The greatest romantic quotes from children's and teen books | Children's books

September 2024 · 3 minute read
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The greatest romantic quotes from children's and teen books

This article is more than 8 years old

Need some help writing your Valentine’s cards? Books have all the answers, so find the most swoonworthy quotes – from The Fault in Our Stars to Guess How Much I Love you

To celebrate Valentine’s day, we picked our favourite love quotes:

I just want to spend every possible minute of the rest of my life with you.
— Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

I don’t want the world, I want you.
— Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire

He didn’t give me flowers or candy. He gave me the moon and the stars. Infinity.
— Jenny Han, We’ll Always Have Summer

I love you right up to the moon - and back.- Sam McBratney, Guess how much I love you

Guess How Much I Love You is gorgeously illustrated by Anita Jeram Illustration: pr/Anita Jeram

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.
– Joan Powers, Pooh’s Little Instruction Book

Meeting your soulmate is like walking into a house you’ve been in before.
– Jandy Nelson, I’ll Give You the Sun

You are what happiness means to me. And I would rather have today with you than forever with anyone else.
– Michelle Hodkin, The Retribution of Mara Dyer

Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson as Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark in the movie version of Hunger Games 2: Catching Fire. Photograph: PR

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

As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly and then all at once.
– John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

And then I did laugh, even though the future was a dangerous place, because I loved her, and she loved me, and the world was beautiful.
– Maggie Steifvater, Forever

Love will turn the whole world into something greater than itself.
– Lauren Oliver, Delirium

If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter.
- Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

Did we miss any greats out? Email them to childrens.books@theguardian.com or share on Twitter @GdnChildrensBks and we’ll add as many as we can.

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