80 Best Valentine's Day Wishes to Write in All Your Cards

Do you remember buying boxes of pre-made valentines in elementary school to share with all your classmates? Those tiny notes with funny jokes and a piece of candy made Valentine’s Day so fun!

Even though we’ve graduated from pre-made valentines as adults, handwritten words of affirmation never go out of style. Rather than stressing about a last-minute Valentine's Day present, sometimes the best gift is to share a heartfelt message about how much your loved one means to you. Don’t worry if you aren’t good with expressing how you feel: These cute Valentine's Day jokes and romantic quotes make the perfect Valentine's messages.

Do you have a pet name, inside joke or funny story you love? Use it to really personalize your words to your one and only for an unforgettable Valentine’s Day. Whether you’re writing a love letter or a card, they will love hearing how much you adore them and how grateful you are to have them in your life.

• You are the song that my heart loves to sing.
• All that you are is all that I’ll ever need.
• Take my hand, take my whole life too, but I can't help falling in love with you.
• I love you, not just because of who you are, but for who I have become when I am with you.
• Life is better when I have you by my side.
• It’s been a journey … one I’d do all over again.
• You're my Wonder Woman/Superman.
• Every scar. Every flaw. Every imperfection. I love you.
• Every love song is about you. Happy Valentine's Day!
• I love that we've never lost the magic that makes us us.
• You're in all of my best memories.
• You give my heart peace. I love you so much.
• You’re my happily ever after.
• At the heart of it all, we’re friends. I love that, and I love you.
• Happy Valentine’s Day! My favorite place in the world is next to you.
• You may hold my hand for a while, but you hold my heart forever.
• Thank you for being mine.
• The best things in life are better with you.
• I never believed in luck until I found you.
• Whenever I'm with you, wherever we are, I'm home.
• Every love story is beautiful but ours is my favorite.
• You’re the one. I’ve never been so sure of anything in my whole life.
• I fell in love with you because of all the small things you don’t even realize you’re doing.
• Thank you for making me laugh and smile every single day since the day we met.
• Like you and me, some things are just meant to be.
• Here are all the ways I'm a better person because of you.

• Unlike the toilet paper, my love for you will never run out. Happy Valentine’s Day forever!
• You stole a pizza my heart! You saucy thing.
• There's no one in the world I'd rather have snoring like a freight train next to me.
• You're the best thing I've ever found on the internet.
• Every day I love you more (except for yesterday — yesterday you were really annoying me).
• Happy Valentine’s Day! Are you seriously not sick of me yet?
• I’m yours. Sorry, no refunds or exchanges.
• Happy V-Day! I got you this card. Now where's my medal?
• Hope your heart is full of love and your mouth is full of chocolate.
• I love you. But I like you a lot better after I've had my coffee.
• I’m so thankful to have found someone as weird as me.
• All I need in this life is you and me. Oh, and WiFi. And wine. And snacks. But that’s it, I swear.
• You have the worst taste in TV shows, and I’m still madly in love with you. That’s how you know it’s real.
• Besides cheese, you are my favorite.
• Know why I have a library card? Because I’m checkin’ you out.
• Are you a banana? Because I find you a-peel-ing.
• I love you because you're the person who annoys me the least.
• Happy Valentine's Day to the one person who's sweeter than Russel Stover.
• I know loving me isn’t always the easiest. But trust me, I’m worth it.
• Happy Valentine’s Day! Nothing says love like a piece of paper folded in half with some words on it.

• Happy Valentine’s Day! Thanks for being my person.
• To the person who makes me the best version of myself.
• Happy V-Day to the person who would help me hide a body.
• Our friendship is #relationshipgoals.
• Happy V-Day to the Bonnie to my Clyde.
• We’ve been friends for so long that we’re basically married. I now owe you a Valentine’s Day card every year.
• Making friends as a grown-up is hard. Thank you for making it easy.
• Good times. Bad Times. Fun Times. Tough times. No matter what, you’re always by my side.
• I love that you're my emergency contact.
• Don't eat too much chocolate today. Leave room for wine.
• Happy Galentine's Day to my bff.
• Friend love is the best kind of love. We’ll never break up because you refuse to pick up your socks.
• We go together like wine and any day of the week.
• Who needs a Valentine when I have a best friend like you?
• Happy Valentine’s Day! Just wanted to let you know that you are loved.

• "I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone." — Arwen in The Lord of the Rings
• "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." — Harry in When Harry Met Sally
• "To me, you are perfect." — Mark in Love Actually
• "I’m scared of walking out of this room and never feeling the rest of my whole life the way I feel when I’m with you." — Baby in Dirty Dancing
• "I want all of you, forever, you and me, every day." — Noah in The Notebook
• "I’ve come here with no expectations, only to profess now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is, and always will be, yours." — Edward in Sense and Sensibility
• "I am in love with you. I know that love is just a shout into the void and that oblivion is inevitable. And that we’re all doomed and that one day all of our labors will be returned to dust. And I know the sun will swallow the only Earth we will ever have. And I am in love with you." — Gus in The Fault in Our Stars
• "I think I’d miss you even if we’d never met." — Nick in The Wedding Date
• "You have bewitched me, body and soul. I love, I love, I love you. I never wish to be parted from you from this day on." — Mr. Darcy in Pride & Prejudice

• "When first we fall in love, we feel that we know all there is to know about life, and perhaps we are right." — Mignon McLaughlin
• "Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile." — Franklin P. Jones
• "Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love." — Leo Tolstoy
• "It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous, that you realize just how much you love them." — Agatha Christie
• "Much love, much trial, but what an utter desert is life without love." — Charles Darwin
• "I don’t want to live — I want to love first and live incidentally." — Zelda Fitzgerald
• "Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction." — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
• "Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps most fatal to true happiness." —Bertrand Russell
• "Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new." — Ursula K. Le Guin
• "When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too." — Paulo Coelho

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