Literary Love Quotes - Happy Valentines Day!

"Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back." -John Green

Hey there my literary lovers. Sara here brining you a special valentines day post. 

I think it is safe to say over my harrowing 24 years I have had my ups and downs in the real-life relationship run, however one valentine that has always been there for me are my books. They don't ever miss my birthday, get mad when I wake them up at 3.am unable to sleep, and never think that I look fat in these jeans.  Yes I think it is safe to say that the great authors through out time are the only real valentine I could ever hope to have.

To celebrate my long time love, I thought I would share some of the passages through out all of the greatest works that have made my heart swoon over and over again. Some are uplifting, some are heartbreaking, but found in these quotes are just some of the emotions and sentiments I think we all hope to feel at some point or other. I know I do.

Oh god it's wonderful

to get out of bed

and drink too much coffee

and smoke too many cigarettes

and love you so much

-Frank O'hara

"We'd been apart so long--I'd been dead so long," she said in English. "I thought surely you'd built a new life, with no room in it for me. I'd hoped that." 
"My life is nothing but room for you." I said. "It could never be filled by anyone but you."  - Kurt Vonnegut (Mother Night)

So dear I love him that with him all deaths/ I could endure, without him live no life." John Milton, Paradise Lost

"I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, 
in secret, between the shadow and the soul." 
— Pablo Neruda

"It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight." 
— Vladimir Nabokov 

"Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love." 
— Neil Gaiman 

"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 jeweller's felt so that we should never hear it. Love me, because love doesn't exist, and I have tried everything that does." 
— Jonathan Safran Foer 

"Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who's in love gets sad when they think of their lover. It's like stepping back inside a room you have fond memories of, one you haven't seen in a long time." 
— Haruki Murakami

Maybe...you'll 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. "That's what I want too." 
— Ernest Hemingway 

Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love." 
— J.K. Rowling 

As she stared at the ceiling the first night
her body softly falling back into itself,
she thought of how we dream of journeying
on spaceships to other universes, other worlds,
but really, for the forever,
we’re stuck here on the dirt and
the only time we travel anywhere truly unknowable
is when we slip into the skin of another,
venturing into their mysteries,
always hoping for 
a safe landing. 

-Toby Barlow / Sharp Teeth

So there we are my darlings. Hope you enjoyed some of my favorite passages. Please share some of your own in the comments.