For the first time in book form, linguist Julie Neveux, an expert on the language of emotions, analyzes and deciphers our language of love.

"It's him!" "It's her!" "We've found each other!" "I love you!" "I'll always love you!"
Though our love stories are unique, we all use the same words. Our relationships may vary, but we share a vocabulary because our feelings are similar.
To illustrate her point, Julie Neveux turns to both famous words of love (of artists from Louis Aragon to Annie Ernaux) and those of characters she reinvents, like Romeo and Juliet, whose story is a through-line of the book, bringing its theories to life.
An essay on linguistics, an entertaining cultural study, and an analysis of our romantic relationships, this book is a treasure trove that can be devoured like a great love novel, full of wit and humor.