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Top Ten Love Lines From Literature for YourValentine When it comes to Valentines Day, do you find yourself mulling over the remaining dozen or so cards left at the drugstore, trying to decide whether the kitten with the googly-eyes exclaiming Youre purrrrrrrrrrrrrrfect! is any better or worse than the over-sized card with a creepily happy train chugging out the words, I chooo-choo-choose YOU! ? Well, dont despair. Here are ten relationship-saving sentiments for you to borrow. Find a nice, blank card, write one of these lines inside, and buy the book that it came from. Wrap it up, and, using your best toe-in-the-sand look, say, Honey, I thought of you the second I read this. Hey, come on its sort of true 1. â€Å"I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.† ― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets 2. â€Å"To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.† ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves 3. â€Å"Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.† ― Rainer Maria Rilke 4. â€Å"I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart)I am never without it (anywhere I go you go,my dear; and whatever is done by only me is your doing,my darling) I fear no fate (for you are my fate,my sweet)I want no world (for beautiful you are my world,my true) and its you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you here is the deepest secret nobody knows (here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide) and this is the wonder thats keeping the stars apart I carry your heart (I carry it in my heart)† ― E.E. Cummings 5. â€Å"If there is no love in the world, we will make a new world, and we will give it walls, and we will furnish it with soft, red interiors, from the inside out, and give it a knocker that resonates like a diamond falling to a jewellers felt so that we should never hear it. ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated 6.   â€Å"The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only.† ― Victor Hugo,   Les Misà ©rables 7. â€Å"Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just wont adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is to sign on as its accomplice. Instead of vowing to honor and obey, maybe we should swear to aid and abet. That would mean that security is out of the question. The words make and stay become inappropriate. My love for you has no strings attached. I love you for free.† ― Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker 8. â€Å"I love you, Buttercup said. I know this must come as something of a surprise to you, since all Ive ever done is scorn you and degrade you and taunt you, but I have loved you for several hours now, and every second, more. I thought an hour ago that I loved you more than any woman has ever loved a man, but a half hour after that I knew that what I felt before was nothing compared to what I felt then. But ten minutes after that, I understood that my previous love was a puddle compared to the high seas before a storm. Your eyes are like that, did you know? Well they are. How many minutes ago was I? Twenty? Had I brought my feelings up to then? It doesnt matter. ― William Goldman, The Princess Bride 9.   â€Å"I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And its these things Id believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasnt all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything.† ― F. Scott Fitzgerald 10.   â€Å"Maybeyoull fall in love with me all over again. Hell, I said, I love you enough now. What do you want to do? Ruin me? Yes. I want to ruin you. Good, I said. Thats what I want too.† ― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms