Relationships
21 TV Show Quotes About Love That’ll Put You In Your Feelings
One of the very best parts of watching TV is all the "shipping" that comes with your favorite on-screen couples. Nothing beats the satisfaction of watching the "ship" to come to fruition, especially when you've been waiting for it for years. Whether you want to get swept up in the escapism of a TV romance or you just love watching people fall in love, your favorite fictional couples — and the iconic TV show quotes about love that come from them — can teach you so many valuable lessons.
Maybe you won't get to travel through time to find your soulmate (cough, cough, Outlander) or fight evil monsters from the Upside Down with your high school sweetheart (looking at you, Stranger Things). There's a better chance you'll fall in love with a hot co-worker, school crush, or a best friend that was by your side all along. Still, even the most ridiculously drama-filled or supernatural TV shows can tug at your heartstrings like nothing else can.
Whether you're dreaming of being smitten in Pawnee, swooning on the Upper East Side, or squeezing in some time for romance at Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital, here are 21 TV show quotes about love that will put you in your feels.
1. When Hearing "I Love You" Means Everything
Three words. Eight letters. Say it and I’m yours.
— Blair Waldorf (Leighton Meester), Gossip Girl
2. When You Can Finally Be Comfortable Around Your Crush
It’s like you become more you. Which normally is like [mimes exploding] because the person, like, whoever, they chose to take all that on. All that weird stuff. But now it’s OK … whatever is wrong or bad or hiding in you, suddenly it’s alright. You don’t feel like such a freak anymore.
— Suzanne Warren (Uzo Aduba), Orange Is The New Black
3. When You *Know* Your Friend Has Found Their Soulmate
She's your lobster. Come on, you guys. It's a known fact that lobsters fall in love and mate for life. You can actually see old lobster couples, walking around their tank, you know, holding claws.
- Phoebe Buffay (Lisa Kudrow), Friends
4. When You Know You'll Never Get Bored In A Relationship
Life with you could never be boring.
— Chuck Bass (Ed Westwick), Gossip Girl
5. When Your SO Makes You Feel Soft & Sexy
Hate to see you leave, but love to watch you go. 'Cause of your butt.
— Michael Scott (Steve Carell), The Office
6. When You Finally Find The Love of Your Life
Don't you see? Don't you understand? You're the love of my life. I can't leave you.
— Derek Shepherd (Patrick Dempsey), Grey's Anatomy
7. When Everything Else Is Just Background Noise
She was what I paid attention to. Who I paid attention to. Everything else was just background.
— Piper Chapman (Taylor Schilling), Orange Is the New Black
8. When You Love Someone, Even Though It Doesn't Make Sense
Sit with me and watch me choose you. Watch me earn you.
— Fitz Grant (Tony Goldwyn), Scandal
9. When You Realize How Important Love Is
Love doesn't make sense. You can't logic your way into or out of it. Love is totally nonsensical. But we have to keep doing it, or else we're lost and love is dead and humanity should just pack it in. Because love is the best thing we do.
— Ted Mosby (Josh Radnor), How I Met Your Mother
10. When You Know Your Relationship Is Worth Fighting For
When you love someone, you just — you don't stop. Ever. Even when people roll their eyes or call you crazy. Even then. Especially then. You don't give up, because if I could give up... If I could just, you know, take the whole world's advice and move on and find someone else, that wouldn't be love. That would be... That would be some other disposable thing that is not worth fighting for. But that is not what this is.
— Ted Mosby (Josh Radnor), How I Met Your Mother
11. When That Fear Means You Have Something To Lose
I don't want you to date other people. I may not be enough for you, but I'm trying here, so I don't want you to date anybody but me. That's it. Except I'm scared as hell to want you. But here I am wanting you anyway. And the fear means I have something to lose, right? And I don't want to lose you.
— Meredith Grey (Ellen Pompeo), Grey's Anatomy
12. When You Know Love Is Risky, But You're Willing To Take It Anyway
No matter what happens, you gotta forget about all the other stuff. You gotta forget about logic and fear and doubt. You just gotta do everything you can to get to the one woman who's gonna make all this worth it. At the end of the day, you gotta jump.
— Jim Halpert (John Krasinski), The Office
13. When They're Your Lover & Your Best Friend
I love you and I like you.
— Leslie Knope (Amy Poehler), Parks and Recreation
14. When You Know You've Found The One
I don't love you because you're incredibly sexy. I love you because you're my best friend and I want to grow old with you. And right now, I am confused about every single thing in my life, except you.
— Jane Villanueva (Gina Rodriguez), Jane the Virgin
15. When You're Willing To Work Things Out
Tell me what you feel for me is real or if it’s just a game. If it’s real, we’ll figure it out, but if it’s not, then please just let me go.
- Blair Waldorf (Leighton Meester), Gossip Girl
16. When Forgiveness Is Key
I think that love, at the end of the day, is stronger than some mistakes somebody made.
— Fitz Grant (Tony Goldwyn), Scandal
17. When Your Friends Are Your IRL Couple Goals
I just love you two so much. Your love is something I aspire to. And I wish you all the happiness in the world, which is a really weird feeling because I don't usually wish happiness on other people.
- Petra Solano (Yael Grobglas), Jane the Virgin
18. When You're Ready To Grow With Your Partner
I'd rather have hope with you than certainty anywhere else.
— Queen Mary Stuart (Adelaide Kane), Reign
19. When You Can't Ignore Your Feelings Anymore
I love you. I’m in love with you. I have tried to kill it and run away from it, but I can’t and I don’t want to anymore.
— Blair Waldorf (Leighton Meester), Gossip Girl
20. When You're Excited To Tell Your Kids Your Love Story One Day
When you're a kid, you assume your parents are soulmates. My kids are gonna be right about that.
- Pam Beesly (Jenna Fischer), The Office
21. When Your Love Story Is The Best Love Story
I love the mother that you are. I love that you are still the most beautiful woman in any room and that you laugh with your entire face. I love that you dance funny, not sexy, which makes it even sexier, but most of all, I love that you are still the same woman who all those years ago ran out of a blind date because she simply had to sing. You're not just my great love story, Rebecca, you are my big break. And our love story? I know it may not feel like it right now, baby, but I promise you, it's just getting started.
— Jack Pearson (Milo Ventimiglia), This Is Us
From fairytale romances, to on-again, off-again flings, to the quest to win over your soulmate, these TV shows' quotes get to the heart of that complex, frustrating, liberating, heart-wrenching thing called love.
