Every chapter of love doesn’t come with a happy ending. But some declarations are remembered not for what they achieved, but how they managed to freeze the feeling in time.
8 Beautiful and Brutal Love Confessions Tucked Away in Literature
At no point in time have the words ‘I love you’ ever promised forever without a doubt. But these unforgettable love confessions, tucked away between aging pages, pierce and please a heart that knows it, every time the eyes read it. (Credit: AI)
A Tale of Two Cities
“I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul.” – Charles Dickens (Credit: The Heaven Lady Bookshelf)
Persuasion
“You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope.” – Jane Austen (Credit: Fine Art Prints)
Wuthering Heights
“He is more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” – Emily Bronte (Credit: Fine Art in America)
Love in the Time of Cholera
“I have waited for this opportunity for more than half a century, to repeat to you once again my vow of eternal fidelity and everlasting love.” – Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Credit: Bookey)
Letters to Milena
“Milena, if a million loved you, I am one of them, and if one loved you, it was me, if no one loved you then know that I am dead.” – Franz Kafka (Credit: Facebook)
Emma
“If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.” – Jane Austen (Credit: Himmapaan)
The Song of Achilles
“I could recognise him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.” – Madeline Miller (Credit: Instagram/arcanegold_)
The Age of Innocence
“Each time you happen to me all over again.” – Edith Wharton (Credit: Readings)