Romance Novel Quotes

Do you plan on marrying Charles?”She shook her head.“Good. I wouldn’t want to shoot him, but I would.... Finding Promise

~ Scarlett Dunn

I've never met anyone as kind as you are, except me Mum, o' course. --Benjamin Trimmel to Lady Alexandra.

~ Lisa M. Prysock

I sincerely pity the poor man you marry. I doubt he’ll have a moment’s peace.

~ Heather King

I don’t want to talk about it,” she said. Once again he was close. Too close. So damn close. “At all,” she added, hearing with some alarm that her voice had softened. Everything had softened, at just his proximity. “Ever,” she whispered, and found her gaze locked on his mouth.He had a really great mouth.“I don’t want to talk, either,” that mouth said very seriously. And then he lowered his head and kissed her.

~ Jill Shalvis

She had no idea how long they kissed—and kissed—but she didn’t think about stopping until she ran out of air. Breathing hard, she slowly opened her eyes and stared directly into his.They’d heated. Darkened. And something else. He wasn’t looking so relaxed now. In fact, he was looking the opposite of relaxed. He looked…feral.And she was his prey.

~ Jill Shalvis

You’re through running from that sh*t. I get it now, I don’t like it, but I get it. You still have unfinished business that’s why they’re always on your mind. I hope you’ll get to the point where you stop running and start fighting back.

~ Jordan Silver

When did I start feeling so safe with him? I guess knowing that my friends wouldn’t set me up with some psycho criminal helps.

~ Rene Webb

Elsa's mother no longer spoke to her of men and love, but of duty and fate and accepting one’s burden. As far as Elsa could tell, if love really was the inherited female domain, then women were saddled with the biggest burden of all. It was pressing down upon them, the way the sea pressed down upon the creatures of the deep.

~ Kathy-Diane Leveille

You know, nice guys finish last, don't you?I guess I'll finish last.

~ Jalpa Williby

Be careful, if I didn't know better, I would think you're sounding jealous.Good thing you know better.

~ Jalpa Williby

There was just something about a Delta boy. Physically, they were as good as men came. But add the whole warrior, protector, save-the-world attitude. Yeah, it worked for her.

~ Cristin Harber

We need you to come home.

~ Cristin Harber

He walked right to her, his long strides eating the space between them and sucking the oxygen in front of her

~ Cristin Harber

Friendly fire was never friendly, and it was coming. Operation Stand-and-Watch was over. Did that mean Operation Bust-His-Balls was on deck?

~ Cristin Harber

I thought you were more like GI Joe, but now that I know about the cape, you sound more like Superman. Mia Kensington to Colby Winters

~ Cristin Harber

Two characters and sexy banter do not a book make, damn it.

~ Sherry Thomas

(The golden goose has died, my prince turned into a frog, the Kingdom is lost, everyone has turned into stone and I am locked in the tower)

~ Nancy B. Brewer

A single bead of water rolled along the length of his spine and glided down the powerful lines of his body. Mariel moistened her lips and watched its seductive descent, overwhelmed with the temptation to trace its path with the tip of her tongue.

~ Madeline Martin

I think you still love me,’ he says, ‘even though you don’t want to.’I glare at him, fury battling my instincts.‘Because that kind of love, Jessa,’ Kit continues, ‘doesn’t just disappear. It doesn’t just fade. I still love you. I’ll always love you. And I think you feel the same way about me. And hell, I know I don’t deserve it. I know all I deserve is your hatred. But if there’s a chance, a single chance that you might still love me, then I’m not going to throw it away. Because I’ve been through hell and you’re the only reason I’m still standing.’ He pauses. ‘So tell me the truth. Do you love him?

~ Mila Gray

There was no question to answer. He would rather die with er than live a single day more without her.

~ Jackie Williams

See, this is the thing.” He leans closer. “Me kissing you, you disappearing, that’s my nightmare.

~ Cristin Harber

I just want you, to be mine, forever. I want a piece of you no one else has ever had, and I want you to own my heart forever.

~ Ashley Beale

Daniel reaches out and grabs my hand to steady me. His skin is warm and soft, and holding his hand sends an electric sensation up my right arm. He holds my hand firmly until I regain my balance, which takes me a heartbeat longer than it should have.“Thanks for keeping me from falling,” I say. He smiles warmly. “Sometimes we just can’t stop ourselves from falling, cher.

~ Lisa Daily

He gently takes the lead, and I trail behind him up the narrow spiral stairway at the back of the kitchen. His hand is warm, and holding it feels like the easiest thing in the world. Too easy. I’m going to get myself in trouble.

~ Lisa Daily

He stares at me—taking me in—with his lips slightly parted. I struggle to hold myself in place as we gawk at each other. I want so desperately to run, but something is holding me back, keeping me in place.

~ Ashley Earley

She came downstairs like a doe stepping into a clearing on the first day of hunting season. I felt like a coward. I was lower than dirt. I had used every trick in my book to get her to come downstairs. I had manipulated her emotions, cheated and wormed to beat her at this game we were playing. But then I saw her, and I was so happy. I knew I would have burned the building down for the sight of her running toward me out of the flames.

~ Candice Raquel Lee