Contemporary Romance Quotes

She felt damned. As though she were marching to her death. She felt like had been sentenced. And yet she felt eerily free.

~ Tan Redding

Their conversation was like root canal without anaesthesia.

~ Tan Redding

After two decades there she was, in front of him, almost within touching distance, not faded like in his dreams, but bright and clear and vividly real, looking comfortably, almost defiantly, the same as she always had and then everything she had never been.

~ Tan Redding

I will never intentionally ask you for anything that you aren’t willing to give. But if I do, you can always say no.” He lets that sink in for a moment. “But you won’t.

~ D.l. Hess

The male tax?”“Yeah. The tax that men have to pay for not having to menstruate every month. Or risk getting pregnant. Or deal with the physically stronger sex in a macho world… Women have to put up with all that stuff, so the least we men can do is pay the male tax and get the tab.

~ Zack Love

If it was possible for two people to make sparks, simply by connecting at their lips, I would think we would have been a firework display in the dark.

~ Kristen Hope Mazzola

…she was afraid of how he made her feel, because he made her feel way too much

~ Justine Dell

Her heart unfolded in her chest, took in all of him, and closed tightly, unwilling to let him go

~ Justine Dell

Hey, you’re the one who can’t stand me being so close to you.

~ Justine Dell

She loved this man. This wonderful, respectiful, willful man. And she couldn’t even tell him.

~ Justine Dell

What’s bothering me is you always seem ready to snap my head off my shoulders and I’m not comfortable with that.

~ Justine Dell

His presence was stirring heat in all the wrong places and for all the wrong reasons.

~ Justine Dell

Be careful who you choose as your friends because their bad habits can become your bad habits. Choose wisely...we all have a choice in life.

~ Mimi Jenkins

There was something wild beneath the surface that his suit couldn't hide. He had the cocky arrogance of a man who broke the rules with impunity. A man who feared nothing. A very, very dangerous man.

~ Sarah Castille

You said my name and my heart went rogue

~ Zandile

Then, the door opens and there he is; silhouetted in the hall light. Long hair, long legs, and a heartbeat in tune with my own.

~ Hunter S. Jones

With one perfect kiss on one perfect English summer afternoon, we understand the meaning of all the colors of every rainbow, forevermore.

~ Hunter S. Jones

We all have scars. Just because mine are hidden doesn’t make them any less painful.

~ Nicki Salcedo

It’d been a long time since they’d been together, but as close as they were physically, they’d never been so far apart in every other way.

~ Jennifer Faye

Miz Ellen, what do you carry in that handbag of yours that has enough wallop to knock down a full-grown man? - Dan Landry

~ Jane Rainwater

While I stood on the front porch, watching him climb into his vehicle, I breathed in the humid air. I looked at the cloudless sky, and the blue vastness of it made me think about the endless opportunities that lay ahead for me. Life, I knew, was going to be different now… better. I was going to live for today and for the future. Dear past… thank you for the lessons. Dear future… I am ready.

~ Debra Kay

Charlee has my arm. She has my arm—my arm that’s rigid from pleasure, from her touch—in her little fingers. She holds my other one, too and she’s right there, that sweet candy perfume stripping the rest of the strength from my body, and it escapes in a soft, breathy sigh.

~ Rebecca Berto

You know there’s this gaping space between us, and if I leaned forward I’d grab Dex’s shirt without ever touching him. You know there’s a three-inch-thick glass wall separating us.Now we know, too.

~ Rebecca Berto

Being a single parent on a part-time basis is tricky to navigate. That is what a racing widow has to do.

~ Aly Grady

You want me to paint you?’ Genna spoke up raising an eyebrow of displeasure.‘All of me.’ James bowed his head to Genevieve and whispered the words slowly.

~ Tan Redding

You didn't judge my past. That's when I knew I couldn't turn away from you even if I tried...

~ E.l. Montes

The morning I drove by and saw you alone, staring at the house. I told myself to keep on driving, but something told me to stop. And when I'd seen how lost and confused you were, something told me I was meant to be there....I was meant to be there so I could help you find your way

~ E.l. Montes

The road was so dimly lighted.There we;re no highway signs to guide.But they made up their minds,If all roads were blind,They wouldn't give up 'til they died....

~ Amy Harmon

Abstract conversations are my favourite, for they unviel true convictions.

~ Parul Wadhwa

He tilted my head up with his index finger. Tingles spread on my skin. Pain, obstacles, betrayal and all shitty things that happen in life shape everyone, just as much as good things do. Don't regret anything if in the end you can say you're an amazing woman.

~ Stephanie Witter

He nibbled on my lower lip again and pulled away, his breathing loud and labored. I opened my eyes and met two blue orbs so dark with desire that it almost made me lose all train of thought and strip naked. His lips were red and a little swollen from our kiss. And I'd be damned if I didn't want to nibble on his lower lip, too.

~ Stephanie Witter

Pain of the past never goes away, you just find a way to deal with it. And in the future....... all the promise it holds.... that's what keeps you moving forward, and out of the darkness.

~ Samantha Towle

He gave me the one thing he's never given to anyone before..He gave me his heart, and his trust.And in return, I gave him the same right back....

~ Samantha Towle

He hadn’t saved her. He hadn’t even bothered trying.

~ Tan Redding

He would only be here one more night.And then back on deployment, whispered the dark part of my soul. He might never come back. You might be the last woman he ever has.

~ Sofia Grey

His mother was as frosty as the polar icecaps. His sister was gone. Who did he have that cared about him? Who would remind him that he mattered?

~ Sofia Grey

Was it really just an hour ago that he’d licked me into nirvana at the top of the hill? We’d been buying condoms and planning an afternoon of hot sex, and now we were on a witch-hunt. Seeking retribution. Out for blood.

~ Sofia Grey

Icy fingers walked down my spine, and I realized I was trembling. I wanted this to stop. Wanted Jas to stop before he made this whole situation a million times worse, but I couldn’t speak.

~ Sofia Grey

When we share in each other's grief and pain, we lighten it. Or maybe we just give each other permission to feel it fully and, through that act of acceptance, the grief becomes more bearable. Because, like the rain, tears too have an end. And with deep emotions, we are open to each other in unexpected ways.

~ Karpov Kinrade

LAST YEAR, Honesty and I still talked, Laughed, Planned weekend activities together. Last year, I used to have friends, Speak, Live. Last year, Honesty lived, Loved, Laughed. But now— Now I live with the knowledge that Some things Kill others

~ Elana Johnson