In honor of Valentine's Day, I handpicked some of my favorite romantic lines from the stories I've written over the years. It was kind of wild and crazy and surreal revisiting these old friends, but ALL of the same feelings were there.
Enjoy!
(and a bit of lust, if we're being totally honest) ;)
"I dream about your smile. About touching you. I dream
about being with you. Like this.”
“Yes. I love you, all right? I shouldn’t, but I do. But
you’ve got to believe me when I say this is too dangerous. And maybe I’m being
selfish, but I’m doing this because I
love you. I can’t lose you. You’re too important to me.”
“This—all of this—it's not something I could ever forget. I
never stood a chance against you. And no matter what happens, something inside
me will always remember you. It has to."
"I never regretted coming back to you. It was worth it,
for the time we spent together. And I'm not sorry for any of it.”
“I might be your best friend, but you're my everything . . ."
“That's not why I accepted your invitation. It's not even why
I approached you last evening. The truth is I was desperate for a reason to
speak to you."
"I will always find a way back to you. Always."
“Something tells me you're worth saving."
“If I meet you at your third floor window tonight, will you
let me in?”
“I’ll tell you what happened. What happened is that I fell in
love with you. That whole thing about timing? You were right: there is no such
thing as perfect timing. And this is the worst timing ever, actually, because
you’re going to go on, you’re going to graduate and leave. And that’s fine, but
I’m telling you, right now, at this moment, I think . . . I think I love you. .
. . I love you more than I’ve ever loved anything. And you have been on my mind
for weeks. And being late that day—you being my partner—is the best thing that
ever happened to me.”
“You have no idea what you’ve done to me. You just, barged in
and flipped my entire world upside down. I didn’t know what to do!”
“When you love
someone you love them. And every day you sit back pretending that you don’t is
one less day you have with him.”
“I’m selfish. Selfish enough to want it all.
And I know if I don’t have you . . . I don’t
have anything.”
I'm not
like that, I want to tell her. I
am nothing like you think I am.
“I want to kiss her. I can't stop thinking about her. I keep
making excuses, trying to find ways to be with her."
And staring at her, standing on this cobblestone pathway,
miles away from our real lives and our real problems, everything is clear. I'd
do anything for this girl.
I want to tell her everything. I want to tell her who I am
and what I've done. I want to tell her what I'm feeling at this very
moment—that she has jarred my world sideways. That I'd rather have my heart
ripped out of my body than to ever see her cry. I want to tell her that I fell
for her the day she cornered me in the guy's bathroom, with its graffitied
doors and broken soap dispenser, and that I've fallen for her every day since. I
want to tell her that, if she'll give me a chance, I'll do everything I can to
keep her smiling—to keep her happy. I'll be whatever she needs me to be.
Whatever she wants. I want to tell her that it was unplanned, that it was
unexpected, but that I love her. I love her more than I've loved anything ever
before.
“I’m beginning to
think I’ve underestimated you.”
“They just can’t
believe a guy like me could land someone as beautiful as you.”
“You are strong.
You’re stronger than anyone I’ve ever known, and I won’t ever let you think
that you’re not.”
“I will risk whatever
life throws our way for a hundred Christmas Eves with you. Because I have a
feeling you’re worth it. You might not believe in perfect, but I do. Because I
believe in you.”
