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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