Whether you’re a true romantic at heart or the world’s biggest cynic, there are those truly romantic lines in fiction and poetry that we can’t help but smile at every now and then as we sift through the pages of a good read.
Writers know how to pick just the right words and phrases that tug our heart strings.
Here are twelve beautiful romantic lines from poetry and fiction that made us feel things:
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Persuasion by Jane Austen
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
“Sonnet XVII” by Pablo Neruda
Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion
Submarine by Joe Dunthrone
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
“Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven” by William Butler Yeats
Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence
“Love Song” by Rainer Maria Rilke
Corelli’s Mandolin by Louis de Bernières
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