You're trying not to tell him you love him, and you're trying to choke down the feeling, and you're trembling, but he reaches over and he touches you, like a prayer for which no words exist, and you feel your heart taking root in your body, like you've discovered something you don't even have a name for. Richard Siken
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The quote above is thought to be a quote from the movie, 10 Things I Hate About You. In the movie, Heath Ledger and Joseph Gordon-Levitt play the characters who are in love with each other. As they fall in love, it is clear that they both want to tell each other how they feel. However, it is also clear that neither of them wants to say the words out loud for fear of losing the other.

It is only when they say the words out loud do they realize how deeply they feel about each other. The quote above conveys this feeling of love perfectly.

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