MAN-TO-MAN
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By Charles Anyiam-Osigwe
Love can sometimes leave you speechless. You are overwhelmed with emotions and lost for words, or you are simply not given to expressing your feelings. I know that as a man, it can be hard to put words to your emotions but the women in our lives blossom on the sweet weighty words we speak or have not spoken. This can be challenging for most men with few exceptions -You need not be lost and confused. Down the ages a lot has been penned down which we can fall back on when we are lost for the right words to express how we feel to our beloved. So guys, don’t be dumbfounded here are some of those romantic lines that are bound to have the desired effect on the one you only have eyes for. Get ready for some serious swooning.
Here we go:
“I never loved you any more than I do, right this second. And I’ll never love you any less than I do, right this second.” – Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl
For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul. – Judy Garland
“Who, being loved, is poor?” -Oscar Wilde
“I want everyone to meet you. You’re my favorite person of all time.” – Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell
“Sometimes your nearness takes my breath away; and all the things I want to say can find no voice. Then, in silence, I can only hope my eyes will speak my heart”. – Robert Sexton
“I don’t care how hard being together is, nothing is worse than being apart.” – Starcrossed by Josephine Angelini
“I love you, not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you, not only for what you have made of yourself but for what you are making of me.” -Roy Croft
“And I’ve realized that the Beatles got it wrong. Love isn’t all we need—love is all there is.” –Second Chance Summer by Morgan Matson
“I have said nothing because there is nothing I can say that would describe how I feel as perfectly as you deserve it” – Kyle Schmidt
“I want you for always– days, years, eternities”. – Franz Schubert
“My love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, both are infinite”. – William Shakespeare
“I knew the second I met you that there was something about you I needed. Turns out it wasn’t something about you at all. It was just you.” — Beautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuire
“I love you — I am at rest with you — I have come home”. – Dorothy L. Sayers
“When you came, you were like red wine and honey, and the taste of you burnt my mouth with its sweetness”. – Amy Lowell
“Storm clouds may gather and stars may collide, but I love you, until the end of time”. – Moulin Rouge
“And if it all falls apart, I will know deep in my heart, the only dream that mattered had come true. In this life, I was loved by you”. – Colin Raye
“You have made a place in my heart where I thought there was no room for anything else. You have made flowers grow where I cultivated dust and stones.” -Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time
“I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun-warmed, flower-bordered path”. – Andre Gide
“Sometimes your nearness takes my breath away; and all the things I want to say can find no voice. Then, in silence, I can only hope my eyes will speak my heart… “– Robert Sexton
“If you live to be 100, I hope I live to be 100 minus one day, so I never have to live without you. ” -Ernest H. Shephard
“Come live with me and be my love, and we will some new pleasures prove, of golden sands, and crystal beaches, with silken lines and silver hooks”. – John Dunne
Remember to store these words in your heart and fine-tune them to be yours, well adapted for your woman before ever telling her. You don’t want to sound unimpressive and be caught on the other side. Love is hard work, right? But it is worth all the work.