Romance Quotes

A lot of men wouldn't like being called a romantic. It's not macho enough.'Quite often men are fools.

~ P.c. Cast

If I weren't standing next to your boyfriend, I'd be tempted to ask you out myself.She blushes, and St. Clair bounds inside the box office and wrestles her into a hug. Miiiiiiiiine! he says.Cut it out. Anna pushes him off, laughing. You'll get fired. And then I'll have to support your sorry arse for the rest of our lives.

~ Stephanie Perkins

Hugh and I have been together for so long that in order to arouse extraordinary passion, we need to engage in physical combat. Once, he hit me on the back of the head with a broken wineglass, and I fell to the floor pretending to be unconscious. That was romantic, or would have been had he rushed to my side rather than stepping over my body to fetch the dustpan.

~ David Sedaris

She'd secretly had a crush on him since they were twelve years old. Last summer, she'd fallen for him hard.

~ Rick Riordan

In our twenties, when there is still so much time ahead of us, time that seems ample for a hundred indecisions, for a hundred visions and revisions—we draw a card, and we must decide right then and there whether to keep that card and discard the next, or discard the first card and keep the second. And before we know it, the deck has been played out and the decisions we have just made will shape our lives for decades to come.

~ Amor Towles

Plan B?' Ivy said. 'What is plan B?'Jenks reddened. 'Grab the fish and run like hell,' he muttered, and I almost giggled.

~ Kim Harrison

Women were supposed to be the enigmas, but men? Moody, brooding bastards, the lot of them. A woman with PMS had nothing on a man. Where women might get hormonal once a month, men suffered their own brand of PMS on a daily basis. - Faith

~ Maya Banks

I have fallen in love with you, and there is no future for us. That you burst into my life suddenly only a short time ago. That it's too fast, too soon, and you will leave the same way you came into my life. I'll turn around one day and you'll be gone.

~ Rachel Gibson

Having sex multiple times on the first sleepover does not count as more than one “date”…

~ Rowena Cherry

Vampires. Honestly, they're like children sometimes.

~ Richelle Mead

When would he learn that women never stayed where you put them?

~ Maya Banks

He shook his head. The next time I hear a women going on about how neurotic men are, I'm going to remember this. You tell me you like my body, and what do I say? I say, thank you. Then I tell you I like yours and what do I hear? A long lists of grievances.

~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips

There is darkness in light, there is pain in joy, and there are thorns on the rose.

~ Cate Tiernan

I knew from the moment I heard you, the moment I saw the gun and realized that this lovely, petit woman was the executioner, that you would never die waiting for me to save you - that you would save yourself.

~ Laurell K. Hamilton

Good men are often more practical than pretty said Mother. Andrius just happens to be both.

~ Ruta Sepetys

The more a person pushes others away, the clearer it becomes he is in need of love the most.

~ Renee Ahdieh

Come on, it’s an American tradition. Apple soup? Mom’s homemade chicken pie?' She chuckled in spite of herself, then winced. 'It’s apple pie and Mom’s homemade chicken soup. But you didn’t do badly, for a start.

~ L.j. Smith

Yeah, tell me I’m a bottle of single malt scotch, she thought. That’s the way to my heart.

~ L.j. Smith

Listen, I'm bossy. I can't help it. It's who I am and what I do. I'm pushy and I like to take over. But I'm going to work really hard not to do so much and your going to try and accept me the way I am. Flaws and all. Because I'm good in bed and I can carry heavy things and reach all the high shelves.

~ Lauren Dane

He shrank from hearing Margaret's very name mentioned; he, while he blamed her – while he was jealous of her – while he renounced her – he loved her sorely, in spite of himself.

~ Elizabeth Gaskell

She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.

~ Jane Austen

If you love Alex now, then love him forever. Make him laugh again, and cherish the time you spend together. Take walks and ride your bikes, curl up on the couch and watch movies beneath a blanket. Make him breakfast, but don't spoil him. Let him make breakfast for you as well, so he can show you he thinks you're special. Kiss him and make love to him and consider yourself lucky for having met him, for he's the kind of man who'll prove you right.

~ Nicholas Sparks

...He kissed me again, farther up my neck, and I pushed him back against the wall.My mind searched for the logical thought, a rational life raft before I drowned in wanting to hiss him. I managed, We've only met a few days ago. We don't know each other.Luke released me. How long does it take to know someone?I didn't know. A month? A few months? It sounded stupid to quantify it, especially when I didn't want to believe my own reasoning. But I couldn't just go kissing someone I knew nothing about-- it went against everything I'd ever been told. So why was it so hard to say no?He took my fingers, playing with them in between his own. I'll wait. He looked so good in the half-light under the trees, his light eyes nearly glowing against his shadowed skin. It was useless.I don't want you to. I whispered the words, and before I'd even finished saying them, his mouth was on mine and I was melting under his lips.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

I been watchin' you, workin day and night, slavin so hard you barely have time to catch your breath. People do that for three reasons. Either they crazy, or stupid, or tryin' to forget.

~ Nicholas Sparks

It's time, Perry. He let her go. She took a step back, taking in his face one last time. His green eyes. The bend in his nose and the scars on his cheek. All the tiny inperfections that made him beautiful. Without a word, she turned and made her way downhill.

~ Veronica Rossi

She was an idiot. An adorable, gorgeous, feisty, funny, sweet, sexy idiot.

~ Sarah Mayberry

If I looked like him,” Tara said. “I’d want to have sex with myself. All the time.

~ Jill Shalvis

I can't imagine a romance novel published today where the hero rapes the heroine and she falls in love with him.

~ Julia Quinn

His hand glides down my arm, folds over my hand. His fingers lace with mine, palms kissing. I can feel the fast thud of his heart through this single touch.

~ Sophie Jordan

You've maddened me for you...have changed everything. So, I'm going to f*ck you long and hard, beauty, because if I'm to be enslaved by you-I want to be your master as well.

~ Kresley Cole

Why is he scared of the dark?I meant the words for a joke, but Shade nodded seriously. Like all monsters. Because it reminds him of what he truly is.

~ Rosamund Hodge

The tune was sad, as the best of Ireland was, melancholy and lovely as a lover's tears.

~ Nora Roberts

The entire time I'm burning in Hell, I'll regret each tear I made you weep. But if Hell were the price for twenty days with you, I'd condemn myself again and again. - Cian MacKeltar

~ Karen Marie Moning

I bare my soul and you are suspicious! No, Scarlett, this is a bona fide honorable declaration. I admit that it's not in the best of taste, coming at this time, but I have a very good excuse for my lack of breeding. I'm going away tomorrow for a long time and I fear that if I wait till I return you'll have married some one else with a little money. So I thought, why not me and my money? Really, Scarlett, I can't go all my life waiting to catch you between husbands.

~ Margaret Mitchell

This is going to sound crazy, but... from the moment I first set eyes on you I haven't been able to stop thinking about you.

~ Leigh Fallon

It was heartfelt, it was heartbreaking. It was extreme joy, it was bone-crushing grief. It was fiery hot, it was icy-cold. It was true love sprouting... it was true love dying.It's like we were both trying to hold onto something that was slipping through our fingers, and we didn't understand why.

~ S.c. Stephens

I didn't want to give you the one last part of myself that I couldn't take back. And then you were gone... And I realized it was already yours. It had been since the beginning. Except that I hadn't told you. It drove me mad, the thought that you would never know.

~ Lisa Kleypas

Once she kissed me, my heart slowed, and every muscle in my body relaxed. How much I needed her terrified me. -pg 252/ARC

~ Jamie Mcguire

He put the knuckles of his fist to the table, leaned toward Niles and spoke quietly, cuttingly, in his rough, gravelly voice.“Fucked her last night, man, and this morning. Five times. Five. It was like she hadn’t been touched in a decade. So fuckin’ sweet. Damn,” he taunted, his eyes locked on Niles. “You’ve had her, you gotta know, not enough money in the world’s worth that.

~ Kristen Ashley

She wanted to go over and hug his tears away, but she was too frightened.

~ Steven Spielberg