“If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.”—Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility. Romantics and book lovers will love these 10 romantic quotes from literature.

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

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“The very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.”—Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

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“Romance takes place in the middle distance. Romance is looking in at yourself through a window clouded with dew. Romance means leaving things out: where life grunts and shuffles, romance only sighs.”―Margaret Atwood

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“In our time together, you claimed a special place in my heart, one I’ll carry with me forever and that no one can ever replace.”—Nicholas Sparks, Dear John

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“I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.”—Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

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“Relationships are all about trust and equality. If one person shares, then the other person should share, too.”—Sophie Kinsella, Can You Keep a Secret?

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“When you love something it loves you back in whatever way it has to love.”—John Knowles, A Separate Peace

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“It’s enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.”—Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

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9.

“My heart only ever had one thought, one want. One need. Despite all, in spite of all…All my heart has ever wanted is you.”—Stephanie Laurens, The Edge of Desire

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10.

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

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