The last time I was curled up with my long-distance boyfriend, I was introducing him to the magic that is When Harry Met Sally. Exhausted from a red-eye flight the evening before, I zonked out minutes shy of my all-time favorite movie moment—the part where Harry races through a crowd, grabs Sally, and spills his guts: "I love that you get cold when it's 71 degrees out. I love that it takes you an hour and a half to order a sandwich. I love that you get a little crinkle above your nose when you're looking at me like I'm nuts. I love that after I spend the day with you, I can still smell your perfume on my clothes. And I love that you are the last person I want to talk to before I go to sleep at night. And it's not because I'm lonely, and it's not because it's New Year's Eve. I came here tonight because 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."
I may just cry now reading it. And if you feel the same and want to get a little sappy with me, here's a collection of love quotes—from celebrities, characters they've played, and the best authors of our time and before—to get you in the mushiest of moods.
"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams." —Dr. Suess
"I am in love—and my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell you, find a woman you can fall in love with. Do it. Let yourself fall in love. If you have not done so already, you are wasting your life." —D. H. Lawrence
"The best smell in the world is that man that you love." —Jennifer Aniston
"In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you." —Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
"The heart wants what it wants. There's no logic to these things. You meet someone and you fall in love and that's that." —Woody Allen
"The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. And that's what you've given me. That's what I'd hoped to give you forever." —Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
"There's no substitute for a great love who says, 'No matter what's wrong with you, you're welcome at this table.'" —Tom Hanks
"I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close." —Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets
"I've got the most beautiful woman on the earth. She is the idol of more than half of men and women on earth, and I was the one allowed to fall asleep next to her and to hug her shoulders." —Brad Pitt, about Angelina Jolie
"If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk through my garden forever." —Alfred Tennyson
"I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self-respect. And it's these things I'd believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn't all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything." —F. Scott Fitzgerald
Do you have a treasured quote about love that makes you warm inside? If so, share it below!