Valentine’s Day is the perfect time to celebrate love with those who mean the most to us. What better way to express those feelings than with beautiful words from some of the most beloved books? Whether you’re writing a love letter, adding a sentimental touch to a gift, or simply looking to tell someone how much they mean to you, these 60 romantic quotes from books are perfect for your Valentine’s Day.
Classic Romance & Literary Love Letters
Classics are the eternal letters of timeless love. The epic love story never dies with the time. Here are some of my favorite ones to write in a handwritten letter with the gift.
- “I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I’ve led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I’ve loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough.”
— Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook - “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 - “I have crossed oceans of time to find you.”
— Bram Stoker, Dracula - “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.”
— Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice - “True love cannot be found where it does not exist, nor can it be denied where it does.”
— Torquato Tasso - “I would rather die tomorrow than live a hundred years without knowing you.”
— Unknown, A Walk to Remember - “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: I should not seem a part of it. My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nelly, I am Heathcliff—he’s always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being.” – Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
- “You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope.”-Persuasion by Jane Austen
- “I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul.”
— A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens - “If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.”
— Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami - “My dearest, loveliest Elizabeth… You have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love… I love… I love you.”
– Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen - “I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.” – The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
- “I cannot let you burn me up, nor can I resist you. No mere human can stand in a fire and not be consumed.”
– The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje - “I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look, or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.”
– Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen - “When you look at me, I feel alive. I don’t need anything else in the world.”
— Lauren Oliver, Delirium - “I have for the first time found what I can truly love—I have found you. 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 centre and spring of life, wraps my existence about you—and, kindling in pure, powerful flame, fuses you and me in one.” – From Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
- “Is it possible for home to be a person and not a place?”
– Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins - “We loved with a love that was more than love.”
– Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe - “My love for you is a journey; starting at forever, and ending at never.”
— Unknown, The Time Traveler’s Wife
Heartfelt and Poetic Quotes
- “I would rather have had one breath of her hair, one kiss of her mouth, one touch of her hand, than eternity without it.”
— City of Angels - “He made her feel like more than the sum of her parts. Like she was something whole, something worth loving. And she wanted to tell him that he was everything good she’d ever done, the reason she could look in the mirror and not flinch, the reason she didn’t feel alone in a crowded room. He was her person, and for the first time in her life, she wasn’t scared to let him know it.” – Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell
- “You made me love you without meaning to. And I don’t know how to stop now.”
— Alone with You in the Ether by Olivie Blake - “I think about you so much it aches. You’re in every breath, every thought.”
— Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson - “Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.”
— Aristotle, The Symposium - “I don’t want you to leave. But I don’t want you to stay, because I want you to choose me.”
— Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson - “I have always loved you. Even before I met you. Even before I knew I could love you.”
— The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid - “I am who I am because of you.”
— Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook - “I think there are only two types of people: people who are meant to be loved, and people who are meant to love.”
— The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid - “I’m not waiting for something. I’m already here, right now. I’m already with you.”
— The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston - “Yours is the light by which my spirit’s born: — you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.”
From i carry your heart with me by E.E. Cummings - “If I could have him like this, then I might want nothing more. Just to hold him, to make him mine in my arms. If it were only this, I’d ask for nothing else. But I knew that this was not enough, not nearly enough. So close, so far away. Why couldn’t he tell what I felt in my soul, for him, for us, for what I couldn’t let myself say aloud? It hurt, but the hurt was better than emptiness. In the hurt, there was a beauty I could not deny.” – Call Me by Your Name by André Aciman
- “I didn’t know love could be so loud, so large, and so filled with space. But with you, it is.”
— The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston - “I want to be the friend you fall hopelessly in love with.”
From Unravel Me by Tahereh Mafi - “In your eyes, I saw everything I was looking for and nothing I feared.”
— Call Me by Your Name by André Aciman - “If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.”
From Emma by Jane Austen - “Even when this world is a forgotten whisper of dust between the stars, I will always love you.”
– Empire of Storms by Sarah J. Maas - “I wanted you more than I wanted anything else. And I wanted you to want me too.”
— Call Me by Your Name by André Aciman - “You are scored on my heart, Clark. You were, from the first day you walked in, with your ridiculous clothes and your bad jokes and your complete inability to ever hide a single thing you felt.” – Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
- “There was something about him that made me feel like I’d known him for years. Like we were both pieces of a puzzle that had somehow found each other.”
— Call Me by Your Name by André Aciman - “Love is a many-splendored thing.”
— Paul Simon, Love in the Time of Cholera - “I wanted to kiss you like it was the first time and the last time. But I could never have enough.”
— Call Me by Your Name by André Aciman - “You’re the one I’ll never forget, the one that made me feel alive.”
— The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid - “When I look at you, I see the rest of my life in front of my eyes.”
— Unknown, Twilight - “It’s easy to love you. What’s hard is letting you love me back.”
— The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston - “If I could have spent a lifetime with you, I would’ve. But I’ll settle for the time I had.”
— Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson - “It feels like we were meant to be here together, in this space, at this time. A moment we’ll never get back.”
— Alone with You in the Ether by Olivie Blake - “I wanted to be the one who made you feel like everything was worth it.”
— The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid - “I would have chosen you. In every lifetime, in every world, in any reality. I would have found you and chosen you every single time. It was always you, even when I didn’t know it was you. My heart recognized you as its own before I did.” – The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
- “You were the first person to make me believe in love again. The first to make me feel like I wasn’t just existing.”
— Call Me by Your Name by André Aciman - “When I’m with you, time stops, and all I can think about is how much I want to be closer to you.”
— Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson
These 50 romantic quotes from books are perfect for expressing the depth of your love this Valentine’s Day. Whether you’re sharing a classic literary line, a deep confession, or something whimsical and sweet, these words can help you convey your feelings in a way that is as timeless as your love.
