Q is for Quotes

So, it’s not exactly easy to come up with a romantic or sexy blog topic that begins with the letter Q, but I did it! Sort of … I think. Quotes! Romantic Quotes, to be more specific. Here are three of some of my favorite quotes from music, film and literature.

First, my most favorite movie quote of all time comes from Steel Magnolias, where Shelby is trying to explain to her mother why she’s trying so hard to have a baby when the doctors have all told her that she shouldn’t for health reasons.

“I would rather have 30 minutes of wonderful, than a lifetime of nothing special!”  ~Shelby (Julia Roberts) to M’Lynn (Sally Field), Steel Magnolias

Next, one of my most favorite quotes from a song. The song is Aerosmith’s ‘Tell Me What It Takes,’ and it’s all about this guy who’s going through a break-up and he’s asking his ex to tell him what it takes to finally be able to let her go. Heartbreaking stuff!

Tell me that your body doesn’t miss my touch
Tell me that my loving’ didn’t mean that much
Tell me you ain’t dyin’ when you’re cryin’ for me!
~Tell Me What It Takes by Aerosmith

  

And finally, my favorite Shaksespearean sonnet, where the mere thought of the woman he loves brings him out of his melancholy and lifts his spirits.

When in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes

I all alone beweep my outcast state,

And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries,

And look upon myself, and curse my fate,

Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,

Featured like him, like him with friends possessed,

Desiring this man’s art, and that man’s scope,

With what I most enjoy contented least;

Yet in these thoughts my self almost despising,

Haply I think on thee, and then my state,

Like to the lark at break of day arising

From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven’s gate;

    For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings

    That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

~Shakespeare, Sonnet 29