Historical Romance Quotes

Any friend of my cousin's is a friend of mine, sir. How exactly do you know Lady Zoe?Before Tristan could answer, Zoe jumped in. We met at some party, did we not, Mr. Bonnaud?Yes. Tristan forced a smile. Clearly a very dull one, since neither of us can remember which one it was.

~ Sabrina Jeffries

How had things gone so terribly wrong? She wasn't supposed to be returning to Murdoch House in defeat, and she most certainly was not supposed to be returning alone.Lilly should be there. And Gideon. High-handed, muleheaded, wonderful Gideon. She'd never admitted it, not even to herself, but a part of her had expected him to come back to Murdoch House with her. Or perhaps it was more accurate to say that no part of her had been able to imagine going back without him.

~ Alissa Johnson

You like this darkness. You like learning me by feel.” Feeling very bold indeed, she nuzzled at him until she found his mouth with her own. “I like it too.

~ Grace Burrowes

Think of this- that the writer wrote alone, and the reader read alone, and they were alone with each other.

~ A.s. Byatt

I’ve told you before, ma chérie, love is not about submission. It is the willingness to give of yourself. That is a great power and gift, if you allow yourself to wield it.

~ Monica Burns

Simm watched the hanging with disgust. Why would the young man pretend to be a spy when he had no skills and no natural ability? As far as he could tell there had been no secret inks, no codes, and little effort to keep his movements secret. Maybe the world was better off without such fools; fledglings who fell out of the sky only to die on the ground.

~ Dory Codington

We shall not be indiscreet here in the broad light of day,” she said, but she’d left a question in the words when she’d intended a stern admonition.He smiled down at her. “Someday, Gillian, I will have you writhing and moaning in the broad light of day. Outdoors even.”“You’d get leaves in my hair.” She could afford the humor, because he was behaving.“Among other places, but then I’d help you remove them.

~ Grace Burrowes

It was a struggle to not fall in love with a man who was determined to be decent to her when what she sought was indulgence of her wanton nature.Her recently discovered, very frustrated wanton nature, damn him.

~ Grace Burrowes

I have never paid for fornication, and I don't intend to begin with you. When you come to me, and come to me you shall, you shall do so of your own accord and wholly free of all commerce and custom.

~ Hope C. Tarr

They should put their clothes on if they could find them which might be difficult in the darkness.He decided that could wait until dawn.

~ Shelly Thacker

He kept pushing her, expecting for her to break. Fearing it. But he was the one who splintered apart. He was the one who broke.

~ Amber Lin

The Girauds' child was looking more and more like a problem.Luke pressed his lips into a thin line. When she'd leaned in the stagecoach blazing with fervor over what was in the arcane books, it had taken all his willpower not to throw a bolt of magic to stop her heart.

~ Ann Gimpel

What have I done? he asked, his voice raw. You used to be such a sane, sensible lady.You took me on a journey into my own heart.

~ Shelly Thacker

I do not want to be a relative and passive being, anywhere. I want to live and love and write.

~ A.s. Byatt

And then you realize one day that you can't remember her scent and nothing smells like her anymore. You can't remember how she feels or the sound of her voice. You haven't thought of her every second of every day. Then--then you feel more alone than on the day you lost her.

~ Desiree Banks

The worst mistake I ever made has become the best thing I ever did.- Darius Wainwright

~ Jayne Fresina

There’s no scandal involved,” she said airily. “I have no connection with you whatsoever. I have nothing to do with you. You are a thimble filled with water next to my ocean. You are a grain of sand to my beach. You are a tiny star in the sky. You’re nothing to me.

~ Karen Ranney

Are you quite certain you won't mind having a virgin on your hands? Not that she imagined she would remain that way for much longer. The penis pressing against her seemed to say that her time as a virgin was down to mere minutes.

~ Hope C. Tarr

So she learned at the age of almost twenty-six how to kiss a lover. Such kisses involved tongues, lips, taste, feel, and soft, needy noises that had her pressing up into his body and wanting to consume him with her hands and her mouth.

~ Grace Burrowes

I live to bring you pleasure.” To Gilly, his words rang like a vow.

~ Grace Burrowes

Mercia wasn’t a little-in-love sort of man. He was mad, dark passion, sweeping emotion, and complete loss of reason, with his gaunt male beauty, his wealth and power, and his haunted past.

~ Grace Burrowes

He rose up like a languid god after devouring a bountiful feast.

~ Paula Quinn

So the Bawdy Bluestocking was the proprietress of her own shop, selling lurid novels to ladies in the front and more esoteric fare in the back, from the looks of the shelves around him. He spied Pope and Crabbe, Shakespeare, of course, and names he did not recognize at all. He wondered how she chose her stock and where it came from. She must spend her days in endless research. The thought was unaccountably lovely to him.

~ Evelyn Pryce

This was now officially the most inane conversation in which Griff had ever been a participant—and that included a drunken debate with Del over ostrich racing.“The color isn’t too awful?” She twisted a fold of the skirt. “The draper called it ‘dewy petal,’ but your mother said the shade was more of a ‘frosted berry.’ What do you say?”“I’m a man, Simms. Unless we’re discussing nipples, I don’t see the value in these distinctions.

~ Tessa Dare

You make me burn with life, and yearn to set aside my cold and distant, solitary ways.

~ Stacy Reid

Release Lady Mirabelle and the kitten or I’ll run you through, skewering your belly, pinching out your life.

~ Sue-Ellen Welfonder

You have not known very many men.I have no wish to know any others. I love this one.

~ Shelly Thacker

I would be anyone if only I could be with you.

~ Shelly Thacker

As he looked at her, she felt that flood of restlessness that she now knew was called desire.

~ Shelly Thacker

The softness of her touch, the emerald eyes gazing into his when they held hands and circled, attacked his defenses and flung them aside as if he were a helpless lad. If she'd come at him with a dagger, he might have let her stab him in the heart.

~ Amy Jarecki

She promised you'd get to shore in one piece.' Cheap said, 'and I won't make a liar out of her. But if you know what's good for you, you'll forget about that girl. Ask anyone on the coast. Or the Lord God himself. They'll tell you. Lucas Cheap sailed with the Brethren. He makes good ever on his threats.

~ Donna Thorland

Have you ever seen Russian nesting dolls?”Thrown by the questions, she opened her eyes. Why would he suddenly speak about a child’s toy? “I own a few of them.”“Then you must understand that undressing you is like playing with one of those dolls. I open one to find another beneath it. I took away your gown to find you are still as clothed as you were a moment ago and I wonder how many more layers I will have to work through to get down to you—the doll I’m searching for.

~ Dominique Eastwick

Hetty shivered. Goodness, he had no business looking at her like that. Physician my eye! Physicians definitely didn't look like him; they were short, round and adorned with wigs and spectacles.

~ Susan Lodge

Sparhawk had fallen into a nest of pirates.

~ Donna Thorland

There is not a man alive who would not want you.

~ Shelly Thacker

And then she fell into his arms. It was what he’d dreamed of on sleepless nights, holding her, feeling the press of her breasts to his chest, the flare of her hips in his hands. He forgot all about where they were, why they were alone together. He forgot the risk of his dishonor and her ruin. There was still a corrupt beast inside him, waiting for this chance. All that mattered was that they were alone, and she was with him, and he wished he never had to let her go.

~ Gayle Callen

Enya assessed him like a woman would a piece of fine cloth. Rugged land for a rugged man.

~ Amy Jarecki

I've tried to deny it even to myself...My heart and soul are filled with you.

~ Shelly Thacker

Ciara, there are certain things a man does not ask of a lady.You are not asking.Aye.

~ Shelly Thacker

His tongue tapped his top lip as he cupper her breast in his hand. Tis boidhche --beautiful.

~ Amy Jarecki