Get ready for some serious swooning. These are some of the most romantic quotes and lines we have ever read in YA lit. Have one to add? Be sure to share it with us in the comments below!

“No matter what has happened. No matter what you’ve done. No matter what you will do. I will always love you. I swear it.”

— Defiance by C.J. Redwine

“I wanted to tell you that wherever I am, whatever happens, I’ll always think of you, and the time we spent together, as my happiest time. I’d do it all over again, if I had the choice. No regrets.”

— Boundless by Cynthia Hand

“And in her smile I see something more beautiful than the stars.”

— Across the Universe by Beth Revis

“It’s one thing to fall in love. It’s another to feel someone else fall in love with you, and to feel a responsibility toward that love.”

— Every Day by David Levithan

“I love you the way a drowning man loves air. And it would destroy me to have you just a little.”



— The Crown of Embers by Rae Carson

“I’m in love with you, and I’m not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I’m in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we’re all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we’ll ever have, and I am in love with you.”



— The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

“I never loved you any more than I do, right this second. And I’ll never love you any less than I do, right this second.”

— Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl

“Sometimes I can’t see myself when I’m with you. I can only just see you.”



— Tiger Lily by Jodi Lynn Anderson

“I am catastrophically in love with you.”

— Clockwork Princess by Cassandra Clare

“I knew the second I met you that there was something about you I needed. Turns out it wasn’t something about you at all. It was just you.”

— Beautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuire

“I realized love was this.” His put his hand on his chest. “This deep, intense caring about someone’s well-being. About wanting that person to be okay no matter what happens to yourself.”

— Love, Life, and the List by Kasie West

“You’re my favorite way to pass the time. But time stands still when you’re on my mind.”

— P.S. I Like You by Kasie West

“I love you. Remember. They cannot take it”

— Delirium by Lauren Oliver

“I want everyone to meet you. You’re my favorite person of all time.”

—Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell

“If my love were an ocean, there would be no more land. If my love were a desert, you would see only sand. If my love were a star–late at night, only light. And if my love could grow wings, I’d be soaring in flight.”

— Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher

“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 by Sarah Dessen

“I don’t care how hard being together is, nothing is worse than being apart.”

—Starcrossed by Josephine Angelini

“I want to be the friend you fall hopelessly in love with. The one you take into your arms and into your bed and into the private world you keep trapped in your head. I want to be that kind of friend. The one who will memorize the things you say as well as the shape of your lips when you say them. I want to know every curve, every freckle, every shiver of your body. I want to know where to touch you, I want to know how to touch you. I want to know convince you to design a smile just for me. Yes, I do want to be your friend. I want to be your best friend in the entire world.”

— Unravel Me by Tahereh Mafi

“But you’ve slipped under my skin, invaded my blood and seized my heart.”

— Poison Study by Maria V. Snyder

“And I’ve realized that the Beatles got it wrong. Love isn’t all we need—love is all there is.”

— Second Chance Summer by Morgan Matson

“Love lets you find those hidden places in another person, even the ones they didn’t know were there, even the ones they wouldn’t have thought to call beautiful themselves.”

— Wild Awake by Hilary T. Smith

“No matter where I went, I always knew my way back to you. You are my compass star.”

— For Darkness Shows the Stars by Diana Peterfreund

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