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Just because I need more of this in my life, here’s a thread of some of the most swoon-worthy love-confessions that men in classic novels give to the women they love...
(Fellas, take notes & use this top-secret info wisely! With great power comes great responsibility.
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(Fellas, take notes & use this top-secret info wisely! With great power comes great responsibility.
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"You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone forever. I offer myself to you... I have loved none but you... For you alone, I think and plan..."
(Capt. Wentworth: Persuasion)
(Capt. Wentworth: Persuasion)
“I cannot make speeches… If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. But you know what I am. You hear nothing but truth from me… Bear with the truths I would tell you now, dearest… But you understand me…”
(Mr. Knightly: Emma)
(Mr. Knightly: Emma)
“In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”
(Mr. Darcy: Pride & Prejudice)
(Mr. Darcy: Pride & Prejudice)
"I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be."
(Pip: Great Expectations)
(Pip: Great Expectations)
"I have for the first time found what I can truly love–I have found you. You are my sympathy–my better self–my good angel–I am bound to you with a strong attachment. I think you good, gifted, lovely..."
(Mr. Rochester: Jane Eyre)
(Mr. Rochester: Jane Eyre)
"Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear. Your mind is my treasure, and if it were broken, it would be my treasure still..."
(Mr. Rochester: Jane Eyre)
(Mr. Rochester: Jane Eyre)
"You should be kissed and often, and by someone who knows how.”
(Rhett Butler: Gone With the Wind)
(Rhett Butler: Gone With the Wind)
"I do love nothing in the world so well as you—is not that strange?"
(Benedick: Much Ado About Nothing)
(Benedick: Much Ado About Nothing)
“Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move, Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love."
(Hamlet: Shakespeare's Hamlet)
(Hamlet: Shakespeare's Hamlet)
“How beautiful you are! I dare not look at you. It is all over with me when I contemplate you. You are a grace."
(Marius: Les Misérables)
(Marius: Les Misérables)
"All this gladness in life, all honest pride in doing my work in the world, all this keen sense of being... I owe it to one... whom I love, as I do not believe man ever loved woman before."
(John Thornton: North & South)
(John Thornton: North & South)
