Famous Quotes

Ethan: Abstaining definitely doesn't work.Beth: what do you suggest?Ethan: We're obviously going to have to make love often, but keep the encounters from getting too intense. He sounded perfectly serious, like he really believed what he was saying.

~ Lucy Monroe

Simple and predictable seem pretty darn tantalizing when you’re a witch.Lately, I’ve wished for a lot of things to be the way they were. Gone are my lustfor the macabre and the sweetly sinful fantasies of meeting a vampire. Somethingabout unconscious people slumped against the dark leather of the booths atcrimson made it less sexy.

~ Cyrese Covelli

Caine was a murderer. A liar. A cad. A skulker in shadows and a heartless wretch. What sort of woman or God would love someone like him?

~ V.s. Carnes

One of the best lovers in Hollywood. What would a title like that encompass exactly? she wondered. Technique? Enthusiasm? Or was it more about equipment?

~ Sarah Mayberry

Caine usually woke from the recurring dream mid-air, having yet to be dashed upon the rocks, whimpering and panting like a child crying for his mother. Now he lifted his eyes to a dark, empty room in Jizan and the unusual, lingering scent of roses, and wept in his hands for his Father.

~ V.s. Carnes

She was a little thing, too, inciting that basic compulsion in him as a man to protect her in so hectic a place as post-war Israel. Even so, his actions were borne out of an entirely different instinct, altogether: to fool her and anyone within a dart's range... to protect himself.

~ V.s. Carnes

Can you…make it different this time?”“Different, how?”“Different position, different…something. I want to learn it all.”Whoa, pressure. When Maira’s genius brain wanted to learn something, she really applied herself.

~ Alisha Rai

He heard the voice that had called to him in dreams, had saved him from the sands and from following his brother into the river.

~ V.s. Carnes

Staring over him in the dim light of a side lamp, my tired eyes traced along the path of faint, yet emerging, lines etched around his equally-tired eyes. They'd become a permanent reminder of his ever-smiling face, and I wished–even after all of these years together-that I could absorb some of his contentment.

~ Jodi Lapalm

Uh-oh, big boy. Your blood is in the water and the sharks are circling. Must be feeding time.--Mea Brin, The Huntress

~ Michelle O'leary

I believe in love at first sight…But it’s not the first moment you lay eyes on a person, it’s the moment you first seethe person they truly are.

~ Ranata Suzuki

She knew exactly how she ought to feel, for she was well read in our greater and lesser English poets, but the unfortunate fact was that she did not really like being kissed at all.

~ Barbara Pym

With callused handsi tastedthe softness of the moonin the coldest windsi discoveredmy soul's warmest fireplacein the roughnessof his stubblethe tenderest love.

~ Sanober Khan

I married a man who was as much a part of me as my own soul.

~ C.j. English

I should have been bolder and kissed her at the end. I should have been more cautious. I had talked too much. I had said too little.

~ Patrick Rothfuss

I was in love with him. I knew that much was true. Love was the swelling, hopeful feeling in my chest every time I saw him. Love was the way I could forget about everything when I was with him. Love was the catch in my breath when he looked at me in his intense way. Love was the gasp he could draw out of me with the simplest of touches. Love was the way I could... I could be myself around him, know that I didn't need to be perfect or worry about what he was thinking, because he accepted me.

~ Jennifer L. Armentrout

The day you were born the angels whispered, She is going to love him until the day she dies.

~ Amanda Mosher

Fine! He is being passive aggressive with me, and it's gonna backfire; I'm gonna be active friendly.

~ Natalya Vorobyova

And so, in silence, we walked the surface of a dying world, but in the breast of one of us at least had been born that which is ever oldest, yet ever new.I loved Dejah Thoris. The touch of my arm upon her naked shoulder had spoken to me in words I would not mistake, and I knew that I had loved her since the first moment my eyes had met hers that first time in the plaza of the dead city of Korad.

~ Edgar Rice Burroughs

You’re a nosy sleuth like me because you can’t help it,” Alma said.

~ Ed Lynskey

Love is not an antidote of depression or loneliness, but it itself is a cause of depression and loneliness.

~ Raj Singh

... the idea that 'Life' contains situations more interesting and more romantic than all the romances ever written.

~ Marcel Proust

It's funny how love can fit inside a brown cardboard box. With relationships, people often think that things pile up. But when it ends, they're surprised how few these things turn out to be. Or at least, how few things they are willing to let go of.

~ Juan Miguel Sevilla

Megan stepping back let her glance switch from Alma to Isabel and return to Alma. No doubt about it, thought Megan. Created as much alike as any sisters ever had been, their resemblance started with their matching red-and-white polka dot blouses. Since she was a young girl, she had matched their eye colors to their different personalities.

~ Ed Lynskey

My feet crunched over dry hickory leaves. Wood rangers had stapled up Smokey Bear (“Only You Can Prevent Forest Fires!”) signs along the state roads. One cigarette butt flicked out a passing car window and there’d be real hell to pay.

~ Ed Lynskey

...when he possessed her, they seemed to swoon together at the very borderland of life’s mystery.

~ Kate Chopin

Oxthorpe stood. He could do nothing else. Her hands stilled, and her smile faded away. She stood and dropped into a curtsy. What did one say in such situations, when one knew a lady disapproved? “Miss Clay,” he said. “Duke.” She’d given the field laborer a happier smile than she gave him. Most everyone else had stopped smiling, too. This was the effect he had on others. He was the Duke of Oxthorpe, and though he did his duty by his title and his estate, he was not beloved. He did not know how to be beloved the way Miss Clay was.

~ Carolyn Jewel

He did not want to go to his grave knowing he had risked nothing for the woman he wanted. He wasn’t an ass, though. Or if he was, he did not wish to give her incontrovertible evidence of the fact. What to say to her, then, when he knew he was likely to speak too gruffly?

~ Carolyn Jewel

Stanley forced a smile to his lips at the memory of the onesided romance; it was silly, after all, a stupid childhood crush. Who’d fall in love with a fictional character? That was the kind of thing you laughed about as an adult. Or at least Harriet had thought so. He couldn’t quite do it, though. Couldn’t quite see it as a joke. It had felt too real, too raw and wild and fierce, for him todismiss it even now. It was love, of a sort, stunted and unformed as it was. For a time, it had kept him sane.

~ Amelia Mangan

Petey Samson gave the ladies an over-the-shoulder glance. He realized no doggie treat was forthcoming, even from Isabel who was usually the soft mark to hit up. He scratched his front claws to re-attack the sand.

~ Ed Lynskey

Love means never saying goodbye.

~ Harley

Keeping the box closed just keeps you in the dark, not the universe... but failing to open the box doesn't kill the cat.

~ John Green

EVERYONE MAKES MISTAKES, EVEN THE PERSONS WE LOVE.

~ Nicholas Sparks

Well done, Darren!” Master Byron was full of praise for the prince. “What did you use to cast it?”Darren’s eyes found mine. “Something I don’t regret.

~ Rachel E. Carter

Love is one of those topics that plenty of people try to write about but not enough try to do.

~ Criss Jami

Did it ever occur to you that I loved you as much as a man can love a woman? Loved you for years before I finally got you? During the war I'd go away and try to forget you, but I couldn't and I always had to come back. After the war I risked arrest, just to come back and find you. I cared so much I believe I would have killed Frank Kennedy if he hadn't died when he did. I loved you but I couldn't let you know it. You're so brutal to those who love you, Scarlett. You take their love and hold it over their heads like a whip.

~ Margaret Mitchell

I want to be able to love you, more than I fear losing you, and I don’t know how.

~ Mia Sheridan

But there’s a part of me that wonders what it would be like to be the most important person to someone else, to always feel like you were missing a piece of yourself when he wasn’t near you.

~ Jodi Picoult

I couldn't have gotten through any of this without you. Through all of it, you've been my support, my anchor. I don't know how one man's shoulders can possibly be so strong....He tilted her face up to his. With the love I feel for you, bella, I could lift up the world.

~ Pamela Clare

Don't get me wrong. I'm happy to be your morning lollipop, but I need to eat, too.

~ Pamela Clare