It's International Kissing Day today. I hope you are aware and will take advantage of this special day to give your loved ones some extra smooches.

International Kissing Day was established in 2006 to focus on the kissing that takes place between lovers, and to celebrate the place it holds in our society. Pucker up any chance you get, I say.

To celebrate this momentous day and get us in the mood, we are sharing some of our favourite kissing quotes from some of our favourite books. Literature is the perfect medium in which to talk about love. Books have a special place in our heart for introducing many of us to our first loves and our first romantic journeys. So, in light of that, we’ve picked out some of the most famous, beautifully written and romantic quotes from literature. Can you guess which books they are from? Let us know in the comments...

Quote 1: "He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God. So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning fork that had been struck upon a star. Then he kissed her. At his lips’ touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete."

Quote 2: “You should be kissed and often, and by someone who knows how.”

Quote 3: "You and I, it’s as though we have been taught to kiss in heaven and sent down to earth together, to see if we know what we were taught.”

Quote 4: "Then she was kissing him as she had never kissed him before...and it was blissful oblivion, better than firewhisky; she was the only real thing in the world.”

Quote 5: “What did I think I was doing? What did she think she was doing? When I want to kiss people in that way now, with mouths and tongues and all that, it's because I want other things too: sex, Friday nights at the cinema, company and conversation, fused networks of family and friends, Lemsips brought to me in bed when I am ill, a new pair of ears for my records and CDs, maybe a little boy called Jack and a little girl called Holly or Maisie, I haven't decided yet."

How many did you get? If this has really got you in the mood for reading a good ol' love story, here are a few of our recent reads that got our heart racing and in the mood for love.

Also do check out our section on the site dedicated to romantic fiction. There's plenty there to get your teeth stuck in to.