compliled by contributing editor Kate Stringer
Whether your heart becomes two sizes too big or too small on February 14, authors of the world have thoughts on love that will resonate with you. Here are 20 quotes about love for both the believers and detractors of Valentine’s Day.
Love quotes for the believers
“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” – Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
“I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.” – The Return of the King, J.R.R. Tolkien
“She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It’s good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.” -Beloved, Toni Morrison
“We accept the love we think we deserve.” – The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky
“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
“Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.” -Hamlet, William Shakespeare
“Our relationship wasn’t the sun, the moon, the stars, but it wasn’t bullshit, either.” – This Is How You Lose Her, Junot Díaz
“Love is fragile and we’re not always the best caretakers. Even the best of us make mistakes. We just muddle through and do the best we can to hope this fragile thing survives by all odds.” – Last Song Nicholas Sparks,
“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.” – The Fault in Our Stars, John Green
“Dumbledore watched her fly away, and as her silvery glow faded he turned back to Snape, and his eyes were full of tears.
“After all this time?”
“Always,” said Snape.” – Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, JK Rowling
Love quotes for the detractors
“The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you.” – The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
“Could there be finer symptoms? Is not general incivility the very essence of love?” -Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen,
“Love is so short, forgetting is so long.” – Love,:Ten Poems, Pablo Neruda
“Could I love less, I should be happier now.” – Festus, Philip James Bailey
“One’s first love is always perfect until one meets one’s second love.” -The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy, Elizabeth Aston
“No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.” – The Complete Neurotic’s Notebook, Mignon McLaughlin
“Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage.” – The Unabridged Devil’s Dictionary, Ambrose Bierce
“…if truth were everywhere to be shown, a scarlet letter would blaze forth on many a bosom…” – The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
“Hearts will never be practical until they are made unbreakable.” – The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum
“One should always be in love. This is the reason why one should never marry.” – A Woman of No Importance, Oscar Wilde