Romantic Literary Quotes to Incorporate Into Vows
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Is your partner a bookworm? Put these quotes in your vows and watch them swoon.
Writing wedding vows is hard. How you capture exactly how you feel about your partner on a flash card? And not all of us can be William Shakespeare.
In times like these, we turn to the professionals: people who paid to write the words scrawled across our hearts. If the person standing next to you on the altar is an avid reader, all the better. Here are 20 of our top picks:
1. "Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.
- Charlotte Brönte, Jane Eyre
2. "You love me. Real or not real?"
- Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay
3. "I was his and he was mine, and we were the beginning and middle and end. We were a song that had been sung from the very first ember of light in the world."
- Sarah J.Maas, A Court of Mist & Fury
4. "Doubt thou the stars are fire; doubt that the sun doth move; doubt truth to be a liar; but never doubt I love."
- William Shakespeare, Hamlet
5. "You are scored on my heart."
- Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
6. "I have been made to protect you. Only in death will I be kept from this oath."
- Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows
7. "You're the scariest, most clever, bravest person I know, and sometimes I can't catch my breath because I'm trying so hard to keep up. There will never be another like you. You realize that, don't you? Billions of people will come and go in this world, but there will never be another like you."
- Marie Lu, Champion
8. "I'm in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we're all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we'll ever have, and I am in love with you."
- John Green, The Fault In Our Stars
9. "You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope... I have loved none but you."
- Jane Austen, Persuasion
10. "I'd know you in the dark," he said. "From a thousand miles away. There's nothing you could become that I haven't already fallen in love with."
- Rainbow Rowell, Attachments
11. "So it's not gonna be easy. It's going to be really hard; we're gonna have to work at this every day, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, everyday. You and me... every day."
- Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
12. "If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you."
- A.A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh
13. "Her desires are mine. Her wishes are mine. Should even the world stand against her, my blade will be at her side."
- Julie Kagawa, The Iron Queen
14. "You can fall in love again with someone you're already in love with. It's like waking from a dream within a dream and finding another layer, the colors more vivid, the light more lucid, the fantasy more real. Being in love is an endless loop of waking to reverie."
- Leah Raeder, Cam Girl
15. "For the two of us, home isn't a place. It is a person. And we are finally home."
- Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss
16. "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."
- J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
17. "I choose him over and over again, and he chooses me."
- Veronica Roth, Allegiant
18. "You must know. I cannot remember a time when I didn't love you. I don't think such a time ever existed."
- Marissa Meyer, Winter
19. "Each time you happen to me all over again."
- Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence
20. "The mouth is made for communication, and nothing is more articulate than a kiss."
- Jarod Kintz, It Occurred to Me
Which quote is your favourite? Or if you think all these are sickening and cliché, drop us your favourites below!
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