First some romanticals from Shakespeare:
No sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no sooner sighed but they asked one another the reason; no sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy; and in these degrees have they made a pair of stairs to marriage...
"Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love."
"To be wise and love exceeds man's might." {Probably my favorite!}
And from Jane Austen:
"The idea of Mr. Collins with all his solemn composure, being run away by his feelings, made Elizabeth so near laughing that she could not use the short pause he allowed in any attempt to stop him further, and he continued . . . " {Right, I know. Not really romantic, but giggle worthy!}
"She was of course only too good for him. But as nobody minds having what is too good for them, he was very steadily earnest in pursuit of the blessing." {Mansfield Park}And my final one, which is also one of my favorites:
"The mind is its own place, and in its self can make a heav'n of hell or a hell of heav'n" {John Milton, Paradise Lost}Again, I know, not that romantic, but it always reminds me of the first days of romance, or the conflict in a story. Heav'n or Hell--you know, depending.
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