"A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment."
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"I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love."
"Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination."
"So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you."
"Oh, I wouldn't mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you."
"I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of."
"What light through yonder window breaks?"
"You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics."
"Have you ever lost yourself in a kiss? I mean pure psychedelic inebriation. Not just lustful petting but transcendental metamorphosis when you became aware that the greatness of this being was breathing into you. Licking the sides and corners of your mouth, like sealing a thousand fleshy envelopes filled with the essence of your passionate being and then opened by the same mouth and delivered back to you, over and over again - the first kiss of the rest of your life."
"Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things."
"A kiss is a lovely trick to stop speech."
"Love, and you shall be loved."
"I'm in love with you," he said quietly. "Augustus," I said. "I am," he said. He was staring at me, and I could see the corners of his eyes crinkling. "I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I'm in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we're all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we'll ever have, and I am in love with you."
"Tell me how you read and I'll tell you who you are."
"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."
"This is the true measure of love, When we believe that we alone can love, That no one could ever have loved so before us, And that no one will ever love in the same way after us."
"The real lover is the man who can thrill you just by touching your head or smiling into your eyes - or just by staring into space."
"You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you. -Mr. Darcy"
"I have so much of you in my heart."
"You are like nobody since I love you."