50 Quotes That Perfectly Define the Kind of Love You Deserve

In a world full of people who ghost after they initiated a conversation with you, it can be hard to remember that love really is out there.

And I’m not just talking about the kind of love that you feel for McDonalds on a particularly hungover Sunday (although that love can be very deep at times). I’m talking about that deep, everlasting, true love that makes your heart skip a beat.

If a steady stream of effboys has left you feeling down and unconvinced the whole ~love thing~ is literally ever going to happen for you, read these. It may not have happened yet, but this sort of love does exist. And you do deserve it.

1. “You’re the moon of my life, that’s all I know and all I need to know, and if this is a dream, I’ll kill the man who tries to wake me.” â€"Khal Drago to Daenerys Targaryen, Game of Thrones

2. “Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo. But you want someone who’ll help you catch the bus.” â€"Oprah Winfrey, People

3. “It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.” â€"The Fault in Our Stars

4. “To me, you are perfect” â€" Love Actually

5. “We started dating with the idea we’re both never going to get married. [Kutcher] just got out of a marriage. I got out of a long relationship. I was single and having the best time ever. I was totally dating, having a great time, and I was like ‘I’m never getting married.’ He’s like ‘Great. Neither am I!’ And we’re like shaking hands on it, and we’re like ‘Life is great!’ A year later, we’re like ‘Tomorrow, let’s get married.’” â€" Mila Kunis about Ashton Kutcher, Elle

6. “It’s not easy for someone to catch my eye/But I’ve been waitin’ for you my whole damn life.” â€"Khalid, “Love Lies”

7. “I love that you get cold when it’s 71 degrees out. I love that it takes you an hour and a half to order a sandwich. I love that you get a little crinkle above your nose when you’re looking at me like I’m nuts. I love that after I spend the day with you, I can still smell your perfume on my clothes. And I love that you are the last person I want to talk to before I go to sleep at night. And it’s not because I’m lonely, and it’s not because it’s New Year’s Eve. I came here tonight because when you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.” â€"Harry to Sally, When Harry Met Sally

8. “It’s like, where I need help, he’s really strong, and where he needs help, I’m really strong. When two people just fit together really wellâ€"he and I are like that.” â€"Jennifer Lopez about Alex Rodriguez, Cubby and Carolina in the Morning radio show

“If you’re a bird, I’m a bird.” â€"Noah, The Notebook

10. “I vow to fiercely love you in all your forms, now and forever. I promise to never forget that this is a once-in-a-lifetime love.” â€"The Vow

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11. “I am here, and I am looking at her. And she is so beautiful. I can see it. This one moment when you know you’re not a sad story. You are alive, and you stand up and see the lights on the buildings and everything that makes you wonder.” â€"The Perks of Being a Wallflower

12. “I was drawn to Mark because he was positively an alpha male, and I didn’t think I would be drawn to that. But I just worship him. He makes me feel very safe.” â€"Kelly Ripa about Mark Consuelos, Elle

13. “I’m not leaving because I’m scared or because I think I’m not enoughâ€"because maybe for the first time in my life, I know I am. [Choking back tears] I just love Nick so much, I don’t want him to lose his mom again. So I just wanted you to know: One dayâ€"when he marries another lucky girl who is enough for you, and you’re playing with your grandkids while the Tan Hua’s are blooming, and the birds are chirping, it was because of me: a poor, raised by a single mother, low-class, immigrant nobody.” â€" Rachel to Eleanor, Crazy Rich Asians

14. “I think you have different soul mates throughout your life, that your soul needs different things at different times. I do believe in love. I will always believe in love, but my idea has changed from what I’ve always thought.” â€"Kim Kardashian, Cosmopolitan UK

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15. “True love is singing karaoke ‘Under Pressure’ and letting the other person sing the Freddie Mercury part.” â€"Mindy Kaling, Twitter

16. “When you’re lucky enough to meet your one person, then life takes a turn for the best. It can’t get better than that.” â€"John Krasinski about Emily Blunt, The Daily Beast

17. “Dax helped me learn that I don’t have it all figured out. Sometimes that’s the greatest gift someone can give you.” â€" Kristen Bell about Dax Shepard, Good Housekeeping

18. “Remember those walls I built?/Well, baby they’re tumbling down/And they didn’t even put up a fight/They didn’t even make a sound/I found a way to let you in/But I never really had a doubt/Standing in the light of your halo/I got my angel now.” â€"Beyoncé, “Halo”

19. “I do like to put my relationships as a priority, and I really try to make that work. As long as people are making the effort to do so, I think anything can work.” â€"Khloé Kardashian

20. “I think that’s what is wrong with a lot of relationships if you don’t have time to be able to be yourself. I just love that my dude doesn’t really make me do that. He gets to do his thing and I get to do my thing, and then he inspires cool music and gets me to go to the beach more than I ever would.” â€"Miley Cyrus about Liam Hemsworth, The Zach Sang Show

“It’s not who you want to spend Friday night with, it’s who you want to spend all day Saturday with.” â€"Tommy, Friends With Benefits

22. “Every once in a while, I can catch a glimpse of her when she doesn’t see me looking, and I have this moment where I’m like, ‘If you only make bad decisions for the rest of your life, you made one really good decision.’” â€"Justin Timberlake about Jessica Biel, The Ellen Degeneres Show

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23. “It’s you, it’s you, it’s all for you/Everything I do/I tell you all the time/Heaven is a place on earth with you.” â€"Lana Del Rey, “Video Games”

24. “You don’t feel it every single day. You don’t wake up every day saying, ‘I’m absolutely so in love and you are perfect.’ That’s not what being married is. But there’s something beautiful about it anywayâ€"about wanting to fight for something, commit to building with someone. We’re really young, and that’s a scary aspect. We’re going to change a lot. But we’re committed to growing together and supporting each other in those changes. That’s how I look at it. At the end of the day, too, he’s my best friend. I never get sick of him.” â€"Hailey Bieber about marriage to Justin Bieber, Vogue

25. “Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what’s going to happen. It’s one of the most beautiful things in life, but it’s one of the most terrifying. It’s worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.” â€"Ariana Grande, Seventeen

“I think the perfection of love is that it’s not perfect.” â€"Taylor Swift

27. “Darling I wake up just to sleep with you/I open my eyes so I could see with you/and I live so I can die with you.” â€"Beyoncé, “Die With You”

28. “Love has no requirements. Thats what makes it Love. If your Love for another carries requirements, it is not Love, but a counterfeit version.” â€" Noah Centineo, Twitter

29. “But darling, just kiss me slow, your heart is all I own.” â€"Ed Sheeran, “Perfect”

30. “He motivates me. I married a guy almost 10 years younger than me, and I assumed I would be the teacher, and here I am the pupil learning and being motivated by his work ethic.…He inspires me.” â€"Gabrielle Union about Dwayne Wade, Entertainment Tonight

31. “I think the one thing is, we are imperfect, just like every couple in the world. We stick together through it allâ€"through the great times, through the bad times. You can get behind love, and you can get behind someone who is not deemed as perfect, you know, ‘Okay, they make mistakes just like we make mistakes, and this is how they figure it outâ€"they still love each other and they keep going the next day.’” Dwayne Wade about Gabrielle Union, Ocean Drive

32. “Once he was diagnosed, it dawned on me how funny it was, because all of the characteristics that make it clear that he’s on the spectrum are all of the reasons that I fell madly in love with him.” â€"Amy Schumer about her husband Chris Fischer, Amy Schumer: Growing

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33. “When someone tells you they love you every day it makes you love yourself.” â€"Sophie Turner about Joe Jonas, Dr. Phil

34. “I don’t believe love is fickle. I believe when you love someone, you are allowed to love from afar. You don’t have to be with that person in order to love him.” â€"Khloé Kardashian

35. “I don’t know what I think we are. I just know that I like the fact that there’s a ‘we’ for us to talk about.” â€"Kevin Pearson, This Is Us

36. “Got me standing in the rain/Gotta get my hair pressed again/I would do it for you all, my friend/Ready baby? Will you be my man?/Wanna put you on a plane/Fly you out to wherever I am ’” â€"Lizzo, “‘Cause I Love You”

“I prize her as the most valuable person in the world to me.” â€"Ashton Kutcher on Mila Kunis, People

38. “My girl, she ain’t the one that I saw coming, and sometimes I don’t know which way to go. I tried to run before, but I’m not running anymore. I’ve fought against it hard enough to know, that you love, who you love.” â€"John Mayer, “Who You Love”

39. “Life’s too short. Don’t be afraid to love and then keep loving and keep loving and doing more loving.” â€"Lana Condor, Entertainment Tonight

40. "We support each other in everything that we do. I love seeing her succeed at the things she loves to do, and she loves seeing me succeed at things that I love to do. That’s the way you should be with your partner.” â€"John Legend about Chrissy Teigen, Twitter

41. “Will you still love me when I’m no longer young and beautiful?/Will you still love me when I got nothing but my aching soul?/I know you will, I know you will.” â€"Lana Del Rey, “Young and Beautiful”

42. “The best love is the kind that awakens the soul, that makes us reach for more, that plants the fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. That’s what I hope to give you forever.” â€"Noah to Ally, The Notebook

“You had me at Hello.” â€"Jerry Maguire

44. “In my opinion, the best thing you can do is find someone who loves you for exactly what you are. Good mood, bad mood, ugly, pretty, handsome, what have you.” â€"Juno

45. “Sometimes you love a person because of all the reasons they’re not like you. And sometimes you love a person just because they feel like home.” â€"Bridget Jones’s Baby

46. “You know when I was a little boy I didn’t know what I wanted to be when I grew up. Adults always ask little kids that. I never had a good answer. Not until I was 28. Until the day that I met you. That’s when I knew exactly what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wanted to be the man that made you happy.” â€"Jack to Rebecca, This Is Us

47. “Ok I know this very weird but I’m addicted to my man scent Like i love how his hair and face smells I crave it It’s very comforting. He smells so good” â€" Cardi B about Offset, Twitter

48. “She makes me really happy.” â€"Liam Hemsworth about Miley Cyrus, Details

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49. “You’re amazing just the way you are.” â€"Bruno Mars, “Just the Way You Are”

50. “A lot of people told me I was crazy to wait this long for a date with a girl who I worked with, but I think, even then I knew, I was waiting for my wife.” â€"Jim about Pam, The Office

Candice Jalili Candice is a Sex, Relationship, & Lifestyle Writer based in NYC.