Valentine's Day is just under a week away and we all know what that means: roses, chocolates and an overexposure to human emotions. If you're anything like me and are an introverted romantic who would prefer to avoid the PDA-filled streets this Feb. 14, I have the perfect way to get a great dose of romance without even leaving your room: Read. That's right, some of the most romantic moments ever recorded are hidden in the pages of a great book. No actual human interaction required. So, here are 15 times literature was better than any significant other.

1. "You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April. tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged; but one word from you will silence me on that subject forever."

-Jane Austen, "Pride and Prejudice"

2. "You have been the last dream of my soul."

-Charles Dickens, "A Tale of Two Cities"

3. "I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity and her flaming self-respect. And it's these things I'd believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn't all she should be."

-F. Scott Fitzgerald, "Letter to Isabelle Amorous"

4. "Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only."

-Victor Hugo, "Les Miserables"

5. "Often a man wishes to be alone and a girl wishes to be alone, too, and if they love each other, they are jealous of that in each other, but I can truly say we never felt that. We could feel alone when we were together, alone against the others. But we were never lonely and never afraid when we were together."

-Ernest Hemingway, "A Farewell to Arms"

6. "Always."

JK Rowling, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows"

7. "And it is you, spirit—with will and energy, and virtue and purity—that I want: not alone your brittle frame. Of yourself you could come with soft flight and nestle against my heart, if you would: seized against your will, you will elude the grasp like an essence—you will vanish ere I inhale your fragrance."

-Charlotte Bronte, "Jane Eyre"

8. "It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you."

-John Green, "The Fault in Our Stars"

9. "If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day."

-Emily Bronte, "Wuthering Heights"

10. "You should be kissed and often, and by someone who knows how."

-Margaret Mitchell, "Gone With The Wind"

11. "There is no room in my body for anything but you. My arms love you, my ears adore you, my knees shake with blind affection."

-William Goldman, "The Princess Bride"

12. "For she had eyes and chose me."

-William Shakespeare, "Othello"

13. "It was you I thought of all the time, I gave to them the love you did not need: lavished on them a love that was not theirs."

-Oscar Wilde, "A Woman of No Importance"

14. "And she kissed me. And it was the kind of kiss that I could never tell my friends about out loud. It was the kind of kiss that made me know that I was never so happy in my whole life."

-Stephen Chbosky, "The Perks of Being a Wallflower"

15. "Just in case you ever foolishly forget, I am never not thinking of you."

-Virginia Woolf, "Selected Diaries"

Hopefully this list broke your heart into a ton of tiny decoupage pieces and inspired you to buy a box of those cardboard valentines to at least hand out to your friends. If not, here's a fun fact: 53 percent of these quotes were written by men. Shout out to the sensitive guys and breaking social norms. Happy Valentine's Day!