"And so the lion fell in love with the lamb...," He murmured.
"What a stupid lamb, " I sighed.
"What a sick, masochistic lion."
— Stephenie Meyer

"A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment."
— Jane Austen

"For almost ninety years I've walked among my kind, and yours....all the time thinking I was complete in myself, not realizing what I was seeking. And not finding anything, because you weren't alive yet." - Edward"
— Stephenie Meyer (Twilight)

"You don't believe me, do you?" he whispered, his face paler than his usual pale-I could see that even in the dim light. "Why can you believe the lie, but not the truth?" "It never made sense for you to love me," I explained, my voice breaking twice. "I always knew that." His eyes narrowed, his jaw tightened. "I'll prove you're awake," he promised." - Edward Cullen and Bella Swan"
— Stephenie Meyer (New Moon)

"All I've ever wanted was to be near you."
— Shannon Hale (Enna Burning)

"I know I would crumble if I lost you."
— Shannon Hale (Enna Burning)

"She wants to know if we're secretly dating. And she wants to know how you feel about me, he finally said.
Hmmm. He paused to catch a stray lock of hair that was escaping the twist on my neck and wound it back in place. My hear spluttered hyperactively. I suppose you could say yes to the first...if you don't mind- it's easier than any other explanation. I don't mind I said in a faint voice.
And as for the other question...well I'll be listening to hear the answer to that one myself.
One side of his mouth pulled up into my favorite uneven smile. I couldn't catch my breath soon enough to respond to that remark."
— Stephenie Meyer (Twilight)

"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a thirty-something woman in possession of a satisfying career and fabulous hairdo must be in want of very little"
— Shannon Hale (Austenland)

"I love you, in my mind where my thoughts reside, in my heart where my emotions live, and in my soul where my dreams are born. I love you."
— Dee Henderson (The Healer)

"What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if,when you awoke,you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?"
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

""Jared is my past , another life. You are my present."
He was quiet for a moment. When he spoke again, his voice was rough with emotion. "And your future, if you want that."
"Yes Please""
— Stephenie Meyer (The Host)

"When two hearts race, both win."
— Dove chocolate wrapper

"Death that hath sucked the honey from thy breath hath had no power yet upon thy beauty.
Romeo and Juliet"
— William Shakespeare

"Scarlett, I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken...I'm too old to believe in such sentimentalities as clean slates and starting all over...I couldn't live with you and lie to you and I certainly couldn't lie to myself. I can't even lie to you now. I wish I could care what you do or where you go, but I can't." He drew a short breath and said lightly but softly: "My dear, I don't give a damn."
— Margaret Mitchell (Gone With The Wind)

"Girl lithe and tawny, the sun that forms
the fruits, that plumps the grains, that curls seaweeds
filled your body with joy, and your luminous eyes
and your mouth that has the smile of the water.

A black yearning sun is braided into the strands
of your black mane, when you stretch your arms.
You play with the sun as with a little brook
and it leaves two dark pools in your eyes."
— Pablo Neruda

"Your name is a golden bell hung in my heart. I would break my body to pieces, to call you once by your name."
— Peter S. Beagle (The Last Unicorn)

"I profess not to know how women's hearts are wooed and won. To me they have always been matters of riddle and admiration."
— Washington Irving (The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow)

""And you're not leaving," she said. "Promise me."

It was as if she had asked him to promise to keep breathing, to notice sunshine, to permit the spinning of the earth. What choice did he have? Even if he left her, she would be camped in his heart, an insistent and willful presence. She would match her strides to his on any journey he ever took; she would lie beside him on any bed.

"Amalie, he said, "that's the easiest promise I've ever had to make.""
— Sharon Shinn (Reader and Raelynx)

"so the lion fell in love with the lamb.... what a stupid lamb ...... what a sick masochistic lion"
— stephanie meyer i think

"Truth to tell, the longer I live, the more I'm tempted to think that the only moderately worthwhile people in the world are you and I."
— Choderlos de Laclos (Les Liaisons Dangereuses)

""I love you, not only for what you are, But for what I am when I am with you."
"
— Roy Croft

"I still don't understand anything- exept that somehow I know that You are love. And that in my heart has been so great a love for Christy as I did not know could exist on this earth. You, God, must be responsible. You must have put it there. So what do I do with it now? "
— Catherine Marshall (Christy)

"'Curious,' the Prince continued, after a deep silence, 'is it possible never to have known something, never to have missed it in its absence -- and a few moments later to live in and for that single experience alone? Can a single moment make a man so different from himself? It would be just as impossible for me to return to the joys and wishes of yesterday morning as it would for me to return to the games of childhood, now that I have seen that object, now that her image dwells here -- and I have this living, overpowering feeling within me: from now on you can love nothing other than her, and in this world nothing else will ever have any effect on you."
— Friedrich von Schiller

"Occasionally she glanced at him, asking with her glance, 'Is this what I think?' "I understand,' she said, blushing. "What is this word?' he said, pointing to the "n' that signified the word "never." .... She wrote: t, I, c,g,n,o,a."
— Leo Tolstoy

"I love you because your stubborn and willfull and independent, but of course its exactly those qualities that are getting in the way of me sweeping you off your feet with my incredible charm.
"
— Katherine Applegate (Tan Lines)

"In light of the day, dearest, this I leave for you.

as I said last year...it's not about cheap candies and roses or jewelry and cards with fancy cursive dashed with glitter and garish poems.

you love them, let them know.

somewhere the message was misconstrued...

happy valentine's."
— trustahope@deviantart.com

"I turned away to the left, letting my hair fall to mask my face and conceal my impulsive heated pink cheekbones and giddy smile. Darn those girly emotions and mannerisms.
"
— Jenna Edr

""I turned away to the left, letting my hair fall to mask my face and conceal my impulsive heated pink cheekbones and giddy smile. Darn those girly emotions and mannerisms."
"
— Jenna Edra

"Dancing Towards Bethlehem

If there is only enough time in the final
minutes of the 20th century for one last dance
I would like to be dancing it slowly with you,
say, in the ballroom of a seaside hotel.
My palm would press into the small of your back

as the past hundred years collapsed into a pile
of mirrors or buttons or frivolous shoes,
just as the floor of the 19th century gave way
and disappeared in a red cloud of brick dust.

There will be no time to order another drink
or worry about what was never said,
not with the orchestra sliding into the sea
and all our attention devoted to humming
whatever it was they were playing. "
— Billy Collins

""And so the lion fell in love with the lamb""
— Edward Cullen, Twilight

"Un soir qu'ils étaient couchés l'un près de l'autre, comme elle lui demandait d'inventer un poème qui commencerait par je connais un beau pays, il s'exécuta sur-le-champ. Je connais un beau pays Il est de l'or et d'églantine Tout le monde s'y sourit Ah quelle aventure fine Les tigres y sont poltrons Les agneaux ont fière mine À tous les vieux vagabonds Ariane donne des tartines. Alors, elle lui baisa le la main, et il eut honte de cette admiration."
— Albert Cohen (Belle Du Seigneur)

"She moves me not, or not removes at least affection's edge in me."
— Shakespeare: The Taming of the Shrew

"One of the first Europeans to systematically study the geography of Greenland's ice was a teenager from Denmark named Peter Freuchen. At 18, he was a bright, competent medical student at the University of Copenhagen. Freuchen had grown up in a coastal village, his muscles hardened and hands callused from occasional shipboard jobs. Tall, broad-shouldered, and well-mannered, he was popular with his professors and their daughters. There was a brooding, distant quality to the young man's face befitting his romantic attachment to the sea. In his spare time he could be found listening to sailors' tales at the docks or sailing alone in the small boat he had owned since he was eight, eyes scanning the horizon."
— Michael Ray Taylor (Caves: Exploring Hidden Realms)