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These quotes kill two birds with one stone: use them to ace essays and woo your crush. Click on any love quote below to see it in context and find out where it falls on Shmoop's pretentious scale. We'll give you details on who said it, when they said it, and in some cases, why on earth they thought it was okay to say it.

"And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came."Source: Other Voices, Other Rooms | Author: Truman Capote

"Anything worth dying for...is certainly worth living for."Source: Catch-22 | Author: Joseph Heller

"Because when we love, we always strive to become better than we are."Source: The Alchemist | Author: Paulo Coelho

"Cause I can't make you love me if you don't."Source: I Can't Make You Love Me | Speaker: Bonnie Raitt

"Good night, you princes of Maine, you kings of New England."Source: The Cider House Rules | Speaker: Dr. Wilbur Larch

"Got a long list of ex-lovers; they'll tell you I'm insane."Source: "Blank Space" | Speaker: Taylor Swift

"He's leavin'… on that midnight train to Georgia."Source: Midnight Train to Georgia | Speaker: Gladys Knight and the Pips

"How do I love thee? Let me count the ways."Source: How do I love Thee (Sonnet 43) | Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"I always say a kiss on the hand might feel very good, but a diamond tiara lasts forever."Source: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes | Speaker: Lorelei Lee

"I can't help falling in love with you."Source: Can't Help Falling in Love | Speaker: Elvis Presley

"I don't care who you are, where you're from, what you did, as long as you love me"Source: "As Long As You Love Me" | Speaker: Backstreet Boys

"I don't think that there's anything worse than being ordinary."Source: American Beauty | Speaker: Angela Hayes

"I feel so close to you right now, it's a force field."Source: Feel So Close | Speaker: Calvin Harris

"I guess maybe I've even loved you before I saw you."Source: A Place in the Sun | Speaker: George Eastman

"I had a great evening; it was like the Nuremberg Trials."Source: Hannah and Her Sisters | Speaker: Mickey

"I just can't get you outta my head."Source: "Can't Get You Out of My Head" | Speaker: Kylie Minogue

"I love that woman. I love her more than sharks love blood."Source: House of Cards | Speaker: Frank Underwood

"I love you only because it's you the one I love"Source: I Do Not Love You Except Because I Love You | Author: Pablo Neruda

"I think people should mate for life, like pigeons or Catholics."Source: Manhattan | Speaker: Isaac Davis

"I'm also just a girl standing in front of a boy asking him to love her."Source: Notting Hill | Speaker: Anna Scott

"I've got a blank space, baby, and I'll write your name."Source: Blank Space | Speaker: Taylor Swift

"I've got all my life to live and I've got all my love to give"Source: I Will Survive | Speaker: Gloria Gaynor

"If suddenlySource: If You Forget Me | Author: Pablo Neruda
you forget me
do not look for me,
for I shall already have forgotten you."

"If you liked it, then you shoulda put a ring on it."Source: Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It) | Speaker: Beyoncé

"Ilsa, I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world."Source: Casablanca | Speaker: Rick Blaine

"In sleep, he sang to me. In dreams, he came. That voice which calls to me and speaks my name."Source: The Phantom of the Opera (1986 Musical) | Speaker: Christine Daae

"Islands in the stream, that is what we are."Source: Islands in the Stream | Speaker: Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers

"It's not the years, honey. It's the mileage."Source: Raiders of the Lost Ark | Speaker: Indiana Jones

"Love fades away. But things...things are forever."Source: Parks and Recreation | Speaker: Tom Haverford

"Maybe I'm amazed at the way you love me all the time."Source: "Maybe I'm Amazed" | Speaker: Paul McCartney

"My love for you will still be strong after the boys of summer have gone."Source: The Boys of Summer | Speaker: Don Henley

"Ninotchka, it's midnight. One half of Paris is making love to the other half."Source: Ninotchka | Speaker: Count Leon d'Algout

"O my Luve's like a Red, Red Rose That's newly sprung in June"Source: A Red, Red Rose | Author: Robert Burns

"Oh, Jerry, don't let's ask for the moon. We have the stars."Source: Now, Voyager | Speaker: Charlotte Vale

"Oh, Moses, Moses, you stubborn, splendid, adorable fool."Source: The Ten Commandments | Speaker: Nefretiri

"Say you'll share with me one love, one lifetime."Source: The Phantom of the Opera (1986 Musical) | Speaker: Christine Daae

"Some infinities are bigger than other infinities."Source: The Fault in Our Stars | Author: John Green

"Some say love, it is a hunger, an endless aching need. I say love, it is a flower and you its only seed."Source: The Rose | Speaker: Bette Midler

"That's what I love about these high school girls, man. I get older, they stay the same age."Source: Dazed and Confused | Speaker: David Wooderson

"The only one who could ever reach me was the son of a preacher man."Source: Son of a Preacher Man | Speaker: Dusty Springfield

"There was something in the air that night, the stars were bright, Fernando."Source: Fernando | Speaker: ABBA

"This thing called love, I just can't handle it."Source: "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" | Speaker: Queen

"Tonight I can write the saddest lines"Source: Tonight I Can Write the Saddest Lines | Author: Pablo Neruda

"We accept the love we think we deserve."Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower | Author: Stephen Chbosky

"What a treacherous thing to believe a person is more than a person."Source: Paper Towns | Author: John Green

"What you call love was invented by guys like me...to sell Nylons."Source: Mad Men | Speaker: Don Draper

"What's so funny 'bout peace, love, and understanding?"Source: "Peace, Love, and Understanding" | Speaker: Elvis Costello

"When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible."Source: When Harry Met Sally | Speaker: Harry Burns

"When you're reaching for a star, there's a long way to fall."Source: Roxanne | Speaker: C.D. Bales

"You want the moon? Just say the word, and I'll throw a lasso around it and pull it down."Source: It's a Wonderful Life | Speaker: George Bailey