1. "In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person."
--Margaret Anderson
2. Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being "in love" which any of us can convince ourselves we are.
Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Your mother and I had it, we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossom had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two.
- Captain Corelli's Mandolin
3. "A kiss is a lovely trick, designed by nature, to stop words when speech becomes superfluous."
--Ingrid Bergmen
4. "Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life."
--Aphra Behn
5. In my wildest dreams, you always play the hero. In my darkest hour of night, you rescue me, you save my life."
--Bliss and Cerney
6. "You're nothing short of my everything."
--Ralph Block
7. "What I do and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapes..."
--Elizabeth Barret Browning
8. "I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach..."
--Elizabeth Barrett Browning
9. "Thou art to me a delicious torment."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
10. "Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own."
--Robert Heinlein
11. "... See there's this place in me where your fingerprints still rest, your kisses still linger, and your whispers softly echo. It's the place where a part of you will forever be a part of me."
--Gretchen Kemp
12. "When you came, you were like red wine and honey, and the taste of you burnt my mouth with its sweetness."
--Amy Lowell
13. "Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition."
--Alexander Smith
14. "I miss you even more than I could have believed; and I was prepared to miss you a good deal."
--Vita Sackville-West
My favorites are 2 and 14, I am no so sure about 5 and 6. Which ones are your favorites and which ones are you not so sure of? Enquiring minds want to know. :)