Romantic Suspense Quotes

Books are keys that open many doors.

~ James Rollins

God is love. He who loves knows God.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Because of that, he didn't know how to love someone who actually loved him. He had learned a twisted, tormented kind of love filled with pain and exploitation.

~ Jacqueline Simon Gunn

She averted his eyes, but not before he recognized the pain in them, a tormented and languished gaze, a stare preserved for people who were able to love deeply enough that they could be destroyed by it. For a moment, he knew that gaze intimately, remembering it from a time long gone. The ache of a shattered belief once known. He knew that feeling.

~ Jacqueline Simon Gunn

The dark sky seemed to swallow the moon, as Samantha stood alone on the deserted highway.

~ Grace Willows

I want to take you under the moonlight.

~ Kassandra Cross

He had a hungry look in his eyes and it frightened her.

~ Kassandra Cross

Embrace the love of your life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

There was something wild beneath the surface that his suit couldn't hide. He had the cocky arrogance of a man who broke the rules with impunity. A man who feared nothing. A very, very dangerous man.

~ Sarah Castille

I want you to grab hold of the brass spindles and don’t let go.” When she did as he required, he spread her legs wider. “Hold tight, baby. This is going to feel so good.

~ Maggie Adams

Being an author, writing a book was great fun. Publishing and marketing, not so fun.

~ Wynne Stevens

From Flood, Flash, and Pheromones--coming soon:In the torrential downpour with water swirling that threatened to pull her down, she didn’t see the voice’s owner. The hurricane had blessed the entire city with a surprise drenching. All weather reports had predicted it to pass over with sporadic rainfall but that didn’t happen. The storm settled over Houston as if it had no intention to move on. Cassie flailed in panic as the roof of her car disappeared under the water twenty feet beyond. She prayed once more that the container in it was watertight. And that she’d see her car again. Then she concentrated on living. Where had the voice come from?

~ Shelley K. Wall

From Flood, Flash, and Pheromones--coming soon:As Cassie’s body hurled toward him in the swirl, she realized the brevity of the situation. This was it. This was the moment that determined whether she lived to see another day or drowned in this filthy brown water. This was the moment she proved she had never been a quitter, never been a weakling. All the problems she’d dealt with at work today seemed trivial.

~ Shelley K. Wall

Would the man in the cabin have come after them? Would he have sent someone else? Or would he have never even known they were there and they could have just gone back to normal life.Normal Life. He didn’t even know what that would be now.

~ Shelley K. Wall

He had always liked a good mess—God knows he had sure made a few. In typical form, he squared his shoulders, furrowed his brows and muttered, “bring it on.

~ Shelley K. Wall

How can I be more important than someone else? Isn’t every life important?

~ Shelley K. Wall

You're not safe with me.He cut me off, seeming to growl. I don't want to be safe. I want to be with you. You can't do this alone.

~ S.g. Holster

I can be badass and still like pedicures. - Liz Harper, Secret Need

~ Satin Russell

I have only known two men's souls in my life, one the devil, the other the the bird's wings which picked me up and carried me back to the freedom of being.

~ Wendy Gibbins

I think it would have to be the way that my sister looks at you when you can’t see it.” “Yeah? And how’s that?” he asked, very interested in the answer. “Oh, you know,” she said coolly, “like you’re the air she needs to breathe.

~ L.a. Kuehlke

As comestibles nourish our bodies and ideas nourish our minds, so art nourishes our souls.

~ Alexandra York

In my experience there are only a handful of reasons for murder....Jealousy, vengeance, greed, fear and pleasure....Some killers enjoy the kill....For them it is a great game, and for the most part they are the ones I hunt.

~ Amanda Quick

She covered his hand with hers over her abdomen. His was so much bigger than hers and had probably fired guns, rifles, and god knew what else, but right here, right now, his tenderness broke down her will as sure as any grenade.

~ Lisa Kessler

Because I’m attracted to you. Because you’re the poster child for contradictions and I enjoy each one of them. You’re funny when you’re being so damn serious. You have a kind heart and protective nature that reminds me so much of my father.

~ N.d. Jones

I don’t need a ritual to tell me we have a biological connection, or that the gods have already decided we complement each other. Even with that, Sanura, we have our own free will. If we decide to begin a relationship, I want it to be because we want to be together, not because biology or the gods say we should be together.

~ N.d. Jones

No one fucks with the Lazos brothers.

~ Savannah Stuart

I can't watch you die tonight.

~ Zoe Forward

You’re not his,” Bryan said firmly. “Bry, I don’t know whose I am anymore.

~ L.a. Kuehlke

No touching? Screw that. She was going to touch tall, dark and sexy all over. This was her dream.

~ Katie Reus

Will you do me a favor? Declan asked. If he looked at her with those dark, intoxicating eyes, she was likely to do anything he asked. Maybe. Any more dreams you have, no matter how small, will you tell me about them? Even the ones that star you? The almost flirty quiestion slipped out before she could stop herself. A slow grin spread across his fallen-angel face. The man just looked as if he wanted to do wicked things -- and she'd let him. Especially those.

~ Katie Reus

After every date we're going to end up in bed together. You might as well save on rent. Her lips curled up at the corners as she fought a smile. That's so romantic. I don't know how to argue with that.

~ Katie Reus

She wanted to ride him, to feel all that strength pulsing beneath her, but the most primitive part of her brain knew that this first time, he was going to be on top. A man like Declan was dominant to his core.

~ Katie Reus

Twenty years ago, two of the CIA's best double-agents had been murdered in their own home on Christmas Eve. The husband had been killed first, and the wife had been raped repeatedly before she'd been beaten to death. The two children were never found.

~ Katie Reus

He moved to her other breast, then lower, lower... She rolled her hips insistently when he settled between her open legs, crouched like a predator about to devour his prey.

~ Katie Reus

The last time he'd walked through a woman's dreams, she'd almost killed him.

~ Katie Reus

The marine underworld stretched below the ship and embodied many secrets. The disappearance of Olga had become one of the mysteries that would remain with Stefania and her family. The disappearance of her baby sister and sudden departure from her home had taught the ten-year-old that life was filled with uncertainties. But she was willing to forget that for a little while.She jumped down from the barrel and headed toward Liam, Felix, and the other shipmates. They would sing shanties and talk of the constellations, the sea, its creatures, and the legends. It would get her through another night.La Suerte was the only stability for her passengers with the infinite unknown all around them. The waters of the sea, the world below the surface, and the sky that stretched beyond the horizon was a representation of the limitless possibilities and dangers awaiting those aboard.

~ Tiffany Apan

And now she must continue the day as if the strange dream hadn’t picked up her life and shaken it upside down like a snow globe, dislodging everything that wasn’t glued down.The Dream Jumper's Promise

~ Kim Hornsby

His thumb touched her lower lip, his eyes fixed on her. As if he couldn’t be stopped, the words flowed out of his mouth. “I want to take you in my arms, to kiss you long and hard, to touch you like you’ve never been touched, to give you the pleasure I feel running in your veins.

~ Chris Lange

One speck of dung will spoil the pot. In order to keep my thoughts on a high level, I put a positive construction on things.

~ Kathleen Rowland

I feared that if I let him, it would be the final push over a ledge I had been precariously hovering on since the day I had first laid eyes on him.

~ Nicole R. Locker