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Is it not a saying from Shakespeare?
Most people think of the famous line from Romeo and Juliet where she asks, "Wherefore art thou Romeo?" She's not asking where he is, she's asking why, of all the people out there, she had to fall in love with Romeo, her family's enemy. She talks about him renouncing his name and she her name so they can be together.


O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?
Deny thy father and refuse thy name.
Or if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love
And I’ll no longer be a Capulet.
‘Tis but thy name that is my enemy:
Thou art thyself, though not a Montague.
What’s Montague? It is nor hand nor foot
Nor arm nor face nor any other part
Belonging to a man. O be some other name.
What’s in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet;
So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call’d,
Retain that dear perfection which he owes
Without that title. Romeo, doff thy name,
And for that name, which is no part of thee,
Take all myself.
 
My friend's husband wrote her a love song, and I felt kind of bad explaining that "star crossed" meant ill-fated and not meant to be. He thought it was romantic because it came from Romeo and Juliet. They both died.
Prefer Hamlet if I’m forced to admit it.


Doubt thou the stars are fire
Doubt that the sun doth move
Doubt truth to be a liar
But never doubt I love.
 

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