“Every letter was a love letter. Of course, as love letters went, this one could have been better. It was not very promising, for instance, that Madeleine claimed not to want to see him for the next half-century.”
Source: The Marriage Plot
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Variant: Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.

“The greatest of love letters are always coded for the one and not the many.”
Source: House of Leaves
“If you must reread old love letters, better pick a room without mirrors.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

Banville on Saturday http://marksarvas.blogs.com/elegvar/2005/05/banville_on_sat.html, from The New York Review of Books (source dated 10 May 2005).

“The language of love letters is the same as suicide notes.”
Source: Dirty Blonde: The Diaries of Courtney Love