Romance Quotes

Do you know how many ways love can hit you? So it makes you happy, or miserable? It makes you sick in the belly or hurt in the heart. It makes everything brighter and sharper, or it blurs all the edges. It makes you feel like a king or a fool. Every way love can hit you, it's hit me when it comes to you

~ Nora Roberts

Was it the infinite sadness of her eyes that drew him or the mirror of himself that he found in the gorgeous clarity of her mind?

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

Take care. If you do not speak – I shall claim you as my own in some strange presumptuous way. Send me away at once, if I must go; – Margaret! –

~ Elizabeth Gaskell

Vane grabbed me. “DuLac, let’s chat.” British-speak for “Stand still while I yell at you.

~ Priya Ardis

I am running after you, and life, in desperate pursuit. My dream is that someday you will both turn and let me catch you. That dream carries me through every night... I have enclosed a hundred kisses in this letter. You must count them out carefully and not lose any.

~ Lisa Kleypas

Though sorrow may impede my heart,It is of great love to have known you.

~ C. Elizabeth

It is our wounds that create in us a desire to reach for miracles. The fulfillment of such miracles depends on whether we let our wounds pull us down or lift us up towards our dreams.

~ Jocelyn Soriano

Phones are distracting. The internet is distracting.The way he looked at you? He wasn't distracted. He was consumed.

~ Stephanie Perkins

Her definition of romance was absentminded intimacy, the way someone else's hand stray to your plate of food.I replied: no, that's just friendship; romance is always knowing exactly where that someone else's hands are. She smiled and said, there was a time I thought that way, too. But at the heart of the romance is the knowledge that those hands may wander off elsewhere, but somehow through luck or destiny or plain blind groping they'll find a way back to you, and maybe you'll be smart enough then to be grateful for everything that's still possible, in spit of your own weaknesses- and his.

~ Kamila Shamsie

It’s like this…a starving man would gladly eat a radish, right? In fact, a radish would be a feast if that’s all he had. But if he had a buffet in front of him, the radish would never be chosen.

~ Colleen Houck

That dress…was a very, very good decision. I could write an entire poem on the virtues of your legs alone. You are a feast for the senses.” I laughed. “I don’t know about a feast. Maybe just an hors d'oeuvre.” He took my hand and wrapped it around his arm. “Not an hors d'oeuvre. The dessert. And I plan to spoil my appetite.

~ Colleen Houck

I'd run my whole life long to reach you, paddle my way across Atlantic and Pacific, traverse Jungle and Desert to find you, climb cliffs and drop from the sky to rescue you. Anything to be close to you. Any way to say I love you.

~ Heather Kris Thomas

Maybe 'Okay' will be our 'always'...

~ John Green

In any relationship in which two people become one, the end result is two half people.

~ Wayne W. Dyer

Romance novels are birthday cake and life is often peanut butter and jelly. I think everyone should have lots of delicious romance novels lying around for those times when the peanut butter of life gets stuck to the roof of your mouth.

~ Janet Evanovich

I seem to have run in a great circle, and met myself again on the starting line.

~ Jeanette Winterson

I love you. I hate you. I like you. I hate you. I love you. I think you’re stupid. I think you’re a loser. I think you’re wonderful. I want to be with you. I don’t want to be with you. I would never date you. I hate you. I love you…..I think the madness started the moment we met and you shook my hand. Did you have a disease or something?

~ Shannon L. Alder

But I think we both knew, even then, that what we had was something even more rare, and even more meaningful. I was going to be his friend, and was going to show him possibilities. And he, in turn, would become someone I could trust more than myself.

~ David Levithan

This is love, I think. A place where people who have been alone may lock together like hawks and spin in the air, dizzy with surprise at the connection. A place you go willingly, and with wonder

~ Jodi Picoult

Please, touch me, I pray.

~ Jess C. Scott

After listening and getting to know more about you. Also, feeling a deep connection between us that goes beyond physical attraction. I'm beginning to feel for, so much more than the friendship that I waited to grow with you. I'm not going to try and rush things. However, I don't want to wait until it's to late.

~ Jonathan Anthony Burkett

The culture of women in the church today is crippled by some very pervasive lies. To be spiritual is to be busy. To be spiritual is to be disciplined. To be spiritual is to be dutiful. No, to be spiritual is to be in Romance with God. The desire to be romanced lies deep in the heart of every women. It is for such that you were made. Are you ARE romanced, and ever will be.

~ John Eldredge

Most don't deserve your tears... and the ones that do will never make you cry.

~ T. Rafael Cimino

The world takes us to a silver screen on which flickering images of passion and romance play, and as we watch, the world says, “This is love.” God takes us to the foot of a tree on which a naked and bloodied man hangs and says, “This is love.

~ Joshua Harris

Hearts can't be broken because they're made of marzipan.

~ Kerstin Gier

It is when things are at worst you will get the best.

~ Santosh Kalwar

This first glance of a soul which does not yet know itself is like dawn in the heavens, it is the awakening of something radiant and unknown.

~ Victor Hugo

My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection.

~ Sigmund Freud

A woman could be as beautiful as she felt herself to be.

~ Laura Lee Guhrke

Love never comes with a brochure of rules and regulations, a prospectus with guides of what is acceptable and what is abominable. It’s a standard to follow your heart, and that’s what I did and if doing that hurt you, then I’m sorry… sorry for coming in your life and wasting your time, for causing you an anguish so great that you could not bear the sight of me. Today, I am proud to stand up and honour myself and proclaim to the world… yes, I loved someone more than myself. I loved someone truly, madly, deeply!

~ Faraaz Kazi

Only a true best friend can protect you from your immortal enemies.

~ Richelle Mead

Say 'provoking' again. Your mouth looks provocative when you do.

~ Becca Fitzpatrick

You here to finish me off, Sweetheart?

~ Suzanne Collins

You are speaking of my future lover. Be more respectful.

~ Charlaine Harris

Carpe Scrotum. Seize life by the testicles

~ Rowena Cherry

You sneaked into my cabin?”Annabeth rolled her eyes. “Percy, you’ll be seventeen in two months. You can’t seriously be worried about getting in trouble with Coach Hedge.”“Uh, have you seen his baseball bat?”“Besides, Seaweed Brain, I just thought we could take a walk. We haven’t had any time to be together alone. I want to show you something—my favorite place aboard the ship.”Percy’s pulse was still in overdrive, but it wasn’t from fear of getting in trouble. “Can I, you know, brush my teeth first?”“You'd better,” Annabeth said. “Because I’m not kissing you until you do. And brush your hair while you’re at it.

~ Rick Riordan

I require three things in a man: he must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.

~ Dorothy Parker

You know on TV when there’s one of those awkward, shocking moments and all you hear are the crickets in the background?Well chirp fucking chirp...this is one of those moments.

~ Emma Chase

Colin decided then and there that the female mind was a strange and incomprehensible organ - one which no man should even attempt to understand. There wasn't a woman alive who could go from point A to B without stopping at C, D, X, and 12 along the way.

~ Julia Quinn

Nice dress. Take it off.

~ Janet Evanovich