Romantic

Romance is the literature of hope. – Damon Suede

When I am with you, the only place I want to be is closer. – Author Unknown

How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said. – Victor Hugo

I can no longer think of anything but you. In spite of myself, my imagination carries me to you. I grasp you, I kiss you, I caress you, a thousand of the most amorous caresses take possession of me. – Honore de Balzac, letter to Evelina Hanska, June 1836

[M]y love for you is deathless, it seems to bind me to you with mighty cables that nothing but Omnipotence could break… – Sullivan Ballou, letter to wife Sarah, 14 July 1861

I wish I had the gift of making rhymes, for methinks there is poetry in my head and heart since I have been in love with you. – Nathaniel Hawthorne, letter to wife Sophia, 5 December 1839

All commands from your lips are sweet…. – Byron Caldwell Smith, letter to Kate Stephens

My heart beats faster as you take my hand, my love grows stronger as you touch my soul. – A.C. Van Cherub, 2009

Two lovers in the rain have no need of an umbrella. – Japanese Proverb

Until then, mio dolce amor, a thousand kisses; but give me none in return, for they set my blood on fire. – Napolean Bonaparte, letter to wife Josephine, December 1795

To lovers, I devise their imaginary world, with whatever they may need, as the stars of the sky, the red, red roses by the wall, the snow of the hawthorn, the sweet strains of music, and aught else they may desire to figure to each other the lastingness and beauty of their love. – Williston Fish, "A Last Will," 1898

So dear I love him, that with him all deaths I could endure, without him live no life. – John Milton

Her lips on his could tell him better than all her stumbling words. – Margaret Mitchell

…I can forget my very existence in a deep kiss of you. – Byron Caldwell Smith, letter to Kate Stephens

Come live in my heart and pay no rent. – Samuel Lover

I but know that I love thee, whatever thou art. – Thomas Moore

I could walk forever and a mile with one beautiful girl. – A.C. Van Cherub, c.1989

How my memory treasures every sweet stray moment of our past â€” handclasp, kiss and heart-beat, the passion of those dear unfathomable eyes, the rustle of garments, the gliding steps and lingering farewells! – Byron Caldwell Smith, letter to Kate Stephens

Lastly, do I vow, that mine eyes desire you above all things. – Catherine of Aragon, 1535

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance. – Oscar Wilde