Some characters and love stories live in the book, but the words they leave with us often stay with us forever. From sweeping classics to modern tear-jerkers, here we’ve curated 60 romantic book quotes that will steal our hearts and capture the passion, magic, and bittersweet ache of love.
Let’s explore it!
Classic Romance Quotes
“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” – Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
“You have bewitched me, body and soul.” – Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
“I am half agony, half hope.” – Jane Austen, Persuasion
“If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.” – Jane Austen, Emma
“I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul.” – Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
“My affections and wishes are unchanged, but one word from you will silence me forever.” – Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
“I am yours, don’t give myself back to me.” – Rumi
“You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought.” – Arthur Conan Doyle, The White Company
“We loved with a love that was more than love.” – Edgar Allan Poe
“To love or have loved, that is enough.” – Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
“You are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.” – E.E. 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.” – Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
“I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts… but I’ve loved another with all my heart and soul.” – Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
“If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.” – Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
“We are all fools in love.” – Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Modern Romance Quotes
“I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.” – John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
“You have me. Until every last star in the galaxy dies, you have me.” – Amie Kaufman, Illuminae
“I knew the second I met you that there was something about you I needed.” – Jamie McGuire, Beautiful Disaster
“You’re my favorite notification.” – Unknown
“And suddenly all the love songs were about you.” – Unknown
“It’s you. It’s always been you.” – Colleen Hoover
“Sometimes you meet someone, and it’s so clear that the two of you, on some level, belong together.” – Unknown
“You feel like home.” – Unknown
“I never want to stop making memories with you.” – Pierre Jeanty
“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.” – Audrey Hepburn
“In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours.” – Maya Angelou
“You are my today and all of my tomorrows.” – Leo Christopher
“If forever exists, please let it be with you.” – Unknown
“You’re the kind of person I want to be with when I want to be alone.” – Unknown
“And when I look at you, I can feel it. I look at you, and I’m home.” – Finding Nemo
Poetic & Soulful Romance Quotes
“I am yours, don’t give myself back to me.” – Rumi
“In your light, I learn how to love.” – Rumi
“I crave a love so deep the ocean would be jealous.” – Unknown
“I would rather spend one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
“I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love.” – William Blake
“I wish I could turn back the clock. I’d find you sooner and love you longer.” – Unknown
“You are the poem I never knew how to write.” – Atticus
“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul.” – Pablo Neruda
“When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.” – Arrigo Boito
“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.” – Pablo Neruda
“If I were to live a thousand years, I would belong to you for all of them.” – Unknown
“And in her smile, I see something more beautiful than the stars.” – Beth Revis
“You make my heart feel like it’s summer when it’s winter.” – Unknown
“It was always you.” – Unknown
“I could start fires with what I feel for you.” – David Ramirez
Deep & Forever Love Quotes
“Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.” – Robert Browning
“I would find you in any lifetime.” – Kiersten White
“I want to be with you until my last page.” – A.R. Asher
“I loved you yesterday, I love you still, I always have, I always will.” – Elaine Davis
“I am catastrophically in love with you.” – Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess
“Every love story is beautiful, but ours is my favorite.” – Unknown
“You’re my end and my beginning.” – John Legend
“I want all of you, forever, you and me, every day.” – Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
“You’re the closest to heaven that I’ll ever be.” – Goo Goo Dolls
“My heart is, and always will be, yours.” – Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
“Our love is like the wind. I can’t see it, but I can feel it.” – Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember
“You’re my favorite place to go when my mind searches for peace.” – Unknown
“You are my blue crayon, the one I never have enough of, the one I use to color my sky.” – Unknown
“You’re my once in a lifetime.” – Unknown
“Forever is a long time, but I wouldn’t mind spending it by your side.” – Unknown
Final Words!
That’s the wrap-up of our collection of 60 Romantic Book Quotes That Will Steal Your Heart. Sometimes all we need are words and lines that can express our deepest feelings.
Don’t forget to pick a line that sees your love and share it with someone you care about.
