Becoming literate is emotional work. From the time we are born, we engage in multiple literacies, constructing new knowledge and powerful ideas that, together, bridge new understandings. With those new understandings, we are constantly being challenged and provoked with new information. The authors, two educators who have taught many students lifelong literacy skills and did not experience traditional teacher preparation in the teaching of reading or writing, ask, How do we build literacy culture centered in love within and across a school community? What is the emotive work, and how do we build it? Through unpacking the application and assessment of Gary Chapman's five love languages alongside collective, intraschool inquiry teams, loveful practices are parsed out, named, and demystified to build the kinds of relational trust that sustain adolescents' lifelong love of literacy.