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Welcome to This Awful/Awesome Life! My name is Frances Joyce. I am the publisher and editor of this magazine. We'll be exploring different topics each month to inform, entertain and inspire you. Meet new authors, sharpen your brain and pick up a few tips on life, love, entertaining and business. Enjoy and please share!

The February 2026 Quiz, "Love is a Two-Word Title" by Fran Joyce

February is the second month of the year, and Valentine’s Day falls on February 14. I decided to combine those two facts to create our February 2026 quiz. I’ve listed 14 quotes from love stories with two-word titles. How romantic are you? Do you remember the words of your favorite characters? This month’s task is to match the quote with the title and author. Who knew two words could inspire so much love? I hope these quotes inspire you to read or reread one or all of these incredible love stories. Good luck!

Answers can be found in the last article of this issue, “Next Month in This Awful Awesome Life – March 2026. Keep reading your way through this issue, or you can use this link to jump to the answers,

 https://www.thisawfulawesomelife.com/home/2026/2/7/next-month-in-this-awful-awesome-life-march-2026-by-fran-joyce

Titles and Authors:

The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks                 

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Maybe Someday by Colleen Hoover             

Love Story by Erich Segal

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen                 

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë                          

Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy                           

Book Lovers by Emily Henry               

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë               

Flirting Lessons Jasmine Guillory

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert           

Princess Daisy by Judith Krantz

 

Quotes:

1.     “All my heart is yours, sir: it belongs to you: And with you it would remain, were fate to exile the rest of me from your presence forever.” _______________________

2.       “’What the hell makes you so smart?’ I asked. ‘I wouldn’t go to coffee with you,’ she answered. ‘Listen – I wouldn’t ask you.’ ‘That,’ she replied, ‘is what makes you stupid.’” ______________________________

3.        “You are the answer to every prayer I’ve offered. You are a song, a dream, a whisper, and I don’t know how I could have lived without you for as long as I have.” ___________________________

4.       “Beware how you give your heart.” ______________________________

5.       “But that’s what taking risks was, right? Learning how to deal with it if you weren’t completely sure of the outcome.” _______________________________________

6.       “I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.” _________________________________

7.       “My heart made its choice, and it chose you.” _________________________________

8.       “I think… if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.” ___________________________________

9.       “Maybe love shouldn’t be built on a foundation of compromises, but maybe it can’t exist without them either. Not the kind the forces two people into shapes they don’t fit in, but the kind that loosens their grips, always leaves room to grow.” _________________________________

10.  “If he loved you with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn’t love you as much in eighty years as I could in a day.”  __________________________________________

11.  “Of all human sins, the only one Anabel really found unforgiveable was unkindness.”

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12.  “An infinity of passion can be contained in one minute, like a crowd in a small space.” __________________________________________

13.  “Every moment has its pleasures and its hope.” _________________________________________________

14.  “I have nothing to give but my heart so full and these empty hands.” ___________________________________________

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