Best Love Story Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“It's the in-between, the sustenance, not just the gears and bolts that make a human. When you forget to find out how the person was built—the oil, chemistry, and the craft—you miss all the beauty.”

“She: So where do we go from here?”

“We thought we were dying… but love had other plans.”

“There is nothing right or wrong in love. Where there is love, then there is nothing but only love.”

“For [erotically intelligent couples], love is a vessel that contains both security and adventure, and commitment offers one of the great luxuries of life: time. Marriage is not the end of romance, it is the beginning. They know that they have years in which to deepen their connection, to experiment, to regress, and even to fail. They see their relationship as something alive and ongoing, not a fait accompli. It’s a story that they are writing together, one with many chapters, and neither partner knows how it will end. There’s always a place they haven’t gone yet, always something about the other still to be discovered.”

“Alix’s stomach contracted. The Escort Battalion was normally held in reserve until the crucial moment in any battle, so she should have expected this; but the report from Prozor suggested this would be a more desperate and dangerous fight than any they had experienced. Nikola had proved himself a good commander, in spite of his disability, but his luck might run out at any time – and where Nikola went, Dragomir went too.”

“I'd read enough love stories to know the beginning of one when I saw it.”

“It's a great tale, one of a boy and a girl from opposite worlds who overcame immense hardship to built a life together.”

“You speak as if we have forever”

“Breathe easy, Darling”

“I'm alright," he replied with a beautiful smile that melted my soul. "I'm happy to be with you, Bianca.”

“Even the smallest shift in perspective can bring about the greatest healing.”

“What matters most, is not how my end happens, or if it happens now. What I care about in this instant, is that she knows how much I love her—that I lived long enough to have her love me back.”

“I was such a messed up person and he was still holding on.”

“I will not tell you our love story, because—like all real love stories—it will die with us, as it should.”

“Real love is not finding someone who has everything.”

“But I was young”

“It was not your love that lacked intensity, it was the person that lacked quality.”

“Love was feeling the person everywhere, under your skin, in every strand of your hair, in your heart, in your bones, in the tone of your voice when you said their name. Love wasn’t always about being with the person, it was feeling that your world was better just because they lived. Even if you weren’t ever going to be together, he was the air you breathed, invisible but everywhere.”

“He couldn’t look back at the children. He couldn’t think of it. All he could do was watch the eyes of his wife.”

“... you’ll have to fall in love at least once in your life, or Paris has failed to rub off on you.”

“If someday you should ever think of me and miss me, know in your heart that I'd want you to find me once again. No matter how distant in time or space... FIND ME.”

“Then, by your definition... I'm in love with you.”

“The Earth must have done some noble work; that is why you were born here and not in the ocean among the fishes and not in the sky among the birds.”

“Your poetry--it doesn't deserve to be locked away, hidden from the rest of the world. And neither do you.”

“I wish I knew how to get you back. And apparently fate won't let me give up”

“And I imagined this, his hug, his body, him, being my safe-heaven. My normal. My bad days, my good days. My every day...”

“Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in.-Leonard Cohen”

“I hope you outlive me so I never have to know what life is like without you.”

“I wonder if you know how special you are; I wonder if you know how precious you are; I wonder if you know how lucky I am to have you in my life; I love you so much.”

“When it comes to love, Princess, rules blur, and traditions fade,”

“I am sure that God has given all his time in making you, the remaining human race has been created in haste.”

“I loved being near you. Even though I felt that bubble you had around you, even though I never quite knew what you were thinking, damn, did I love being near you. Somehow, I knew you would rip me apart and drown me. Somehow, I knew we wouldn’t last. It didn’t matter. You were my sun. I loved feeling you upon me, around me, between me. Even though you could only love me from a distance, I didn’t care. I never felt more warmth inside of me than when you were against me.”

“The soul, they say, is divine and the flesh is iniquity. But I am a musician and I ask this - without the wood and the strings of the violin, where would the sonata find form?”

“I didn't want to be the woman who gave herself over willingly to the first man to notice her. I didn't want to be the stupid girl in every novel who loved without question and entered relationships that didn't make sense.”

“Romance for me is”

“Dear Judy Blume, why didn’t you write a book about how to survive talking to your centuries-old, super-duper experienced, smoking-hot soul mate about sex for the first time ever? That book would have been extremely helpful in preparing me for this incredibly awkward situation.”

“Then his beautiful lips touched hers. A fluttering of wings, a cry of angels, a single beat of two hearts.”

“And my heart melts with the sting of a fiery burn in the way only Fiona can make it.”

“We’re having a sleepover. We’re going to do this all night, and I’m going to cuddle you like a motherfucker after finishing sexing every last orgasm out of you.”

“You try spending six months sitting at somebody's bedside, waiting for them to die and then tell me that the happy-ending love story isn't one of God's good gifts.”

“I have a question for you. "If your shadow is the second most beautiful thing in the world, which is the first?".”

“It was juvenile, he knew, this need to assign blame, but everyone had a right to childish emotions from time to time, didn't they?”

“When Shaundelle turned and looked back at Nonie she had her lips pursed. "The man say wear whatever you want. Wear black, girl. It's slimmin', not that you need any slimmin' with your skinny self, but it makes me look like I've been dietin' for a week. I don't want to be the only one wearin' black, so wear black, okay?”

“She's my sun and I'm her moon connected by an invisible thread, bound but free.”

“While she could hardly fathom what had just happened to her that night, she reached some conclusions before she fell asleep, certain things now made perfect sense; Moon River didn’t sound so syrupy, mistletoe wasn’t such a bad idea, and perhaps dating was not such a frivolous waste of time after all.”

“I think of you only twice a day - when I am alone and when I am with someone else.”

“I held my breath and closed my eyes, just listening to the wordless song of falling.”

“I always have many roads to travel, but I take the one which leads to you.”

“the unexpected moment [is] always sweeter.”

“After listening and getting to know more about you. Also, feeling a deep connection between us that goes beyond physical attraction. I'm beginning to feel for, so much more than the friendship that I waited to grow with you. I'm not going to try and rush things. However, I don't want to wait until it's to late.”

“He'd died. Plain and simple. And it pissed him off. Left him frustrated and disappointed. Where had all , the guardian angel crap they'd fed him in catechism gone to? He'd seen no angels, seraphim, archangels or pearly gates. No one to show him the ropes now that he was dead. What the hell was he supposed to do?”

“Although this scouting gig sounded like a financial hit, it made Nonie extremely nervous. She feared someone slip--that someone being Buggy--and others would find out Nonie's secret. And if the wrong person caught wind that she could see and speak to the dead, word would spread through Clay Point like ants at a picnic.”

“Among my stillness was a pounding heart.”

“... it’s a blessed thing to love and feel loved in return.”

“We had old architects and were working with what we had on hand. You’ve hired this new, young architect now, and, Pericles, I’m going to build you a statue of Athena—all gold and ivory, think of that, Pericles—and taller than our city walls.” Pericles raised his eyes toward the birds.”

“It had happened. Thucydides, his archrival, was a general. Glaucon, from his own tribe, was a general. And Pericles was no longer a general. He was just a citizen with one vote. And an idea”

“It won't hurt until you feel it.”

“The Talmud states, "Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world's grief. Do justly now, love mercy now, walk humbly now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it.”

“God first appeared on the scene of human history in the role of a matchmaker. What a profound and exciting revelation!”

“I decided I would fill the emptiness in me with God and with paint.”

“Marriage is not kick-boxing, it's salsa dancing.”

“Whatever I learned,”

“If only you would realize some day, how much have you hurt me,”