“I fell in love with you. I didn't do it on purpose”

Source: Jazz

Laconics, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). A slightly different version is found in Brown's Works collected and published after his death. Compare: "Non amo te, Sabidi, nec possum dicere quare; Hoc tantum possum dicere, non amo te" (translation: "I do not love thee, Sabidius, nor can I say why; this only I can say, I do not love thee"), Martial, Epigram i. 33; "Je ne vous aime pas, Hylas; Je n'en saurois dire la cause, Je sais seulement une chose; C'est que je ne vous aime pas", Marquis de Bussy-Castelnau, Comte de Rabutin (1618–1693).
Source: See,Talk discussion

Epilogue “Reunion with Stony” (p. 313)
The Sirens of Titan (1959)

John Tyree, Prologue, p. 4
Source: 2000s, Dear John (2006)

Source: Summers at Castle Auburn

Source: The Lovely Bones

Of her ex-husband, Charlie Sheen
Red Book interview

Source: Lady Windermere's Fan