"What she had realized was that love was that moment when your heart was about to burst."
- Stieg Larsson
"Lovers alone wear sunlight."
- E.E. Cummings
"Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches."
- William Goldman
"Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear."
- Charlotte Brontë
"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
"Do I love you because you're beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you?"
- Richard Rodgers
"Looking at him now-even if she hadn't been in love with him, that part of her that was her mother's daugher, that loved every beautiful thing for its beauty alone, would still have wanted him."
- Cassandra Clare
"So much of the language of love was like that: you devoured someone with your eyes, you drank in the sight of him, you swallowed him whole. Love was substance, broken down and beating through your blo..."
- Jodi Picoult
"There is nothing on earth more beautiful to me than your smile...no sound sweeter than your laughter...no pleasure greater than holding you in my arms. I realized today that I could never live without..."
- Lisa Kleypas
"He loved her for almost everything she was & she decided that was enough to let him stay for a very long time."
- Brian Andreas