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Iris Murdoch
“I love you. I saw you that night in the garden, and I knew you were magic like in dreams.”
Iris Murdoch, The Sacred and Profane Love Machine

Iris Murdoch
“I saw . . . what I've really know all along, that you are my truth. For me you are the way the truth and the life. Only here can I be totally myself.”
Iris Murdoch, The Sacred and Profane Love Machine

Henry James
“Suddenly she said to him with extraordinary beauty: "I engage myself to you forever."

The beauty was in everything, and he could have separated nothing—couldn't have thought of her face as distinct from the whole joy. Yet her face had a new light. "And I pledge you—I call God to witness!—every spark of my faith; I give you every drop of my life.”
Henry James, The Wings of the Dove

Iris Murdoch
“There's no point in talking it over. It would only make things worse. There's nothing to say. I just love you. That's all of it."

"That's half of it," said Ducane. "Possibly over dinner I might tell you the other half.”
Iris Murdoch, The Nice and the Good

Henry James
“I shall stay here as long as I may, I don't want to think — I needn't think. I don't care for anything but you, and that's enough for the present. It will last a little yet. Here on my knees, with you dying in my arms, I'm happier than I've been for a long time. And I want you to be happy — not to think of anything sad; only to feel that I'm near you and I love you. Why should there be pain? In such hours as this what have we to do with pain? That's not the deepest thing; there's something deeper.”
Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

Jane Austen
“He had followed her into the shrubbery with no idea of trying it”
Jane Austen, Emma

Joy Harjo
What I Should Have Said

There's nothing that says you can't
call. I spend the weekdays teaching
and moving my children from breakfast
to bedtime. What else, I feel like a traitor
telling someone else things I can't tell
to you. What is it that keeps us together?
Fingertip to fingertip, from Santa Fe
to Albuquerque?
I feel bloated with what I should say
and what I don't. We drift and drift, with
few storms of heat inbetween the motions.
I love you. The words confuse me.
Maybe they have become a cushion
keeping us in azure sky and in flight
not there, not here.
We are horses knocked out with tranquilizers
sucked into a deep deep sleeping for the comfort
and anesthesia death. We are caught between
clouds and wet earth
and there is no motion
either way
no life
to speak of.”
Joy Harjo, She Had Some Horses

Iris Murdoch
“Are we not somehow compelled by love? I shall not let one day pass without giving you the assurance of mine. Surely there is a future for us together. I am yours yours yours.”
Iris Murdoch, The Nice and the Good

Iris Murdoch
“It is unfortunately for us both also the truth that I love you and only you utterly and permanently and to distraction.”
Iris Murdoch, The Nice and the Good

Iris Murdoch
“I'm falling in love with you again, most terribly in love."

"I've never been out of love with you, never for a second.”
Iris Murdoch, The Nice and the Good

Henry James
“I shall always think of you; I shall never think of anyone else. I came to England simply because you are here; I couldn't stay at home after you had gone: I hated the country because you were not in it. If I like this country at present it is only because it holds you.”
Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

Henry James
“I'm capable of nothing with regard to you . . . but just of being infernally in love with you.”
Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

Henry James
“I've thought of you perpetually, ever since I last saw you. I'm exactly the same. I love you just as much, and everything I said to you then is just as true.”
Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

Henry James
“When I tell you I love you it's simply what I came for. I thought it was for something else; but it was for that. I shouldn't say it if I didn't believe I should never see you again. It's the last time — let me pluck a single flower! I've no right to say that, I know; and you've no right to listen. But you don't listen; you never listen, you're always thinking of something else.”
Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

Henry James
“You did something once — you know it. O Ralph, you've been everything! What have I done for you — what can I do to-day? I would die if you could live. But I don't wish you to live; I would die myself, not to lose you." Her voice was as broken as his own and full of tears and anguish.

"You won't lose me — you'll keep me. Keep me in your heart; I shall be nearer to you than I've ever been.”
Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

Henry James
“I love you. It's because I love you that I'm here.”
Henry James, The Wings of the Dove

Lisa Kleypas
“I love you, dammit! I love you because you belong to me. I love you for taking care of me. For making me feel as if there is still some good left in me. Philippe was a better man than I’ll ever be. God knows he deserved you more than I do. But he’s gone now…and I need you.”

-Justin Vallerand”
Lisa Kleypas, Only With Your Love

William Shakespeare
“I love thee. By my life, I do.”
William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Henry James
“They had exchanged vows and tokens, sealed their rich compact, solemnized, so far as breathed words and murmured sounds and lighted eyes and clasped hands could do it, their agreement to belong only, and to belong tremendously, to each other.”
Henry James, The Wings of the Dove

Henry James
“But my impression dates from the very first hour we met. I lost no time, I fell in love with you then. It was at first sight, as the novels say; I know now that's not a fancy-phrase, and I shall think better of novels for evermore.”
Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

Henry James
“Yes, you've something to hide. It's none of my business — very true. But I love you," said Caspar Goodwood.”
Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

Henry James
“I love you as I've never loved you.”
Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

Henry James
“Something suddenly, as if under a last determinant touch, welled up in him and overflowed—the sense of his good fortune and her variety, of the future she promised, the interest she supplied. "All women but you are stupid. How can I look at another? You're different and different—and then you're different again . . . Even 'society' won't know how good for it you are; it's too stupid, and you're beyond it. You'd have to pull it uphill—it's you yourself who are at the top. The women one meets—what are they but books one has already read? You're a whole library of the unknown, the uncut." He almost moaned, he ached, from the depth of his content. "Upon my word, I've a subscription!”
Henry James, The Wings of the Dove

Hannah Richell
“The most poignant image of all is one she only notices as she takes another turn and gazes at the ceiling. In a single patch of blue sky, a solitary gap in the dense canopy, she sees the outline of a familiar bird: a sparrowhawk flying free. She smiles to see it, remembering that first day with Jack in their woodland cathedral.
It's then that she realizes, finally, what the room represents. It isn't just a playful depiction of their woodland place, a triumph of the mastery of illusion. This painted room is something else entirely. It is a declaration of love. It is a veiled tribute to their love affair- a depiction of the most precious moments they have shared, laid out in a secret code only she will understand. Lillian spins around, astounded, drinking it all in.”
Hannah Richell, The Peacock Summer

Maddy Kobar
“You deserve better. I'll give you something so, so much better. By all the beating hearts of the rebel poets, I do solemnly swear, my darling, you shall soon be free!”
Maddy Kobar, With a Reckless Abandon

Christy English
“She kissed him, her lips lingering on his. It was Pembroke who pulled away, raising his glass to her.

"To Lady Pembroke, the only woman I will ever love.”
Christy English, Love on a Midsummer Night

Christy English
“I have loved you all my life. I will always love you.”
Christy English, Love on a Midsummer Night

Christy English
“I love you, Raymond. Now and forever. I think that love is eternal for me.”
Christy English, Love on a Midsummer Night

Mary Balogh
“I have gone and done something very silly, Becky," he said, flashing her a grin. "I have fallen in love with you. You will think me very foolish, will you not, old friend? I have been fighting it all summer."

"I don't think you are foolish, Christopher," she said, gazing earnestly back at him. "I have loved you for a long time.”
Mary Balogh, The Constant Heart