Romance Books to Make You Swoon
Spend a romantic evening with yourself, and read.
Read about good loves, mad loves, bad loves.
Cozy up with these classics this Valentine's day!
(Yes, all of them.)
Pride and Prejudice deserves eternal worship, but we need to talk about the quiet, blossoming love of Persuasion. And we need to talk about men in uniform. It's very important.
My favourite quote: “Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.”
I'm sorry, but if you can't quote The Princess Bride by heart, we can't be friends.
My favourite quite: “I love you,' Buttercup said. 'I know this must come as something of a surprise to you, since all I've ever done is scorn you and degrade you and taunt you, but I have loved you for several hours now, and every second, more. I thought an hour ago that I loved you more than any woman has ever loved a man, but a half hour after that I knew that what I felt before was nothing compared to what I felt then. But ten minutes after that, I understood that my previous love was a puddle compared to the high seas before a storm.”
Books are not how-to guides: reading about toxic romance is much better than living through it. Never date a Heathcliff, but enjoy the dark passion and beautiful prose.
My favourite quote: “Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living. You said I killed you--haunt me then. The murdered do haunt their murderers. I believe--I know that ghosts have wandered the earth. Be with me always--take any form--drive me mad. Only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! It is unutterable! I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!”
Maurice invented dark academia. I'll die on this hill.
My favourite quote: “There was something better in life than this rubbish, if only he could get to it—love—nobility—big spaces where passion clasped peace, spaces no science could reach, but they existed for ever, full of woods some of them, and arched with majestic sky and a friend. . .”
It is a love story, and what a love story it is: of race and racing hearts.
My favourite quote: “I am an expression of the divine, just like a peach is, just like a fish is. I have a right to be this way...I can't apologize for that, nor can I change it, nor do I want to... We will never have to be other than who we are in order to be successful...We realize that we are as ourselves unlimited and our experiences valid. It is for the rest of the world to recognize this, if they choose.”