Will you be my Valentine? 💖 Celebrate February 14, Valentine’s Day, with these 10 quotes from literature about love, romance, and relationships.

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

2. “If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.”—Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

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

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

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

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

7. “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

8. “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?

9. “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

10. “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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