16 Unexpected Book Quotations To Use In Your Proposal

“True love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops. Everybody knows that.”
–The Princess Bride, by William Goldman

“I have a million things to talk to you about. All I want in this world is you. I want to see you and talk. I want the two of us to begin everything from the beginning.”
–Norwegian Wood, by Haruki Murakami

“When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.”
–A Farewell to Arms, by Ernest Hemingway

“I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.”
–The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho

“It has made me better loving you…it has made me wiser, and easier, and brighter. I used to want a great many things before, and to be angry that I did not have them. Theoretically, I was satisfied. I flattered myself that I had limited my wants. But I was subject to irritation; I used to have morbid sterile hateful fits of hunger, of desire. Now I really am satisfied, because I can’t think of anything better.”
–The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
–Tao Te Ching by Lao Tsu

“Don’t ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it. I saw you and made up my mind.”
–Jazz by Toni Morrison

“I want to be the last person who ever kisses you, too…. That sounds bad, like a death threat or something. What I’m trying to say is, you’re it. This is it for me.”
–Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell

“If you can just get most people to leave you alone, you’re doing good. If you can find even one person you really like, you’re lucky. And if that person can also stand you, you’re really lucky.”
–The Complete Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson

“Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.”
–Snow by Orhan Pamuk

“Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.”
–Airman’s Odyssey by Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“The half life of love is forever.”
–This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz

“There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.”
–Dracula by Bram Stoker

“There are no happy endings. 
Endings are the saddest part,
So just give me a happy middle
And a very happy start.”
–Every Thing on It by Shel Silverstein

“Strength enough to build a home,
Time enough to hold a child, 
Love enough to break a heart.”
–Wintersmith by Terry Pratchett

“This is my wish for you: Comfort on difficult days, smiles when sadness intrudes, rainbows to follow the clouds, laughter to kiss your lips, sunsets to warm your heart, hugs when spirits sag, beauty for your eyes to see, friendships to brighten your being, faith so that you can believe, confidence for when you doubt, courage to know yourself, patience to accept the truth, Love to complete your life.”
–Essays and Poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson