Here are some mushy, ooey gooey literature quotes that I love…
“When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.”
—Shakespeare
“We loved with a love that was more than love.”
—Edgar Allan Poe
“Whatever our souls are made out of, his and mine are the same…If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.”
—Emily Brontë
“Every lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel.”
—Neil Gaiman
“The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that strangers didn’t stop each other on the street to say I love you.”
—Jonathan Safran Foer
“And when one of them meets with his other half, the actual half of himself, whether he be a lover of youth or a lover of another sort, the pair are lost in an amazement of love and friendship and intimacy.”
—Plato
“Time is very slow for those who wait
Very fast for those who are scared
very long for those who lament
Very short for those who celebrate
But for those who love time is eternal”
—Shakespeare