Perhaps it is because I’ve been in the throes of romance for the past 10 months, a relationship that keeps getting better and better, but I’ve been struggling to find words to describe or express my feelings to my beloved. That is why I set out to find some well-crafted quotes on romance, quotes new to me. I found some that are most excellent:

“Romance is thinking about your significant other, when you are supposed to be thinking about something else.”
― Nicholas Sparks

“A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust: First Part

“The very essence of romance is uncertainty.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays

“When love is not madness it is not love.”
― Pedro Calderón de la Barca

“Every great love starts with a great story…”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

“I knew, in the silence that followed, that anything could happen here. It might be too late: again, I might have missed my chance. But I would at least know I tried, that I took my heart and extended my hand, whatever the outcome.
“Okay,” he said. He took a breath. “What would you do, if you could do anything?”
I took a step toward him, closing the space between us. “This,” I said. And then I kissed him.”
― Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever

“And he took her in his arms and kissed her under the sunlit sky, and he cared not that they stood high upon the walls in the sight of many.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.”
― Albert Camus, The Fall

“I’m not sentimental–I’m as romantic as you are. The idea, you know,
is that the sentimental person thinks things will last–the romantic
person has a desperate confidence that they won’t.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

“You’re dangerous,” he says.
“Why?”
“Because you make me believe in the impossible”
― Simone Elkeles, Rules of Attraction

“The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.”
― Jane Austen, Love and Friendship

“Come sleep with me: We won’t make Love,Love will make us.”
― Julio Cortázar

“Sometimes you wake up from a dream. Sometimes you wake up in a dream. And sometimes, every once in a while, you wake up in someone else’s dream. ”
― Richelle Mead, Succubus Blues

“When it comes to men who are romantically interested in you, it’s really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

“I honestly have no idea how to live without you.”
― Stephenie Meyer, New Moon

“Love is a luxury.”
“No. Love is an element.”
An element. Like air to breathe, earth to stand on.”
― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone

“Only love of a good woman will make a man question every choice, every action. Only love makes a warrior hesitate for fear that his lady will find him cruel. Only love makes a man both the best he will ever be, and the weakest. Sometimes all in the same moment. -Wicked ”
― Laurell K. Hamilton

“You don’t take away my choices. You are my choice.”
― Colleen Houck

“So I placed my heart under lock and key
To take some time, and take care of me
But I turn around and you’re standing here”
― Deborah Cox

“Live like you were dying, Love because you are.”
― Mark Green

“But love, I’ve come to understand, is more than three words mumbled before bedtime. Love is sustained by action, a pattern of devotion in the things we do for each other every day.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Wedding