Monday 31 August 2020

Non-Sappy Romantic Quotes From Literature

A good old-fashioned romance is sometimes considered cheesy, so if you are looking for romance which is not so sappy, then you will love these words which will make you warm and fuzzy inside.

1. “Remember, we're madly in love, so it's all right to kiss me anytime you feel like it.”

— Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

2. “When you love something it loves you back in whatever way it has to love.”

— John Knowles, A Separate Peace

3. “In life there are two things which are dependable. The pleasures of the flesh and the pleasures of literature.”

— Sei Shōnagon, The Pillow Book

4. “You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged, but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever.”

— Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

5. “When choosing sexual partners, remember: Talent is not sexually transmittable.”

— Tina Fey, Bossypants

6. “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.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated

7. “His examination revealed that he had no fever, no pain anywhere, and that his only concrete feeling was an urgent desire to die. All that was needed was shrewd questioning … to conclude once again that the symptoms of love were the same as those of cholera.”

— Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

8. “I sometimes have a queer feeling with regard to you — especially when you are near me, as now.”

— Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre

9. "If I loved you less I might be able to talk about it more."

— Jane Austen, Emma

10. “Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”

— Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones

11. “To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.”

— Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband

12. “Brevity is the soul of lingerie.”

— Dorothy Parker, While Rome Burns

13. “I don't want to hear about the endless struggles to keep sex exciting, or the work it takes to plan a date night. I want to hear that you guys watch every episode of The Bachelorette together in secret shame, or that one got the other hooked on Breaking Bad and if either watches it without the other, they're dead meat. I want to see you guys high-five each other like teammates on a recreational softball team you both do for fun.”

— Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

14. “This was love: a string of coincidences that gathered significance and became miracles.”

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun

15. “Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby — awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess.”

— Lemony Snicket, Horseradish

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