With Valentine's Day around the corner, there's no better way to celebrate than by tearing up at the magical romantic words spoken by our favorite literary characters, hoping that maybe, just maybe, someday, someone will woo us like Romeo did Juliet.
In the meantime, it can't hurt to dream.
1. "Gone with the Wind" by Margaret Mitchell
"You should be kissed and often, and by someone who knows how."
2. "BrokeBack Mountain" by Annie Proulx
"I wish I knew how to quit you."
3. "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Brontë
"He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same."
4. "In Memoriam A.H.H." by Alfred Lord Tennyson
"'Tis better to have loved and lost, Than never to have loved at all."
5. "Hamlet" by William Shakespeare
"Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love."
6. "Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare
"'My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep; the more I give to thee, The more I have, for both are infinite."
7. "Winnie-the-Pooh" by A.A. Milne
"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."
8. "A Tale of Two Cities" by Charles Dickens
"I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul."
9. "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
"Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own; in pain and in sickness it would still be dear."
10. :The Princess Bride" by William Goldman
"Do I love you? My god, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches."
11. "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins
"You're my whole life. I would never be happy again."
12. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
"He looked at her the way all women want to be looked at by a man."
13. The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks
"I've loved another with all my heart and soul; and to me, that has always been enough."
14. "Les Miserables" by Victor Hugo
"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."