“I love you because you’re clever. I love you because you’re talented.” He touched my chin. “I love you because you have a perfect smile. I love you because you bite your lip when you’re nervous and I think it’s adorable.” – Asunder, Jodi Meadows

“All I could think about was the soft texture of his lips and the way love for him bloomed inside me like a light cell blinking ot life in a pitch-black room.” – Override, Heather Anastasiu

“His eyes flickered with a flash of humor. ‘She speaks.’ ‘She also kills,’ she said. He let out a low laugh. ‘You have ano idea how much. I look forward to our marriage.’ – The Prophecy, Ellen Oh

“If I were to live a thousand years, I would belong to you for all of them. If we were to live a thousand lives, I would want to make you mine in each one.” – The Evolution of Mara Dyer, Michelle Hodkin

“You can’t hurt me the way you think you can. But even if you could? I would rather die with the taste of you on my tongue than live and never touch you again. I’m in love with you, Mara. I love you. No matter what you do.” – The Evolution of Mara Dyer, Michelle Hodkin

“For love is more beautiful than rubies, sweeter than honey, finer than the king’s wine. And no one has greater love than he who gives his own life for a friend.” – The Crown of Embers, Rae Carson

“Love: a single word, a wispy thing, a word no bigger or longer than an edge. That’s what it is: an edge, a razor. It draws up through the center of your life, cutting everything in two. Before and after. The rest of the world falls away on either side.” – Delirium, Lauren Oliver

“‘Should even the world stand against her, my blade will be at her side. And should it fail to protect her, let my own existence be forfeit. This I swear, on my honor, my True Name, and my life. From this day on…’ This voice went even softer, but I still heard it as though he whispered it into my ear. ‘I am yours.’” – The Iron Queen, Julie Kagawa

“There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.” ― The Truth About Forever, Sarah Dessen

“‘You love me. Real or not real?” I tell him, ‘Real.’ – – Mockingjay, Suzanne Collins

“Dumbledore watched her fly away, and as her silvery glow faded he turned back to Snape, and his eyes were full of tears. ‘After all this time?’ ‘Always,’ said Snape.” ― Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, J.K. Rowling

“And now I’m looking at you,” he said, “and you’re asking me if I still want you, as if I could stop loving you. As if I would want to give up the thing that makes me stronger than anything else ever has. I never dared give much of myself to anyone before – bits of myself to the Lightwoods, to Isabelle and Alec, but it took years to do it – but, Clary, since the first time I saw you, I have belonged to you completely. I still do. If you want me.” ― City of Glass, Cassandra Clare