak

"I go to seek a Great Perhaps."
-Francois Rabelais (last words)

"Sometimes people are beautiful.
Not in looks.
Not in what they say.
Just in what they do."
I Am the Messenger
by Markus Zusak

"I have tried so hard to do right."
-President Grover Cleaveland (last words)

"'You're my best friend, Ed.'
'I know.'
You could kill a man with those words.
No gun.
No bullets.
Just words and a girl."
I Am the Messenger
by Markus Zusak

"Dearest Milla,
My sould needs yours.
Love,
Jimmy"
I Am the Messenger
by Markus Zusak

"I couldn't figure out what I had won, all I could see was that my losing her was one big black stormy cloud. But then I realize as every day went by, and I thought about her every second and smiled, that meeting her, knowning her, and above all, loving her, was the biggest silver lining of all."
If You Could See Me Now
by Cecelia Ahern

"I loved you the moment I saw you, and I will always love you."
If You See Me Now
by Cecelia Ahern

"Life is made up of meetings and partings. People come into your life every day, you say good morning, you say good evening, some stay for a few minutes, some stay for a few months, some a year, others a whole lifetime. No matter who it is, you meet and then you part. I'm so glad I met you; I'll thank my lucky stars for that. I think I wished for you all of my life. But now it's time for us to part."
If You Could See Me Now
by Cecelia Ahern

"But as for your heart, when that breaks, it's completely silent. You would think as it's so important it would make the loudest noise in the whole world or even have some sort of ceremonious sound...But it's silent, and you almost wish there was a noise to distract you from the pain."
If You Could See Me Now
by Cecelia Ahern

"He said to tell you that his heart has ached every moment you were apart."
If You Could See Me Now
by Cecelia Ahern

"Dearest! If you love me, you are mine. Who can have so great a claim on you as I have? My life is bound up in your love. There is nothing in the past that can annul our right to each other; it is the first time we have either of us loved with our whole heart and soul."
The Mill on the Floss
by George Eliot

"Many things are difficult and dark to me, but I see one thing quite clearly: that I must not, cannot, seek my own happiness by sacrificing others."
The Mill on the Floss
by George Eliot

"Say yes, dearest. What could we care about in the whole world beside, if we belonged to each other?"
The Mill on the Floss
by George Eliot

"It is unnatural, it is horrible. Maggie, if you loved me as I love you, we should throw everything else to the winds for the sake of belonging to each other. We should break all these mistaken ties that were made in blindness, and determine to marry each other."
The Mill on the Floss
by George Eliot

"As if it were not enough that I'm entangled in this way, that I'm mad with love for you...And when, if I had my own choice, I should ask you to take my hand, and my fortune, and my whole life, and do what you liked with them!"
The Mill on the Floss
by George Eliot

"It is all new and strange to me, but I don't think I could love anyone better than I love you. I should like always to live with you, to make you happy. I have always been happy when I have been with you."
The Mill on the Floss
by George Eliot

"Don't think of the past now; think only of our love. If you can cling to me with all your heart, every obstacle will be overcome in time; we need only wait. I can live on hope."
The Mill on the Floss
by George Eliot

"I think I could hardly love anyone better; there is nothig but what I love you for."
The Mill on the Floss
by George Eliot

"He would be her guardian angel; he would do anything, bear anything, for her sake - except not seeing her."
The Mill on the Floss
by George Eliot

"My characters will, after some trouble, have all that they desire."
Becoming Jane
Screenplay

"No, Jane! I will never give you up!"
Becoming Jane
Screenplay

"What value would there be in life if we are not together?"
Becoming Jane
Screenplay

"Jane, I am yours. I am yours. I am yours - heart and soul."
Becoming Jane
Screenplay

"I gazed neither on sky nor earth: my heart was with my eyes; and both seemed migrated into Mr. Rochester's frame."
Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Bronte

"My darling, hot-tempered, pigheaded, wonderful, infuriating Scarlett, do you realize we've been through this before? Missed signals, missed chances, misunderstandings that need never have happened. We've got to stop it. I'm too old for all this drama."
Scarlett
by Alexandra Ripley

"Every time you flirt with her, a puppy dies."
Suite Scarlett
by Maureen Johnson

"Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become."
-Steve Jobs

";fear
no fate (for you are my fate, my sweet)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you
i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)"
-E. E. Cummings

"I try to concentrate on this, on being here. I don't want to think about him anymore. Somewhere underneath it all, I know he doesn't deserve to take up space in my brain."
Take Me There
by Susane Colasanti

"To move the world, we must first move ourselves."
-Socrates

"It had been so long since she had seen him, and she had lived on memories until they were worn thing. She knew he still loved her. That fact was evident, in every line of him...She so longed to hear him say it in words, longed to speak words herself that would provoke a confession, but she dared not."
Gone With the Wind
by Margaret Mitchell

"I want you more than I have ever wanted any woman - and I've waited longer for you than I've ever waited for any woman."
Gone With the Wind
by Margaret Mitchell

"You are so fine and strong and good. So beautiful, not just your sweet face, my dear, but all of you, your body and your mind and your soul...I like to think that perhaps I know you better than most people, and that I can see beautiful things buried deep in you that others are too careless and too hurried to notice."
Gone With the Wind
by Margaret Mitchell

"You know you always look beautiful to me."
Gone With the Wind
by Margaret Mitchell

"You're you, and I'm me, and I love you."
Bloom
by Elizabeth Scott

"For attractive lips, speak words of kindness. For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people. For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry. For beautiful hair, let a child run his or her fingers through it once a day. For poise, walk with the knowledge that you're never alone."
-Sam Levenson

"And yet, to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together nowadays."
A Midsummer's Night Dreams
by William Shakespeare

"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live."
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Screenplay

"God is with me. Jesus is near. The Spirit is greater than my fear."
Kiss
by Ted Dekker and Erin Healy

"So do not throw away your confidence; it will be richly rewarded. You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what he was promised."
Hebrews 10:35-36

"To single people - the most untapped group of world changers. God has a mission for you right now: Follow Him and He will take care of everything else."
What's a Girl To Do?
by Janet M. Folger

"I have immortal longings in me."
-William Shakespeare

"I come not to praise us, but to bury us."
-Julius Caesar

"It was amazing, in a way, that he occupied space like a regular human being. He was so monumental to her. For these two years he'd represented not only himself but all the complicated things she'd felt about herself."
Girls in Pants
by Ann Brashares

"Where there is great love, there are always miracles."
-Willa Cather

"In summer, the song sings itself."
-William Carlos Williams

"I'm afraid of not having enough time. Not having enough time to understand people, how they really are, or to be understood myself. I'm afraid of the quick judgements and mistakes that everybody makes. You can't fix them without time. I'm afraid of seeing snapshots instead of movies."
The Sisterhood of the Travling Pants
by Ann Brashares

"Oh, who can tell, save he whose heart hath tried."
-Lord Byron

"The art of music is divine and effective. It is the food of the soul and spirit. Through the power and charm of music, and the spirit of man is uplifted."
-Abdu'l Baha

"Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday."
-Author Anonymous

"Not all who wander are lost."
-J.R.R. Tolkien

"Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love."
Northanger Abbey
by Jane Austen

"A fanatic is one who won't change his mind and can't change the subject."
-Winston Churhill

"If you obey all the rules, you'll miss all the fun."
-Elenor Roosevelt

"Love - you need to let little things that would ordinarily bore you suddenly thrill you."
-Andy Worhol

"She could do this. She could. It wasn't that hard. She loved him, maybe so, but she also loved being with him. She could be happy with just that. She didn't need any more."
Girls in Pants
by Ann Brashares

"Dream of things that never were."
-John F. Kennedy

"Our aspirations are our possibilities."
-Robert Browning

"But I believe in music the way that some people believe in fairy tales."
August Rush
Screenplay

"He rescued me because he delighted in me."
2 Samuel 22:20

"He must become greater; I must become less."
John 3:30

"Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and books of all time."
-Author Anonymous

"A writer paints with words."
-Author Anonymous

"You're the only one who has ever touched my heart. It will always be yours."
Eclipse
by Stephanie Meyer

"Do you really have any idea how important you are to me? Any concept at all of how much I love you?
Eclipse
by Stephanie Meyer

"I can listen no longer in silence. I must speak to you by such means as are within my reach. You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone forever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight years and a half ago. Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you. Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant. You alone have brought me here. For you alone, I think and plan. Have you not seen this? Can you fail to have understood my wishes? I had not waited even these ten days, could I have read your feelings, as I think you must have penetrated mine. I can hardly write. I am every instant hearing something which overpowers me. You do us justice, indeed. You do believe that there is true attachment and constancy among men. Believe it to be most fervent, most undeviating, in me."
Persuasion
by Jane Austen

"I love books. I like that the moment you open one and sink into it you can escape from the world, into a story that's way more interesting than yours will ever be."
Bloom
by Elizabeth Scott

"Their place in your heart is tender; a bruise of longing, a pulse of unfinished business...Just hearing their name pushes and pulls at you in a hundred ways, and when you try to define those hundred ways, describe them even to yourself, words are useless."
Sweethearts
by Sara Zarr

"He's a story I want to know from page one."
Sweethearts
by Sara Zarr

"You wish for something, you've wanted it for years, and you're sure you want it, as long as you know you can't hav it. But if all at once it looks as though your wish might come true, you suddenly find yourself wishing you had never wished for any such thing."
The Neverending Story
by Michel Ende

"When I get a little money, I buy books; and if any is left, I buy food and clothes."
-Erasmus

"Because one thing he was good at, possibly the only thing, was imaging things so clearly that he almost saw and hear them. When he told himself stories, he sometimes forgot everything around him and awoke - as though from a dream - only when the story was finished."
The Neverending Story
by Michel Ende

"If you have never wept bitter tears because a wonderful story has come to an end and you must take your leave of the characters with whom you have shared so many adventures, whom you have loved and admired, for whom you have hoped and feared, and without whose company life seems empty and meaningless..."
The Neverending Story
by Michel End

"For God is not a God of disorder but of peace."
1 Corinthians 14:33

"The bond forged between us was not one that could be broken by absence, distance, or time. And no matter how much more special or beautiful or brilliant or perfect than me he might be, he was as irreversibly altered as I was. As I would always belong to him, so he would always be mine."
New Moon
by Stephanie Meyer

"Love is irrational...The more you loved someone, the less sense anything made."
New Moon
by Stephanie Meyer

"It's just that, I know how you're unhappy a lot. And, maybe it doesn't help anything, but I wanted you to know that I'm always here. I won't ever let you down - I promise that you can always count on me."
New Moon
by Stephanie Meyer

"Time passes. Even when it seems impossible."
New Moon
by Stephanie Meyer

"You can have my soul. I don't want it without you - it's yours already!"
New Moon
by Stephanie Meyer

"You know, when it works, love is pretty amazing. It's not overrated. There's a reason for all those songs."
This Lullaby
by Sarah Dessen

"What did it feel like, I wondered, to love someone that much? So much that you couldn't even control yourself when they came close, as if you might just break free of whatever was holding you and throw yourself at them with enough force to easily overwhelm you both."
This Lullaby
by Sarah Dessen

"She'll be back soon. She's just writing."
This Lullaby
by Sarah Dessen

"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."
-Camus

"...there are a lot of people in the world. No one ever sees everything the same way you do; it just doesn't happen. So when you find one person who gets a couple of things, especially if they're important ones...you might as well hold on to them."
Lock and Key
by Sarah Dessen

"Everyone has their weak spot. The one thing that despite your best efforts, will always bring you to your knees, regardless of how strong you are otherwise."
Lock and Key
by Sarah Dessen

"...not everything's perfect, especially at the beginning. And it's all right to have a little bit of regret every once in a while. It's when you feel it all the time and can't do anything about it...that's when you get in trouble."
Lock and Key
by Sarah Dessen

"You must have known that it was not my way to flatter and talk soft nonsense, or even to speak the admiration that I felt; and that a single word or glance of mine meant more than the honied phrases and fervent protestations of most other men."
Agnes Grey
by Anne Bronte

"...but not one of them will suit me for a companion; in fact, there is only one person in the world that will: and that is yourself..."
Agnes Grey
by Anne Bronte

"I gave up hoping, for even my heart acknowledged it was all in vain. But still, I would think of him: I would cherish his image in my mind; and treasure every word, look, and gesture that my memory could retain; and brood over his excellences and his peculiarities, and, in fact, all I had seen, heard, or imagined respecting him."
Agnes Grey
by Anne Bronte

"He had not breathed a word of love, or dropped one hint of tenderness or affection, and yet I had been supremely happy. To be near him, to hear him talk as he did talk, and to feel that he thought me worthy to be so spoken to - capable of understanding and duly appreciating such discourse - was enough."
Agnes Grey
by Anne Bronte

"Yes, at least, they could not deprive me of that: I could think of him day and night; and I feel that he was worthy to be thought of. Nobody knew him as I did; nobody could apprectiate him as I did; nobody could love him as I - could, if I might: but there was the evil. What business had I to think so much of one that never thought of me? Was it not foolish? Was it not wrong? Yet, if I found such deep delight in thinking of him, and if I kept those thoughts to myself, and troubled no one else with them, where was the harm of it? I would ask myself. And such reasoning prevented me from making any sufficient effort to shake off my fetters."
Agnes Grey
by Anne Bronte

"...my only consolation was in thinking that, though he knew it not, I was more worthy of his love than Rosalie Murray, charming and engaging as she was; for I could apprectiate his excellence, which she could not; I would devote my life to the promotion of his happiness; she would destroy his happiness for the momentary gratification of her own vanity."
Agnes Grey
by Anne Bronte

"...I used to rush into strange dreams at night: dreams many-colored, agitated, full of the ideal, the stirring, the stormy - dreams where admidst unusual scenes, charged with adventure, with agitating risk and romantic chance, I still again and again met Mr. Rochester, always at some exciting crisis; and then the sense of being in his arms, hearing his voice, meeting his eye, touching his hand and cheek, loving him, being loved by him - the hope of passing a lifetime at his side, would be renewed, with all its first force and fire."
Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Bronte

"Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me aJas my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear. Your mind is my treasure, and if it were broken, it would be my treasure still."
Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Bronte

"Love is never lost; if not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart."
-Washington Irving

"Speak softly and carry a big stick."
-Theodore Roosevelt

"He made the world to be a grassy road before her wandering feet."
-W.B. Yeats

"What is it that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the words I have read in my life."
-Walt Whitman

"Any place, at any time. If you are thinking of me, you can be sure that I am thinking of you."
The Second Summer of the Sisterhood
by Ann Brashares

"You have bewitched me, body and soul."
Pride and Prejudice
Screenplay

"Honestly, I had no idea that the heart could cause such trouble and strife. It could be broken and still mend. It could be wounded and still heal. It could be given away and still returned, lost and still found. It could do all that and still you lived, though only just, according to some."
I, Coriander
by Sally Gardner

"There is no remedy for love but to love more."
-Henry David Thoreau

"There's something about a blank page that makes me tingle. I love how smooth, and crips, and clean it is. I love how this plain and perfect piece of paper seems to be just waiting for me to put my own special mark on it, to make it mine. And now that I think of it, that's exactly what I love about tomorrows."
Moving Day
by Nikki Grimes

"The sun itself sees not 'till heaven clears."
-William Shakespeare

"Starlight, starbright - where the heck is Mr. Right?"
-Author Anonymous

"I realized a broken heart isn't so much the loss of a person as it is the loss of your dreams with that person."
Love, Cajun Style
by Diane Les Becquets

"Dance as thought no one is watching you
Love as though you have never been hurt before
Sing as though no one can hear you
Live as though heaven is on earth."
-Souza

"Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as braided hair and the wearing of gold jewelry and fine clothes. Instead, it should be that of your inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great worth in God's sight. For this is the way the holy women of the past who put thier hope in God used to make themselves beautiful."
1 Peter 3:3-5

"Ordinary people can [love] - that is their secret."
- Herman Hesse

"Every experience of beauty points to [eternity]."
-Hans Urs von Balthasar

"Man's love is of man's life a thing apart; tis a woman's whole existence."
-Lord Byron

"Even to see her walk across the room is a liberal education."
-C. S. Lewis

"I will find you. No matter how long it takes, no matter how far - I will find you."
The Last of the Mohicans
Screenplay

"Then the time came when the risk it took to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."
-Anais Nin

"You belong among the wildflowers
You belong in a boat at sea
You belong with your love on your arm
You belog somewhere you feel free."
-Tom Petty

"Delight yourself in the Lord, and He will give you the desires of your heart."
Psalm 37:4

"And a gem does not seek. It is sought."
Saved & Single
Author Anonymous

"There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single, flashing, throbbing moment."
The Truth About Forever
by Sarah Dessen

"You have thrilled my heart with a glance of your eyes..."
Song of Soloman 4:9

"It is a golrious thing to have the hope of living with you, because I love you."
Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Bronte

"Do you know, Gilbert, there are times when I strongly suspect that I love you."
Anne of Windy Poplars
by L. M. Montgomery

"You, Jane, I must have you for my own - entirely my own. Will you be mine? Say yes quickly."
Jane Eyre
by Jane Asuten

"Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music."
-Ronald Reagan

"I am strangely glad to get back again to you; and wherever you are is my home - my only home."
Jane Eyre
by Jane Austen

"Well, he is not a ghost; yet every nerve I have is unstrung: for a moment I am beyond my own mastery. What does it mean? I did not think I should tremble in this way when I saw him, or lose my voice or the power of my motion in his presence."
Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Bronte

"But if you wish me to love you, could you but see how much I do love you, you would be proud and content. All my heart is yours, sir: it belongs to you; and with you it would remaind, were fate to exile the rest of me from your presence for ever."
Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Bronte

"No sooner did I see that his attention was riveted on them, and that I might gaze without being observed, than my eyes were drawn involuntarily to his face; I could not keep their lids under control: they would rise, and the irids would fix on him. I looked, and had an acute pleasure in looking..."
Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Bronte

"When things are horrible - just horrible - I think as hard as ever I can of being a princess. I say to myself, 'I am a princess.' You don't know how it makes you forget."
A Little Princess
by Frances Hodgson Burnett

"Whatever comes...cannot alter one thing. If I am a princess in rags and tatters, I can be a princess inside. It would be easy to be a princess if I were dressed in cloth of gold, but it is a great deal more of a triumph to be one all the time when no one knows it."
A Little Princess
by Frances Hodgson Burnett

"Loving, guiding, protecting her, as he had been doing ever since her being ten years old, her mind in so great a degree formed by his care, and her comfort depending on his kindness, and object to him or such close and peculiar interest, dearer by all his own imprtance with her than anyone else..."
Mansfield Park
by Jane Austen

"For this one night, could we try to forget everything besides just you and me? It seems like I can never get enough time like that. I need to be with you. Just you."
Eclipse
by Stephanie Meyer

"Look after my heart - I've left it with you."
Eclipse
by Stephanie Meyer

"If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends."
Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Bronte

"Before you, Bella, my life was like a moonless night. Very dark, but there were stars - points of light and reason...And then you shot across my sky like a meteor. Suddenly everything was on fire; there was brillancy, there was beauty. When you were gone, when the meteor had fallen over the horizon, everything went black. Nothing had changed, but my eyes were blinded by the light. I couldn't see the stars anymore. And there was no more reason for anything."
New Moon
by Stephanie Meyer

"A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment."
-Jane Austen

"You are not asleep, and you're not dead. I'm here, and I love you. I have always loved you, and I will always love you. I was thinking of you, seeing your face in my mind, every second that I was away. When I told you that I didn't want you, it was the very blackest kind of blasphemy."
New Moon
by Stephanie Meyer

"The Lord your God is with you
He is mighty to save
He will take great delight in you
He will quiet you with his love
He will rejoice over you with singing."
Zephaniah 3:17

"Isn't it supposed to be like this? The glory of first love, and all that. It's incredible, isn't it, the difference between reading about something, seeing it in the pictures, and experiencing it?"
Twilight
by Stephanie Meyer

"You are the most important thing to me now, the most important thing to me ever."
Twilight
by Stephanie Meyer

"The way you're singing in your sleep
The way you look before you leap
The strange illusions that you keep
You don't know
But I'm noticing."
Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist
by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan

"I am liking that I have to earn her smiles and laughs."
Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist
by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan

"It is sometimes a disadvantage to be so very guarded. In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels."
Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen

"'I love you,' I whispered.
'You are my life now,' he answered simply."
Twilight
by Stephanie Meyer

"My eyes are still used to searching for her in a crowd. My breath is still used to catching when I see her and the light is angled just right."
Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist
by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan

"Because a song can take you back instantly to a moment or a place, or even a person. No matter what else has changed in you or the world, that one song stays the same, just like that moment."
Just Listen
by Sarah Dessen

"Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish."
-Hermann Hesse

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
-Elenor Roosevelt

"He stinketh."
John 11:39, KJV

"I'm a thinker who thinks about other thinker's thoughts."
-Ben Franklin

"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. It is not important that he should mature as soon as an apple tree or an oak."
Walden
by Henry David Thoreau

"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them..."
Walden
by Henry David Thoreau

"I want my daughters to be beautiful, accomplished, and good; to be admired, lovely and respected; to have a happy youth, to be well and wisely married, and to lead useful, pleasant lives with as little care and sorrow to try them as God sees fit to send. To be loved and chosen by a good man is the best and sweetest thing which can happen to a woman and I sincerely hope my girls may know this beautiful experience. It is natural to think of it, Meg, right to hope and wait for it, and wise to prepare for it, so that when the happy time comes, you may feel ready for the duties and worthy of the joy...I'd rather see you poor mens' wives, if you were happy, beloved, contented, than queens on thrones, without self-respect and peace....better be happy old maids than unhappy wives of unmaidenly girls, running about to find husbands."
Little Women
by Louisa May Alcott

"The morning wind forever blows, the poem of creation is uninterrupted, but few are the ears that hear it."
Walden
by Henry David Thoreau

"Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live."
-Margaret Fuller

"I'm glad you can't flirt; it's really refreshing to see a sensible, straight forward girl, who can be jolly and kind without making a fool of herself. Between ourselves, Jo, some of the girls I know really do go on at such a rate, I'm ashamed of them. They don't mean any harm, I'm sure, but if they knew how we fellows talked about them afterward, they'd mend their ways, I fancy."
Little Women
by Louisa May Alcott

"Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love deoes not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trust, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails."
1 Corinthians 13:4-8

"'...and quite proper, for a real lady is always known by neat boots, gloves, and handkerchief,' replied Meg."
Little Women
by Louisa May Alcott

"...That we are God's children. Now if we are children we are heirs - heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory."
Romans 8:16-17

"The pretty, modest girls are never talked about, except respectfully, among gentlemen."
Little Women
by Lousia May Alcott

"To you I shall say, as I have often said before, Do not be in a hurry, the right man will come at last; you will in the course of the next two or three years meet with somebody more generally unexceptionable than anyone you have yet known, who will love you as warmly as possible, and who will so completely attach you that you will feel you never really loved before."
-Jane Austen

"Darcy had never been so bewitched by any woman as he was by her. He really believed, that were it not for the inferiority of her connections, he should be in some danger."
Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen

"...I'd long ago learned not to be picky in farewells. They weren't guaranteed or promised. You were lucky, more than blessed, if you got a goodbye at all."
The Truth About Forever
by Sarah Dessen

"Adieu to disappointment and spleen. What are men to rocks and mountains?"
Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen

"There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out all fear."
1 John 4:18

"In vain have I 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."
Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen

"Laughter is the joyous universal evergreen of life."
-Abraham Lincoln

"Now be sincere. Did you admire me for my impertience?"
"For the liveliness of your mind, I did."
Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen

"What you would seem to be, be really."
Poor Richard's Almanac
by Ben Franklin

"She followed him with her eyes, envied everyone to whom he spoke, had scarecly patience enough to help anybody to coffee; and then was enraged against herself for being so silly!"
Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen

I cannot make speeches, Emma. If I loved you any less, I might be able to talk about it more."
Emma
by Jane Austen