"i love you. most ardently." pride and prejudice

"i don't want to be married just to be married. i can't think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my life with someone i can't talk to, or worse, someone i can't be silent with." the guernsey literary and potato peel pie society

"medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. but poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for." dead poets society

"just because my dreams are different than yours, it doesn't mean they're unimportant." little women