Romance Quotes

After you leftI stared at the drivewayFeeling its emptinessWondering if you’d return.After you leftI thought about your questionsWishing I hadn’t been so bluntWondering if I scared you away.After you leftI remembered how you felt in my arms.How you fit so perfectly there. Like my guitar.Wondering if I should have kissed you when I had the chance.After you leftI sat in my roomRemembering all the things you said, andWondering about all the things you didn’t.After you leftI sat in silence.Missing you in a way I didn’t quite understand.Wondering if you’d ever come back.

~ Tamara Ireland Stone

I love you too much to lose you over something so little. “Roommates With Benefits.

~ Nicole Williams

Because when I kiss you, I want yours to be the first... and last lips I ever kiss.

~ Renee Ahdieh

You deserve someone who will feel you at her side without needing to see you. And I've only felt that way about one boy.

~ Renee Ahdieh

To describe a kiss is to describe a diary entry or a pair of underwear—each is personal and private, slightly awkward. Very awkward. But necessary.

~ Caroline George

And if he was kind and friendly and funny, and if he told you about places so beautiful that you wanted to go with him to see them, and if he listened to you talk like he actually cared about what you were saying? And if he tried to protect you when other people tried to tell you what to do, as if they owned you? And if he has the handsomest face you've ever seen, no matter if the skin has been damaged, because he's just lovely even so?

~ Caroline Leech

A Time Comes When Silence is Betrayal.

~ P.j. Parker

Thunderbird ascended on the heady currents of air that bore her high above the vast landscape of Túwaqachi. She stretched her broad wings, the heat lifting her through the silence, her glossy brown feathers shimmering in the sunlight.

~ P.j. Parker

The early morning sunshine shot up the ice-covered valley. It glinted off the backs of slumbering mastodon, reflected between the antlers of caribou.

~ P.j. Parker

For whom do you cry, my son?” the Great Spirit asked.“I do not know.”“Yes, you do.

~ P.j. Parker

This is a time of change,” the Shaman said. “This is a time of enormous power.

~ P.j. Parker

We must treat with respect our world and all upon it. Túwaqachi is not inherited from our ancestors, it has been loaned to us by our children.

~ P.j. Parker

Do you understand the meaning of the soil beneath your feet?

~ P.j. Parker

The Sun Dagger appeared on the rock face directly above the Shaman’s shadowed head. It dazzled within the shade as the sunlight slipped through a gap in the overhead slabs. The dagger cut slowly down the rock, slicing through the very center of the etched spiral. “The middle of time,” Chaco whispered to himself.

~ P.j. Parker

The other Clans will soon arrive. The greatest times of our family are before us. And so are the darkest.

~ P.j. Parker

One large cat bounded up the side of the outcrop to stand in full view on an overhanging boulder. She stared down at them, inside their protective enclosure, tilting her head from side to side. Her scarred yellow-brown coat was immaculately groomed, but the long tufting hair of her snout was matted with the bright red smear of uncongealed blood from a recent kill. Her upper lip curved over the top of foot-long saber teeth.

~ P.j. Parker

We the People . . . The People of the Long House.

~ P.j. Parker

The Day of Trouble is Near

~ P.j. Parker

We must love our slaves, Papa. We must love them as hard as we are able.

~ P.j. Parker

West Point—The Key to the Continent and Independence.

~ P.j. Parker

No words in our ledgers could do justice to this sublime beauty,” Captain Lewis said. “The expedition should have brought a camera obscura.”Peter wasn’t familiar with the words, but no matter. He knew he was part of something magnificent—something greater than himself or the Corps of Discovery. And he knew what it was. It was America. And it was beautiful.

~ P.j. Parker

I refuse to believe the people of Texas and all Americans in the world have forgotten us.

~ P.j. Parker

Do not fret, my brother, my child. For the buffalo will roam the plains once more.

~ P.j. Parker

We live in a complicated society, Bromley—one that is changing and which does indeed need to change. But do you not think any change must begin within our own family gathering?

~ P.j. Parker

Rainbow Cloud strode forward like a hunting cat with the same strength of height and broad shoulders, the same rolling gait as First Light’s father. They were indeed the same man, split in two at birth, so the family might be rewarded by twice the skill in hunting each brother possessed.

~ P.j. Parker

The Sleepin’ Fox Catches No Poultry.

~ P.j. Parker

There were no stars, only the darkness and an arctic chill that had intensified since the first thin, blood-red stripes of sunrise shimmered on the ocean’s horizon.

~ P.j. Parker

Cameron, my heart is quite literally in this

~ Victoria Aveyard

His hands still on his shoulders. “Hi,” he says. “Sorry.” “For what?” “For the fact that you are such a big flirt.” He laughs. “You’re the one in my lap. I was just sitting here minding my own business.” “Just the plane, then?” “Of course.” I try to stand up, but he pulls me back down again. “Man, the plane is really bumpy today,” he says.

~ Kasie West

Hearsay, even from the people I love, doesn't equate to gospel truth.

~ Katie Mcgarry

Have you thought of doing it? Being a cattle farmer? If that's what it's called? I think we should do that, but replace cattle with bunnies and then we don't milk or eat the bunnies. We just let them multiply. Then we'll take over the world. Me the queen. You the king. Our bunnies the army nobody can defeat.

~ Katie Mcgarry

We were perfectly placed, perfectly disposed to one another. Our pieces fit so well together, not in the way that puzzle pieces are carved to click, but in a clumsier, more accidental way; we were a city skyline – unplanned architectural mastery. Designed by the heavens, and you called me your angel – even when I was undeserving of that accolade. You’d call yourself the devil and I’d feel betrayed. Because for me, we were the same, either two sinners or two saints.

~ B.a. Perry

The trouble was, I did know what I wanted from Grace Towne. I wanted to sleep with her, sure. I wanted her to be my girlfriend. A few years from now, I wanted to marry her. And then, when we were old, I wanted to drink peppermint tea and read Harry Potter to our grandchildren with her on the veranda of an old house out in the countryside as we watched a summer storm roll toward us. Was that so much to ask?

~ Krystal Sutherland

This typewriter is the only one that has listened to me throughout the years, the only one who wants to know the girl beneath my layers.

~ Tessa Emily Hall

Growing up and seeing your parents' flaws is like losing your religion. I don't believe in God anymore. I don't believe in my father either.

~ Nicola Yoon

I kiss him to get him to stop talking. If he keeps talking I will love him, and I don't want to love him. I really don't. As strategies go, it's not my finest. Kissing is just another way of talking except without the words.

~ Nicola Yoon

There are so many unknowns, and so many possibilities. Sometimes there are things you can say, and talking makes it better. But sometimes, there are no words.

~ E. Katherine Kottaras

An uneventful, quiet life together is more my idea of a romance.”“Really? Oh. Well. It won't get you featured in any of the ballads though.”“Yes,” he said, with a heavy sigh. “And that will be the great tragedy of my romance.

~ Sonal Panse

That's the thing about distance: It either gives you time to move on form someone, or it makes you realize just how much you need them.

~ Estelle Maskame

Is there a difference between loving someone and being in love with someone?

~ Estelle Maskame