Valentine’s Day 2017: Express yourself with these 20 love quotes from literature

The charm of using your original quotes is unbeatable, but a bit of literary inspiration doesn't hurt. After all, what are words for?

By: Zainab Ahmed |
February 14, 2017 11:26 am

Valentine’s Day is here and you just can’t ignore how much this day holds importance in everyone’s lives. If you have always been shy in confessing your love for someone, this is the day you need to let your guards off and lay all your cards on the table.

In an age of dating app like Tinder, when finding love is as easy as swiping right, the love letters and love poems are losing their essence. However, there is no better way to woo your partner with the magic of words because no matter where we go in life, nothing can beat the memory of how someone made you feel through their words. and can’t find the words of our own, then worry not. After all, what is literature all about, if not love?

And don’t worry if you can’t find the words of our own. After all, what is literature all about, if not love? Though the charm of using your original quotes is unbeatable, a bit of inspiration never hurts.

So, here are top 20 quotes from the masters of literature that you can use this Valentine’s Day and express your love to your partner:

Erich Segal

Emily Bronte

Cummings

“He stepped down, trying not to look long at her as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.”
— Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy

“You have bewitched me body and soul. And I love…I love…I love you.”
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen

“I’ll get you, Jack, in another lifetime…And you’ll be very happy.”
Big Sur, Jack Kerouac

Pablo Neruda

Neil Gaiman

John Green

“I will have poetry in my life. And adventure. And love. Love above all.”
Shakespeare in Love: A Screenplay, Marc Norman

“Sometimes I ask myself what I would be if Jenny were alive.
And then I answer: I would also be alive.”
Oliver’s Story, Erich Segal

“To be together is for us to be at once as free as in solitude, as gay as in company.”
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte

Khalid Hosseini

John Knowles

JK Rowling

“The way her body existed only where he touched her. The rest of her was smoke.” (Poster)

—The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy

“The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that strangers didn’t stop each other on the street to say I love you.”
Everything Is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer

“If I were to live a thousand years, I would belong to you for all of them. If we were to live a thousand lives, I would want to make you mine in each one.”
The Evolution of Mara Dyer, Michelle Hodkin

Mark Twain

Oscar Wilde