Contemporary Romance Quotes

What do I look like? A blonde rolodex for boys who've lost an archery match with cupid?

~ Jenn Cooksey

Art was my little private pleasure. Nobody had seen my art, not even my parents. Andy didn't know about it. My dream was to become a publisher, not an artist lost in New York.

~ Stephanie Witter

No, it's okay. It was just … weird. No one has ever called me hot before.”“Really?” Trace frowned. “Well, that changes right now.” He ceased walking, stopping in the dead center of the pathway and reached for my hands. “Jade Cannon, you are totally hot!” Trace announced loudly, and people nearby stopped to stare at us after his outburst. I couldn't help but laugh.

~ Chelsea Lynn Charters

... he's most probably in a closet so deep he's, like, in Narnia.

~ K.a. Merikan

He licked up to her ear and whispered, “You taste like summer. Did I ever mention, summer is my favorite season?

~ Heather Thurmeier

Not planned... Hoped for maybe, but not planned. I’m a guy. I pretty much always think sex might be an option.

~ Heather Thurmeier

What better time to be kind to a beautiful stranger than when she’s weak, and rocking a schnoz like the Godfather?

~ Leslea Tash

The first sign that Karma was now in cahoots with the Devil Incarnate to ruin her existance should've been before sunrise and pre-coffee.

~ Kelly Moran

He shifted his attention back to me and leaned in closer. “I told you to behave. I don’t want to have to arrest you ever again.”“Um . . . okay.”I felt him slide something under my hand. He leaned in even closer, his mouth by my ear, and whispered, “Although I wouldn’t mind handcuffing you.”Oh. My. God.

~ Robyn Peterman

I’ve always seen you, angel. From the moment you found me, I’ve seen nothing but you.

~ Sylvia Day

Oh, Eva. He rubbed his cheek against my damp face. I must've wished for you so hard and so often you had no choice but to come true.

~ Sylvia Day

It was like the Justice League of Super Heroes but instead it was the Justice League of Hot Guys.

~ Kristen Ashley

Are you sleeping with anyone?” The question was asked so casually it took a second to process what he’d said. I inhaled sharply. “Why is that any business of yours?” He looked at me and I saw what I’d seen the first time we’d met—tremendous power and steely control. Both of which had me taking an involuntary step back. Again. At least I didn’t fall this time; I was making progress. “Because I want to fuck you, Eva. I need to know what’s standing in my way, if anything.

~ Sylvia Day

I want there to be happily-ever-afters for the fucked-up crowd. Show me the way, Eva honey. Make me believe.

~ Sylvia Day

He was the kind of guy that made a woman want to rip his shirt open and watch the buttons scatter along with her inhibitions.

~ Sylvia Day

You forget who submits, Eva,” he said gruffly. “I’ve given up control for you. I’ve bent and adjusted for you. I’ll do anything to keep you and make you happy. But I can’t be tamed or topped. Don’t mistake indulgence for weakness.

~ Sylvia Day

It's probably best for me to work off some energy before I get you naked. I'm sure you'd like to be able to walk tomorrow.

~ Sylvia Day

I can't go long without you either, Eva. You're an addiction...my obsession...

~ Sylvia Day

Whatever this shit is between us it’s always been there and it’s always gonna be there. I’m shit-fuckin’-tired tryin’ to ignore it. I’ll try to do right by you Eva, you’d be the first, but I’ll fuckin’ try my damndest. And baby, true freedom is the open road, the wind on your face and a good woman on the back of your bike holdin’ you tight like you’re her reason for breathin’ because she sure as fuck is yours.

~ Madeline Sheehan

Everybody's crooked. The trick is to find out how they're bent.

~ Jennifer Crusie

I believe in fate and I believe you were supposed to walk into my life, so Mason could walk into yours.

~ Ella Frank

That's a movie quote, right? You know, if you do that with books, people think you're intelligent.Sophie lowered her chin. If this is your pathetic attempt to seduce me again, you're falling miserably. I don't seduce woman. Phin shoved back his chair and stood up. They fall into my open arms.Clumsy of them.

~ Jennifer Crusie

He paused leaning over to lay his lips on hers, “It’s time to feel again. Let me save you from yourself. You were drowning when I found you, but I’m not letting you go, not without a fight.” He kissed her sweetly and moved back standing up and over her. Lena looked up at his out stretched hand.“Take my hand Lena.” He offered and she knew he meant it in a way that went far beyond offering to help her stand.

~ Ella Frank

Be yourself. Unless you can be a unicorn, In that case, you should always be a unicorn.

~ Elle Lothlorien

Dempseys are never in trouble. We just have stretches of life that are more interesting than others.

~ Jennifer Crusie

I want you. Am I supposed to walk away because you're a man? Maybe. They'll say yes for sure. But I'm sick of all the questions running around in my head. Tate stopped and licked his lips. I want the man who sat down across from me and changed the way I look at the world. And if that's wrong, then I'm confused because when I'm near you, it feels so damn right.

~ Ella Frank

You are my heart now. Whatever happens to you happens to me.

~ Faith Sullivan

By the time I'm through sweeping you off your feet, you will be bursting at the seams, begging me to fuck you, never wanting another man inside you again.

~ T.k. Leigh

Very few people mate for life with the people they fall for at twelve. Doesn't mean is isn't real, doesn't mean it doesn't hurt, doesn't mean it doesn't matter, but basically, we're talking a practice swing in the big game of love.

~ Jennifer Crusie

Sometimes the clouds weren’t weightless. Sometimes their bellies got dark and full. It was life. It happened. It didn’t mean it wasn’t scary, or that I wasn’t still afraid, but now I knew that as long as I was standing under it with Braden beside me when those clouds broke, I’d be alright.

~ Samantha Young

I loved the way he kissed me, as if he had to, as if he'd go crazy if he didn't and had nearly waited too long.

~ Sylvia Day

B.O.B. and I have a longtime understanding - when we're done with each other, we know exactly which one of us has been used, and it isn't me. Good night Gideon.

~ Sylvia Day

Romance isn't in my repertoire, Eva. But a thousand ways to make you come are. Let me show you.

~ Sylvia Day

I love you, Gideon.”“God.” He looked at me with something that resembled disgust. Whether it was directed at me or himself, I didn’t know. “How can you say that?”“Because it’s the truth.”“You just see this”—he gestured at himself with a wave of his hand. “You’re not seeing the fucked-up, broken mess inside.”I inhaled sharply. “You can say that to me? When you know I’m fucked up and broken, too?

~ Sylvia Day

You definitely have the voice for phone sex, but I've got to go. I have a date with my vibrator.Oh, Eva. Cross spoke my name in a decadent purr. You're determined to drive me to my knees, aren't you? What will it take to talk you into a threesome with B.O.B.

~ Sylvia Day

Sex that's planned like a business transaction is a turnoff for me..... Listen to yourself. Why even call it a fuck? Why not be clear and call it a seminal emission in a pre-approved orifice? (Eva to Gideon)

~ Sylvia Day

Don't. Tell me when, then. And before you say never, take a good look at me and tell me if you see a man who's easily deterred.

~ Sylvia Day

I had never seen hair that purely black. It was glossy and slightly long, the ends drifting over his collar. That sexy length was the crowning touch of bad boy hotness over the successful businessman, like whipped cream topping on a hot fudge brownie sundae. As my mother would say, only rogues and raiders had hair like that. (Eva about Gideon)

~ Sylvia Day

Don't you dare touch yourself today. I want your orgasm and I plan on getting it later.

~ T.k. Leigh

There is something immensely scary about putting yourself out there for people to love or hate you, fan or pan you, review or screw you.

~ L.v. Lewis