Romance Quotes

You are a soldier. A fighter. And now you must fight. Not for the emperor, not for France . . . but for yourself.

~ Rachel L. Demeter

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

~ Lisa M. Prysock

The Earl of Blackstone didn’t seem particularly mysterious to Emily. In fact, as he stood there silently—except for that sneering laugh he’d tried to cover up—she could think of several other adjectives to add to the list next time Sarah was searching for one: rude, self-important, boorish. And, if one could judge by the slightly slack-jawed way he stared at her, perhaps even “simple.

~ Jenny Holiday

The earl narrowed his eyes as he hopped off his bay gelding and surveyed the deep green expanse of lawn surrounding the ancestral home. The graceful house, built atop and around an ancient abbey, wore its centuries of accretion with aplomb, as if it had always perched atop thisgentle slope. In the slanting late afternoon sun, the fading red-brick walls glowed. “My God, I hate the country,” he said.

~ Jenny Holiday

I’ve told you before, ma chérie, love is not about submission. It is the willingness to give of yourself. That is a great power and gift, if you allow yourself to wield it.

~ Monica Burns

He kept pushing her, expecting for her to break. Fearing it. But he was the one who splintered apart. He was the one who broke.

~ Amber Lin

What have I done? he asked, his voice raw. You used to be such a sane, sensible lady.You took me on a journey into my own heart.

~ Shelly Thacker

And then you realize one day that you can't remember her scent and nothing smells like her anymore. You can't remember how she feels or the sound of her voice. You haven't thought of her every second of every day. Then--then you feel more alone than on the day you lost her.

~ Desiree Banks

You make me burn with life, and yearn to set aside my cold and distant, solitary ways.

~ Stacy Reid

You have not known very many men.I have no wish to know any others. I love this one.

~ Shelly Thacker

I would be anyone if only I could be with you.

~ Shelly Thacker

As he looked at her, she felt that flood of restlessness that she now knew was called desire.

~ Shelly Thacker

The softness of her touch, the emerald eyes gazing into his when they held hands and circled, attacked his defenses and flung them aside as if he were a helpless lad. If she'd come at him with a dagger, he might have let her stab him in the heart.

~ Amy Jarecki

Have you ever seen Russian nesting dolls?”Thrown by the questions, she opened her eyes. Why would he suddenly speak about a child’s toy? “I own a few of them.”“Then you must understand that undressing you is like playing with one of those dolls. I open one to find another beneath it. I took away your gown to find you are still as clothed as you were a moment ago and I wonder how many more layers I will have to work through to get down to you—the doll I’m searching for.

~ Dominique Eastwick

Hetty shivered. Goodness, he had no business looking at her like that. Physician my eye! Physicians definitely didn't look like him; they were short, round and adorned with wigs and spectacles.

~ Susan Lodge

There is not a man alive who would not want you.

~ Shelly Thacker

Enya assessed him like a woman would a piece of fine cloth. Rugged land for a rugged man.

~ Amy Jarecki

I've tried to deny it even to myself...My heart and soul are filled with you.

~ Shelly Thacker

Ciara, there are certain things a man does not ask of a lady.You are not asking.Aye.

~ Shelly Thacker

His tongue tapped his top lip as he cupper her breast in his hand. Tis boidhche --beautiful.

~ Amy Jarecki

I said kiss me again.” A sultry smile curved her lips. “Would that be such a difficult task to perform?”Christ almighty, she wanted him to kiss her again. And she was ordering him to do so.

~ Monica Burns

Alyssa tried to lift her chin. She was going to do the one thing she loved again- something that reminded her of her mother; something dear to her. So what if she felt this undeniable attraction toward the dark-haired man. Correction. Earl.So what, indeed.

~ Nicole Castro

I would have asked you to let down your hair turning to regard her with a grin, his teeth a slash of white in his blackened face.But it is not quite long enough anymore.

~ Shelly Thacker

If one plays with fire, one should be prepared to burn, Jane.”“You say that as if I’m in danger from you.”“Maybe you are,” Tobias growled as the scent of her invaded his nostrils...

~ Monica Burns

Gideon could not imagine any other young unmarried woman of his acquaintance passing up the opportunity to snare, if not himself, then the Carradice fortune. In any case, the number of women who’d rejected him in any way was gratifyingly small. Yet Miss Prudence Merridew had most unmistakably rejected him. Several times. Wielding that damned lethal reticule like a little Amazon, to emphasize her point.

~ Anne Gracie

Now you also know what it is to be wanted and loved.

~ Julianne Donaldson

The arrogant man probably thought his path to heaven was already assured, and that he acted in accordance to God’s will just by breathing.

~ Maya Banks

And there are no words left, try as men may, to describe that little death, that incandescent instant when, transacted with mutual love, there is no difference between sweet submission and exquisite conquest.

~ Isolde Martyn

I suppose when you say you slept with him, it was more than just a nap?Lillian shot her a withering glance. Daisy, don’t be a pea wit.

~ Lisa Kleypas

Miranda shook her head slowly. 'Good heavens. That's quite an act you put on.'He drew himself up haughtily. 'I beg your pardon.''An act,' Miranda repeated. 'Stand as tall as you like, and frown at me all you wish. I saw you just now. You were feeding cats.''So I was. And do you make something of that?''You,' Miranda said daringly, 'have a kind heart.'He turned away from her, the tails of his greatcoat swirling about him. 'Don't enlarge too much upon the matter. The cats were hungry. I had food. This seemed to be a problem with a ready solution. It's not kindness to solve problems; it's efficiency.''I stand corrected. You have an efficient heart.

~ Courtney Milan

Beatrix wished she were a swooning sort of female. It seemed the only appropriate response to the situation.Unfortunately, no matter how she tried to summon a swoon, her mind remained intractably conscious.

~ Lisa Kleypas

Just look at the fellow, standing there like a bloody Greek god. Do you think she chose him because of his intellect?”“I graduated from Cambridge,” Christopher said acidly. “Should I have brought my diploma?

~ Lisa Kleypas

I'm not broken,' he repeated. 'Although at the moment . . . ' This was what came of violating the sentimentality quota. Everything he kept bottled inside him came out. He shut his eyes and pinched the bridge of his nose. 'At the moment,' he muttered numbly, 'I may be coming a bit unraveled.

~ Courtney Milan

Good night, my lord.” The words were pronounced in her most withering tone.By contrast, he remained quite alarmingly unwithered long after she left.

~ Christina Brooke

Thinking back on the outing to the theatre, she added, ‘I want a man, not a preening peacock!

~ Katherine Givens

A gentleman can’t let a lady sleep in an armchair while he takes his ease in a bed.”“But you are not a gentleman,” she pointed out. “You are the greatest scoundrel in all the land.”He tilted his head to consider that. “All right. You take the chair.

~ Christina Brooke

She narrowed her gaze. “I don’t trust you to keep your eyes closed.”“Smart woman,” he said. “I wouldn’t trust me, either, if I were you.

~ Christina Brooke

Angela turned in her chair. Resting her chin on folded hands, the mirror reflected the look of a girl in love. ‘Oh, what a blessing fate has bestowed on me.

~ Katherine Givens

I only hope I may not be ruined,” she was saying miserably. “I should be obliged to marry you after all, and then I’d likely murder you before the wedding breakfast was over.

~ Christina Brooke

Keep your hands off me.” She spoke viciously, through her teeth, and he caught a glimpse of her deVere ancestry. She was a virago in tiny, fragile, fairy form.

~ Christina Brooke