Romance Quotes

I don't know whether to toss you through that window or shake your hand and say 'Well done' Henry said in a tired voice.

~ Julia Quinn

Love and ego can never exist together, just as the Sun and shadow cannot.

~ Banani Ray

Every girl should have at least one wild fling on her resumé.

~ Donna Cummings

He loves her for everything she is and is not. She’s old enough to appreciate that.

~ Mandy Nachampassack-Maloney

My name's Sean, Jem. I'm Sean.

~ J.a. Belfield

Suck on this, Edward.

~ Dani Smith

I think I love you, Bennett. Probably not relevant at the moment so no need to say thanks.

~ Helene Young

She had wanted more than she could have.She had wanted him, and more... she had wanted him to want her.In the name of something bigger than tradition, bolder than reputation, more important than a silly title.

~ Sarah Maclean

And your green eyes are the color of the hills- the color of my home.' His voice dropped to a whisper. 'Aye, there's something about you, Lindsey Waters.

~ Cyndi Tefft

Lily looks back down at the necklace in her hand that Kavita had given her. It must have cost a fortune.It did. He confirms. Though not nearly as much as you're worth.Lily looks up at him. Don't say that. You hurt me everytime you speak.

~ Carroll Bryant

The white lily stands for purity. Artists for centuries have pictured the angel Gabriel coming to the virgin Mary with a spray of lillies in his hand, to announce that she is to be the mother of the Turks.

~ Carroll Bryant

It took me two years to give him all of my heart, and he threw it away in one night.

~ Dannika Dark

I looked at him like a stranger, someone I’d never seen before, and he looked at me like I’d been lost to him for a thousand years and finally found.

~ Emme Rollins

This is how life works. Deciding whom to love is not an alien form of decision-making, a romantic interlude in the midst of normal life. Instead, decisions about whom to love are more intense versions of the sorts of decisions we make throughout the course of our existence, from what kind of gelato to order to what career to pursue. Living is an inherently emotional business.

~ David Brooks

See me just as I see you.

~ Nicholas Sparks

Or you just not ask her.You might as well slit my throat.

~ Dee Henderson

I want you to know, chickens aren’t sexy. Not to me.”This was met with silence.“Are you there?” She was slurring her words now, which was embarrassing, so she took a deep breath. “Cam? Can you hear me?”“Yes, chickens aren’t sexy. Uh…I don’t think they’re meant to be.

~ Jill Shalvis

He took in the squeaky music, the vulgar and pining melodies, because passion immobilizes good taste and seriously considers what soberly would be thought of as funny and to be resented.

~ Thomas Mann

Oh, aye. I'm the devil all right. And last night, you were begging to step into the fire.

~ Liz Carlyle

Good luck, Oretsev. Find the firebird, and when this is over, I'll see you well rewarded. A farmhouse in Udova. A dacha near the city. Whatever you want.I don't need any of that. Just... He dropped Nikolai's hand and looked away. Deserve her.

~ Leigh Bardugo

Honest to God, she was the noisiest woman he'd ever been shot at with.

~ Jill Shalvis

I remembered Nahadoth's lips on my throat and fought to suppress a shudder, only half succeeding. Death as a consequence of lying with a god wasn't something I had considered, but it did not surprise me. A mortal man's strength had its limits. He spent himself and slept. He could be a good lover, but even his best skills were only guesswork - for every caress that sent a woman's head into the clouds, he might try ten that brought her back to earth.

~ N.k. Jemisin

Misha, my best friend who got me into bed and fucked me with a lie.

~ Penelope Douglas

Conn was a wickedly passionate, fiercely dominant man who loved her too much to ever really hurt her.

~ Joely Sue Burkhart

You ought to be blowing me kisses, wench.

~ George R.r. Martin

I’ll support whatever you decide. I’llhelp you any way I can. What’s mine isyours, okay? If you need something, I’ll make sure you have it, however I have to get it. -- Jason Dorsey

~ Jasinda Wilder

Max - ...Do me a favor, if the constable comes knocking, tell him I was here all morning, will you?Dodsley - Killed someone again, did we?Max- Never before luncheon, Dodsley. It's still early yet.

~ Gaelen Foley

Jenny: But surely Lord Blakely could not abandon his estates for so long.Gareth: No. Lord Blakely could not. Not unless he had someone he could trust to run his estates in his absence. And Lord Blakely...Well, Lord Blakely did not trust anyone.Jenny: Lord Blakely is talking about himself in the third person, past tense. Its disturbing.

~ Courtney Milan

Find the pitch and pace and syllables and words you love to hear. Delight your own senses, and self-romance.

~ Alexandra Katehakis

Just leave me alone, I want to be alone,” she said when Jack tried to open the car door. She hit the lock, and wound the window up. Since the roof was down, it was a fairly pointless exercise.

~ Sarah Mayberry

I hated him, loved him, wanted him, and yet I wished him away. So many conflicting emotions of wants and needs. So much fear. Not because of him, but because of myself—of how deep my feelings and desires were running, and how much I would fall if I happened to lose my grip.

~ J.c. Reed

That made love—not grace—the magic ingredient. Then anew thought hit her. Perhaps love was grace. A shiver wentup her spine. What did that make anger? The antithesis ofgrace?

~ Penelope Marzec

Witch Baby wanted to ask Ping how to find her Jah-Love angel. She knew Raphael was not him, even though Raphael had the right eyes and smile and name. She knew how he looked--the angel in her dream--but she didn't know how to find him. Should she roller-skate through the streets in the evenings when the streetlights flicker on? Should she stow away to Jamaica on a cruise ship and search for him in the rain forests and along the beaches? Would he come to her? Was he waiting, dreaming of her in the same way she waited and dreamed?

~ Francesca Lia Block

What sort of look are you going for?” Damn, how did he answer this? “Something…normal,” he finally said.

~ Toni Blake

She was an extension of his dreams. A sprinkling of magic dust, of unfeasible wishes, on his stable existence. The one thing-the one bright, marvelous thing-he wanted more than the world, but didn't deserve. However much he was tortured for her sake, however much blood he had spilled to protect her, the bruises to his body and the thrashings to his sanity, it would never be enough to make a wretch like him worthy of such a miracle.

~ V.s. Carnes

We knew each other to our fingertips. No, that's not right. We only knew each other in our fingertips, and that was nothing at all, and for a while that was okay. We could have been a love story, a fairy tale, an indie film about high school and selective insanity featuring a boy of angel parts and a girl made of dreaming. We could have been all the best things: bracelets sliding down arms while shots slid down throats, laughter and crashing music in dark and flashing rooms, kisses that started hesitant but didn't stay that way.

~ Amy Zhang

After 40 years of marriage, isn’t it amazing when you can look at your partner sound asleep next to you and still believe they have potential.

~ Kaylin Mcfarren

He dropped his voice, so low that Tessa wasn’t sure if what he said next was real or part of the dream darkness rising to claim her, though shefought against it.“I’ve never minded it,” he went on. “Being lost, that is. I had always thought one could not be truly lost if one knew one’s own heart. But I fear I maybe lost without knowing yours.” He closed his eyes as if he were bone-weary, and she saw how thin his eyelids were, like parchment paper, andhow tired he looked. “Wo ai ni, Tessa,” he whispered. “Wo bu xiang shi qu ni.”She knew, without knowing how she knew, what the words meant.I love you.And I don’t want to lose you.

~ Cassandra Clare

We stand there for a moment, staring at each other, savoring it. And then all at once, we slam together. Mia's legs are off the ground, wrapped around my waist, her hands dipping in my hair, my hands tangled in hers. And our lips. There isn't enough skin, enough spit, enough time, for the lost years that our lips are trying to make up for as they find each other. We kiss. The electric current switches to high. The lights throughout all of Brooklyn must be surging.

~ Gayle Forman

You have to be a romantic to invest yourself, your money, and your time in cheese.

~ Anthony Bourdain