To celebrate Valentine’s Day, here are quotes about love from some of our favorite authors:

I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun. – Jane Austen

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don’t, they never were. – Kahlil Gibran

Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart. – Charles Dickens

You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults. – William Faulkner

The very essence of romance is uncertainty. – Oscar Wilde

Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything. If you don’t write stories you love, you’ll never make it. If you don’t write stories that other people love, you’ll never make it. – Ray Bradbury