Contemporary Romance Quotes

Get married because you can’t imagine another day without talking with that person, because that person makes your day sunnier. Don’t get married because you don’t want to be alone.

~ Lynne Silver

So you're saying your kissing me back was just a pity thing? Because it sure didn't feel that way to me.

~ Collette West

I told you. I don't do soft and gentle.

~ Collette West

Without you, I’m not me. Something inside that I didn’t even know about is broken without you.

~ Roxanne Snopek

It’s about showing someone you care for them, wanting them to care for you, doing things they like because you want them to be happy. Because their happiness makes you happy. That’s love, Dane. That’s how you’ll win…your daughter over.

~ Roxanne Snopek

Love comes in seemingly insignificant moments and if you’re not paying attention, you might miss them.

~ Roxanne Snopek

You need something more from me—something I wasn't able to give you before.

~ Collette West

Anything she might have said died in her throat at the sight of him. His black hair was disheveled, his morning stubble hypnotic, and the rakish way his shirt was undone at the throat and his tie hung in abandoned disarray beneath the collar, was just plain panty-melting.I’m not wearing any panties.

~ Christina Phillips

Once his life had been like this. He applied strength and determination to a messy problem until the stickiness went away, strands of sense formed and suddenly a hopeless mess was transformed into something beautiful, delectable, something everyone wanted.Now, no matter how hard he tried, no one wanted what he had to offer.

~ Roxanne Snopek

How did pretty little Anna go from Westchester suburb brat to New York hooker? Now that’s a story.

~ Stacey Trombley

I've heard this attributed to Calvin Coolidge. Behold the turtle. He never gets anywhere unless he sticks his neck out.

~ Mike Coyle

Elliot - Elliot waved absently, making a decision right then and there. He'd take the trip that Patrick offered. A cruise down Europe's most famous rivers couldn't be any more disruptive than home, after all.Alice -I stood up shaking the laptop at nothing. He made me think we were going to get married at the end of this trip! He had me look up the laws for Americans getting married in Budapest!Ball-hanging is too good for him. He serves something worse. Off with his head!I will take that trip! I yelled at the small living room filled with boxes that I had yet to unpack. And I will enjoy myself! A lot!

~ Katie Macalister

I have a hat for it, actually. Elliott made a vague gesture with one hand. Well, it's more of a full-body suit, really. Is that a euphemism for a condom? No. He marched past me and lay down on the bed. My mother knitted me a willy-warmer a few years back when we were having a cold stretch. She felt I wasn't like to produce the grandchildren she desires if I had as she put it, frost-shriveled parts.

~ Katie Macalister

Are you going to last if I start nibbling at your ankles and work my way up? No. You might make it to my knee, but only if I think about starving children and venereal warts.

~ Katie Macalister

The thought struck me, as I went about my daily ablutions, that Elliot had awfully nice hair for a man who’d take someone else’s ticket. It wasn’t long, but had a small curl to it that made you think about running your fingers through it. “Not that I have any intention of doing so ,” I told my reflection in the steam mirror. “Even if I was looking for a man, and I’m certainly not that stupid, he would be off the table. He’s friend to a rat bastard.” It was just a shame, too. How many bona fide lords does a girl meet? And how many of them have BBC voices, and nice faces, and curly hair that looks soft and silky and utterly gropeworthy?

~ Katie Macalister

I'm wondering why I thought it was a good idea to fill my purse with eggs.He blinked at me. I pulled a cold, flabby fried egg from mny bag, followed by its twin, holding them up so he could see. Eggs. You couldn't carry a packet of peanuts like a normal person? he asked. I smiled. I've never done normal particularly well....

~ Katie Macalister

I would totally support a pond scene like the one in PRIDE AND PREJUDICE, but only if you were stripped first. He slid her a glance out of the corner of his eye. She was giving him a lascivious grin that made him feel like singing at the top of his lungs. You have a smutty mind, Alice. It's one of the many things I admire in you. Unfortunately, we are in a holy place, and although I don't particularly hold strong religious feelings, I feel it would be insulting to the caretakers of this cathedral to give in to your lustful desires and engage in sex right her and now. He thought for a moment. Although I have to admit it is a tempting thought...

~ Katie Macalister

I don't know whether to be pleased that our lovemaking was of such a high quality that you immediately want more, or if it's an indication you are one of those sex-addicted people who are never satisfied.

~ Katie Macalister

...I was enjoying conducting highly charged sexual banter with you. As was I, although if we continue along that line, you're going to make it extremely painful for me to walk. Shall we cool down our libidos with a spot of crypt viewing?

~ Katie Macalister

I have nothing to make me feel good, except for you. The last thing I want to do is turn you into my new drug of choice.

~ Collette West

He gently sucked on my lower lip, biting it carefully with his teeth. It sent tingles all over my body and I had to hold on to his strong shoulders, firm under my fingers. I opened my mouth and tugged once on his lip ring. What happened next was the best sound I had ever heard before. He groaned so deeply that I couldn’t keep my answering moan quiet.

~ Stephanie Witter

Take a table and I’ll join you in a second.’’When he walked away I did something I couldn’t be scolded for doing.I checked out his ass in his jeans and…that looked good.

~ Stephanie Witter

Why are you looking at me like that?’’ he asked, his hand tensing for a second on my hip.“No reason.’’ I moved my hand up his chest and on the way his abs contracted.He pushed me away abruptly, forcing me to sit up with him. With the scruff hiding parts of his cheeks I wasn’t sure, but he seemed to be blushing. “You shouldn’t touch a man like that in the morning,’’ he rasped, his hand hiding his crotch.

~ Stephanie Witter

If a man can't love you for who you are, he's not worth The Dior Gloss.

~ Leah Marie Brown

She couldn't detach from him, couldn't catch her breath, and didn't want to. Not ever again.

~ Kristin Miller

You know,” she stammered, resenting the way her body reacted to his touch with fireworks and songbirds, “I kind of hate you sometimes.”“If that’s code for ‘I want to fuck you until I can’t walk straight’, then I kind of hate you, too.

~ Jennifer Bonds

I was falling back again and fast, or maybe I’d never stopped feeling something for him. And it was still hopeless, but at least, I could touch him a little bit.

~ Stephanie Witter

I had never had a big opinion for myself. I had always thought I'd be a fuck up, that I'd be disappointed like always by life and people. But at this very moment, I knew it. I wasn't a good man, not well-adjusted. —Nolan

~ Stephanie Witter

All I could think about was the heat of his soft lips, the way they fitted so wonderfully as I was coaxing him to open them some more, just enough to let my tongue slip in and taste him. I needed a taste, needed to complete this fantasy of mine.

~ Stephanie Witter

Don’t cry,’’ he breathed out so very close to my face. Just a little closer and I’d feel his lips ghosting against mine. “It’s like a punch in my guts when you cry.’’ “You shouldn’t touch me,’’ I said, but despite my words, I didn’t try to move away from his touch. A tear ran to my upper lip and I tasted it with the very tip of my tongue. Nolan’s eyes darkened when he followed it, not straying from my mouth. I could see goosebumps over his skin on his neck and on his forearms. “Nolan?

~ Stephanie Witter

Be myself. If only I remembered what it was like to be myself. I’m a fucking waitress in a crappy bar in a small town in the middle of nowhere. I was going nowhere. I had nothing to give him beside myself and my heart and he denied me.

~ Stephanie Witter

She shouldn’t be this close to Cole, not alone, not even when she was pissed beyond belief. It was too dangerous, since she had yet to find a cure for I-hate-you-but-I-want-to-fuck-your-brains-out-itis.

~ Jennifer Bonds

He brought his forehead against mine and we breathed the same air, slowly to try and find our composure. But it was impossible for me as long as he’s so close to me. “You’re ruining me.

~ Stephanie Witter

I said nothing in my texts. You came up with your own conclusions and you were mad thinking about me being with someone else…’’ “Stop,’’ he said, his jaw tightening. “Touching another man…’’ “Stop it.’’ “Sleeping…’’ He ran to me and grabbed my shoulders, shaking me once, not hard, but enough to make me stop. “Quit it,’’ he whispered, his voice deep and dark.

~ Stephanie Witter

He’d said he couldn’t let her go. She couldn’t figure out how they could stay together.

~ Alexia Adams

When you love someone, you're willing to give up damn near anything for them to be happy.

~ Jenna Rutland

Though in fairness, before tonight she wouldn't have known exactly how to classify them. Sorta childhood friends through her brother, turned business rivals who had absolutely incendiary chemistry when they let it loose, which was almost never. Yeah, that wasn't unclear at all... Sarcasm. Kady's second-favorite —asm.

~ Laura Kaye

I closed my eyes and immediately I pictured Brooklyn’s full lips parted on a moan, her eyes glassy and her pupils dilated, her cheeks flushed and her body…her smoking body bared only for me.

~ Stephanie Witter

A year ago, you fell into my arms and I felt some crazy connection to you. I'm sure as hell not good enough for you, and I'm sure as hell not making any promises, but I'm damn sure you were worth waiting for.

~ Victoria James

It was one thing to jack off. It was another thing to jack off and not secure your shit before you opened a goddamned door. That was like, Puberty 101. Or Being a Guy 101. Or Basic Fucking Common Sense 101.

~ Laura Kaye