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Because sometimes in life, Ken didn't always choose Barbie. (Jane Alcott)
— Rachel Gibson, See Jane Score
Then his lips caress mine. It’s only a brush, but the warmth overheats every part of me. Leaning back, my elbow bumps into the power button on the dryer and the old appliance starts moving. Spinning. Spinning like my head. Like my heart.
— Lauren Hammond, He Loves Me...He Loves You Not...
I can see the stars in your eyes from a mile away. They guide me to you just like the North Star.” Then he bent his head and kissed her – a long, sweet kiss under moonbeams that caressed them both lovingly.
— Kelly Curry, Happily Ever Afton
The army don’t teach enlisted men how to fly,” I said, trying to hold onto my dignity. “We gotta do that for ourselves.
— Amy Lane, Racing for the Sun
You see, there is a major downfall to living in a tourist town. You guessed it, the constant turnover of new people. You cannot really connect with anyone because no one is ever here for more than two weeks every year, if they comeback at all. The intruders never thought about what happens once they leave. ~ Stella
— Michele Richard, Mocked by Destiny
Some Prologue really makes you speechless and you started imagining the whole story and want to read it as soon as possible. One such prologue, which I read today was from "Me "N" Her.. A strange feeling by Rikky Bhartia..."By Himani Gupta
— Rikky Bhartia, Me "N" Her - A Strange Feeling
His head pounded with such intensity, he feared it would explode. It was hard for him to control himself around her. It was in his nature to crave her blood, and the craving was like a toothache that wouldn't stop throbbing.
— Angela Snyder, Vampire Next Door
I've needed someone like you for a long time. Now that I have you, no one is going to take you from me.Logan to Madeline
— Lisa Kleypas, Because You're Mine
I always say too much when I'm talking to you--- that's one of the problems....
— Stephenie Meyer, Twilight
Allie noticed it all, every sound, every thought. Her senses had come alive, invigorating her, and she felt her mind drifting through the last few weeks.
— Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
Face it, Jorlan, we are the lesser sex. That is why our name-givers take care of us. Left alone, we would fall to ruin. We are intellectually inferior. Left unmonitored, our innate male aggression would destroy this world.
— Dara Joy, Ritual of Proof
You think you want me now. But you'll change. Someday you'll find it damned easy to forget about me. I'm a bastard. A servant, and not even an upper servant at that--""You're the other half of me." (Again The Magic)
— Lisa Kleypas
Know, therefore, that from the greater silence I shall return..... Forget not that I shall come back to you....A little while, a moment of rest upon the wind, and anohter woman shall bear me.
— Kahlil Gibran
Of course he’s a Valentine. Look at him
—  he’s the pure definition of the word.
I rewrapped the scarf around my neck, and thought about how excited Jake had been that first winter he was here. Maybe it was just as simple as this: that he'd been up here enough to know that there wasn't anything special about Willow Hill. Including me.
— Claire Ray, Snow in Love
Hot damn. Cue the violins and happy cartoon bunnies. I was in the middle of a Disney moment. Because this guy was gorgeous. And we were standing so close to each other. If he hadn't been holding onto a barely contained rage directed at yours truly, it could have almost been construed as romantic.
— A. Meredith Walters, Find You in the Dark
There are a lot of snobs out there who disregard these books (romance novels), but they fulfil a need. I am happy and fulfilled in what I am doing and readers love them. And why not? They are harmless and they are fun.
— Sara Craven
Payton “Sin” Sinclair was an unapologetic people-watcher. As a sports consultant, working with some of the biggest and most recognizable athletes in sports and business, he had to be able to read the smallest nuances of others. That ability was just one of the unique attributes that set him apart from the competition and made him the go-to person when corporations wanted to align themselves with the top professional athletes in the country.
— Francis Ray, A Dangerous Kiss
Leave it to you to find a legal way to do something illegal (Candler)
— Diana Palmer, The Last Mercenary
The romance genre is the only genre where readers are guaranteed novels that place the heroine at the heart of the story. These are books that celebrate women's heroic virtues and values: courage, honor, determination and a belief in the healing power of love.
— Jayne Ann Krentz
If it’s only a kiss you want, I can kiss you with my clothes on.” Katie O'Reilly to Captain Lord Blackthorn in "Titanic Rhasody.
— Jina Bacarr
Something inside him shifted and came to rest, as if it had found its proper place. It was like one of his sister’s wooden tumbling puzzles, like the satisfying click it made when all its many turning pieces were perfectly aligned.
— Lena Goldfinch, The Language of Souls
I never liked the influence of others when it came to feelings. I rather went through the painful process of analyzing everything half to death.
— Erika M. Szabo, Protected by The Falcon
Afterward, Sara didn't really remember falling asleep, still wearing her robe although she meant to get dressed and had had Serafina lay out a pair of jeans and a blouse for her. In any case, she had slept. And there had been dreams -- of the unsettling kind she didn't want to recall.
— Rosemary Rogers, Love Play
When the Romantic Novelists' Association was founded 35 years ago (in 1960) the image was of pink fluffy bimbos. Now, the view of life through rose-coloured spectacles has gone out of the window. A realistic background and certainly a more realistic relationship between a man and a woman are the important things.
— Jean Chapman
You’re playing with a blow torch, andit’s pointed at your head. Think about what you’re saying.
— Michelle Sutton, It's Not About Him
Darcy looked at Graham for the first time in months, and realized that her memory had not done him justice. He was gold and bronze, perfect like a statue. His eyes were ice blue. They were eyes that could pierce a man's resolve, and probably had many times. But not now. Now they assessed her, ice fading to liquid sky...
— Olivia Stocum, Starlight
Nice. Wait--- so, does he know? Does he know he's the only person who's ever flipped your pancake?
— Meg  Maguire
I will keep my bulk. All of it, if ye dinna mind. I will have need of it, thank ye." Derrick
— Billi Jean, Silver's Chance
A big hello from California!! And, when in doubt, self-publish, thank you smashwords.com!!!
— Nancy Fornataro, Nicky's Fire
I’d already said too much, giving my hand away. Yet I found myself lost on an island of need, peering through a telescope, searching for that one blinking light to let me know when a ship was approaching. She was that ship destined to save me… or wreck me. I could feel fate sinking in her claws. No woman had ever made me want the way.
— Terri E. Laine, Because of Him
Reagan, I pledge to you my trust and loyalty. You are it for me, for better or for worse, for richer or poorer, in sickness or in heath. You have my vow that in all things, I will love you unconditionally. Know that you and whatever kids we have will come first in my life. It will be my goal to keep you and our children happy for the rest of my life.
— Terri E. Laine
I guess we put ourselves out there hoping for the best, hoping that the person you say your vows to will be an even better person when you are both old and grey. We hope that they will still be there, sitting in a rocking chair with you on the porch, sipping on coffee with your toothless gums
— Taryn Leigh, Perfect Imperfections
I wanted you to have the best pears in New York and I wanted to be the man to buy them for you.
— Judith McNaught, Someone to Watch Over Me
Dammit, I’ve missed her lips, her taste, her smell, her touch. I’m dizzy. I’m lost. I’m never coming up for air again. Everything I need to survive is in my arms right now, and I’m never letting go. Ever. “Katie,”I breathe, and she shudders.
— J. Saman, Start Again
Life is always on the way back home, after its wilful adventures.
— S.L. Tsao
for a moment, I stand in the doorway, watching the steady rise and fall of their chests. I listen to the gentle hum of their breaths and I wonder when my little babies started to turn into men. And I pray. I pray that my boys will be good men. That they will know how to treat the women in their lives, and more than anything, I pray to God that they will be good fathers, despite the fact that they’ve had no one to show them how.
— Heather M. Orgeron, Boomerangers
He stops rocking and looks into my eyes. We’re inches apart and I’m mesmerized by the tiny flecks of indigo in his blue eyes. A girl could drown in those eyes. And it wouldn’t be the worst way to go.
— Lisa Daily, Single-Minded
She was wrapped in my jacket, almost swallowed by it. You never realize how small a woman is until she wears your clothes.
— James Russell Lingerfelt, The Mason Jar
As a child, crisp spring afternoons were spent wading along Reedy Creek just beyond the field. Then came the heavy breeze in the autumn, pushing off the almond, auburn, sugar-yellow and apple-red leaves into the creek, providing rafts for dragonflies. In winter, the snow upon the wood became an eerie deep, and the occasional gliding of an owl would be spotted from our bedroom. Then, to spend an afternoon walking in a snowy wood and find a scarlet red cardinal perched on a white limb, you would think God arranged that picture just for you.
— James Russell Lingerfelt, The Mason Jar
I hope you know that when you’re happy, or sad, or joyful, when you’re melancholy on spring days, or rainy nights, or autumn evenings, I’d be right there with you, watching the leaves change. And during cold winters by the popping and cracking of a chimney fire, as the snow powders the limbs of the cedars, I’d be there, with you, lying beside you when you wake up and when you go to sleep. And I’d never abandon you. I’d be there for you when you need me. And starting now, I’ll be there for you as long as my time on earth shall last. All you ever have to do is tell me what you want or need and I’ll provide that for you, if it’s within my power. I swear I’ll love you the rest of my life.
— James Russell Lingerfelt, Alabama Irish
Yellow swallowtail butterflies, with their charcoal striped wings, were all over the wildflowers. The woodpeckers rattled away in the trees. Two weeks ago, those sounds were annoying to me, but now, it sounds more like a song. I stopped to ask myself what was wrong with me, for everything to be so awesome in the world, and then I remembered. So this is what being in love is like.
— James Russell Lingerfelt, Alabama Irish
I’ve learned that when people are hurting, they need a comforter, not a commentator.
— James Russell Lingerfelt, Alabama Irish
Forgiving doesn’t mean forgetting. Forgiveness is you not letting your hate and anger rule your life. Because it will, whether you realize it or not. When you free the offender, you’re freeing yourself. Your forgiveness or lack of forgiveness has no effect on them. It’s your journey. It’s your struggle.
— James Russell Lingerfelt, Alabama Irish
Eden hid her smile in my hand and leaned down and kissed me. I took her face in my hand, her velvety skin like energy against my fingertips. Her love for her family and for people who were hurting all collided with her stunning beauty and made her irresistible. I kissed her forehead, her cheek, her neck, and her chin. Our noses touched, and she drew a shaky breath. Her hair hung around my face, creating a veil that hid us from the world.
— James Russell Lingerfelt, The Mason Jar
She shook her head, and we parted, kissing, as the first beams from the sun burst forth behind us. When I returned to my bedroom, the scent of her hair remained on my pillow. For the first time in my life, at the age of twenty-five, I was in love.
— James Russell Lingerfelt, The Mason Jar
Most women don’t have a problem with me being naked. As a matter of fact, most women want me naked.-- Dylan McAthie
— Nancee Cain, The Resurrection of Dylan McAthie
So we went for a stroll in Alumni Park, a grassy lawn in front of Pepperdine that overlooks the coast. Deer trickle down from the hills and rocky bluffs to graze there. The coral trees rise like watchtowers over a pond where fresh water reeds grow, providing a small refuge for ducks and wild birds. At night, a full moon leaves a trail on the ocean’s black waters, and the constant coastal breeze disturbs the tree limbs, sending their leaves into a continuous stirring.
— James Russell Lingerfelt, The Mason Jar
Grandpa would go for strolls alone through the pastures where meadowlarks and grasshoppers flew like broken-winged birds, where rabbits constructed their havens, and where thick-coated coyotes and red-tailed foxes sniffed and searched them out.
— James Russell Lingerfelt, The Mason Jar
I went for walks across the fields in my cozy, cotton-knit shirt, my worn out jeans, and my cowboy boots. I would stand at the pasture fence and watch the sun set. One day, pink ripples trailed its red ball; then the next it was a yellow bulb shining against gold-dusted clouds. Though it seemed as if heaven was on the other side of the hill, for some reason, the sunset was sad. At night, I would sit in the rocking chair by the fire with a cup of coffee and a book in my hand, a practice I had grown to love over the years. But what was once refreshing was now depressing. And when I stopped to ask myself what was wrong with me to see the world as so dull, dark, and worn-out looking, I remembered.
— James Russell Lingerfelt, The Mason Jar
Grandpa stopped and looked at me. I paused, too, knowing this meant he had something important to say. His body was frail, but when he stood with his chin up like that, staring into my eyes, I had no choice but to respond with complete honesty. He could level me with that look. I was like a vulnerable child every time he did it.
— James Russell Lingerfelt, The Mason Jar
You said you’re certain the person the two of you ran off this property is a woman?” Both Keston and Jaden nodded. “What makes the two of you so certain of your observation? It is considerably dark in here as well as outdoors. Did anyone get a close up of ‘her’ before she began running?” Norman asked. Keston and Jaden looked at each other. Each brother soon realized this report that’s underway comes with more complexities than what they were originally expecting for this time of night. The detectives conduct this type of questioning from sun up to sundown.  “Although she was dressed in all black, her attire was close fitting, covering her arms to both wrists,” Keston shared with the officers and Cantor. “So, she wore a cat suit but without the tail?” Mike couldn’t help but to make light of what is being shared. Boys will be boys. A small amount of delight had shown in their eyes before they each gathered their composure to again devote their attention to the police report.
— Lawana Dinkins, Jaelana's Motivation
Yeah,” Joseph said. He rubbed his face over the back of Gage’s neck. “I want to smell the sweat on your skin and breathe in the scent of exhaust in your hair. I love the way you smell, Gage. My sexy, dirty bad boy.
— Christa Tomlinson, Bad Boys Need Love Too
E.L. James. Best damn author of our time, if you ask me. She really nailed it with that tampon scene. Pure enlightenment.
— Christina Elle, In Walked Trouble
Dance, cher?” he asks, his blue eyes playful. I nod and he pulls me gently into his arms. He’s warm. We sway to the music and the gentle rocking of the boat. His hand rests on the small of my back, in that sweet spot that makes you feel feminine and protected and adored all at once.
— Lisa Daily, Single-Minded
This isn't my excuse, this is my reality.
— Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us
Let's do it fucking for real, Lara Jean. Let's go all in. No more contract. No more safety net. You can break my heart. Do whatever you want with it.
— Jenny Han, P.S. I Still Love You
Who knows? Maybe you both live happily ever after, or maybe three months from now you end the relationship because he doesn't squeeze the toothpaste from the bottom...nothing is guaranteed." - Olivia Harper, Secret Need
— Satin Russell, Secret Need
I can see the caravanserai, like a mirage in the distance. The heat hums. I thought I saw water. What would you have on these trade winds for your comfort?
— Suzy  Davies, Johari's Window
Oh, what am I going to do with this life I have been given." I said to myself as I sat and thought about life, and how screwed up mine really was. I was brought back into reality by Colin’s answer.
— Nicole Eglinger, Falling
He was desire, and I was his prisoner, chained up by his kisses. Submissive to his touch.
— Candace Knoebel, The Taste Of Her Words
It was awful, this love.
— Eloisa James, My American Duchess
What if I told you I know the risks, and I'm willing to take my chances?""It wouldn't change a thing. Those walls, as you call them. . . They're apart of me now, and they are iron strong." He lifted a hand to her face, skimming his thumb over her lower lip. "Even if I wished to, I wouldn't know how to dismantle them.""I know," she said quietly. "I know." She wreathed her arms around his neck. "That's why you need me. I'm going to burn them to the ground.
— Tessa Dare, Do You Want to Start a Scandal
spending a night with woman remember her is a fool
— Lucas Ryan
After spending night with woman remember her is a fool
— Lucas Ryan
I love him more than any man on earth. He’s everything. One look across a library instantly and irrevocably changed both of our lives forever and now we can’t get out – trapped together – because this love is unsurpassable and we both know it.
— Sarah Michelle Lynch, Tainted Lovers
I drift through forests in my dreams, I swim the lake I imagine for myself when I’m sad. It’s so blue and clear. I scoop some water into my hands as I tread water and I can see right through it, almost as if it’s air. Tiny, luminescent fish live at the bottom of the pool and wink at me as I swim naked and free above them, my hair spilling out around me.
— Sarah Michelle Lynch, Tainted Lovers
Do the things I never did. Swear. Wear neon colours. Skydive. Climb fences. Ride horses naked. Say obscene things. Make love. Shout at people when they piss you off. Toot your horn. Scream. Become tainted and be proud of it. It’s who you are. You came into this world naked and blank, like a canvass, but I want you to go screaming out of it covered in every colour of the rainbow.
— Sarah Michelle Lynch, Tainted Lovers
Coming up behind her, Westcliff settled his hands at her waist, easily dodging her attempts to throw him off. He pulled her hips back firmly against his and spoke against her ear. “Are you angry because I started making love to you, or because I didn’t finish?” Lillian licked her dry lips. “I’m angry, you bloody big hypocrite, because you can’t make up your mind about what to do with me.” She punctuated the comment with the hard jab of one elbow back against his ribs.” ~ Marcus and Lillian
— Lisa Kleypas, It Happened One Autumn
Well, that explains the dreamy accent. And why transvestites would make him feel homesick.—SINGLE-MINDED
— Lisa Daily, Single-Minded: A Novel
He swims easily to the side of the boat and pulls himself up on the ladder, water droplets clinging to his chest and abs. Still hanging on to the rope, he brings himself effortlessly over the side of the railing and onto the deck. His khaki shorts are completely soaked through, and they hang low and loosely on his hips. I have to force myself, consciously, not to ogle him.
— Lisa Daily
Don’t you worry, darlin’,” he says, his intensely blue eyes full of mischief. “I like surprises
— Lisa Daily, Single-Minded
Lord, but did he grow up nice.
— Kelly Moran, Counterbalance
He could be doing quantum physics in his head or undressing her in his mind—she’d never know the difference.
— Kelly Moran, Counterbalance
He didn’t know what was hotter, her Star Wars reference or the breathiness with which she spoke it.
— Kelly Moran, Counterbalance
I’d tell you not to swoon, but he’d catch you, so never mind.
— Kelly Moran, Counterbalance
I’m a man of words, yet you rob me of them every single time.
— Joanna Shupe, Mogul
Her fingernails were cut short and workmanlike, but were painted in pink and white stripes. The smartphone leaning dangerously from the pocket of her loose dress was a similarly aggressive shade of candyfloss, which seemed a crime against an otherwise perfectly decent model. She was the most overtly feminine person he had met since his kindergarten days, when small girls came bedecked with bows, ruffles and sparkly purses.
— Elle Pierson, Artistic License
That he had been born an artist—in all ways—a paragon of romantic torment out of the likes of some Brontë novel—has yet to make itselfknown to him. He watches himself unfold.
— Wheston Chancellor Grove
Do you think he'll be alright?"she said, looking at the injured stallion... He felt comforted that she'd chosen to sit out here with him in the cold stables... When he was younger he thought he'd known what it was to feel passion. But what he was experiencing now, sitting close to her on a hale bay, there was simply no comparison.
— Diana Thompson
Open your heart and find your Destiny
— Jacqueline Britton, COASTERS
To be loved, is to be immortal.
— Lynette Ferreira, William: The Vampire Pirate Saga
In another minute or two, those men would have tossed your skirts in that alley right there... if you were wearing skirts! You should be thanking me for saving your sorry hide! By my calculations, that’s twice in one day.
— Melissa Lurquette, A Beautiful Bounty
I sometimes wonder about this True-Love thing and I get confused. Love--as I now understand it--has to be true if it's there.
— Nikhil Bhardwaj, O Amor
This wasn't her first kiss. He could tell that much, though he doubted any of the young men who'd kissed her had known what the hell they were doing. He felt a vague, stupid sort of rage toward them. It made him all the more resolved to make this kiss sublime. Sufficiently long and slow and sweet and deep to obliterate those embraces from her memory.From this day forward-when she thought of kisses, she would think only of him.
— Tessa Dare, Do You Want to Start a Scandal
You see certain people and get the intuition that they are related to you in a way unspecified, important to you for the reasons unidentified. You bet I had received my turn of hunch!
— Nikhil Bhardwaj, O Amor
To find my true identity, look for the simplicity freely suspended somewhere in the complex solution of evil and good. No matter what forms the solvent, what forms the solute.
— Nikhil Bhardwaj, O Amor
I was expected to reach for those plump breasts by now, but I was still busy window-shopping, browsing through the scene of my life.
— Nikhil Bhardwaj, O Amor
It still remains as the best moment of my sex life.... touching and feeling the bosoms of a girl for the first time is an experience with no near rival.
— Nikhil Bhardwaj, O Amor
Love ends abruptly. In fact, this is central to endings of most sort. We just don't admit that.
— Nikhil Bhardwaj, O Amor
My anger was on a rise, when suddenly her eyelids fell. Her lips flexed and again relaxed to shower me with a smile that calmed me down in seconds.
— Nikhil Bhardwaj, O Amor
Every woman deserves a man that respects her. Every man deserves a woman who appreciates his efforts.String of Fate B01M3PP3UB
— Juvy Ann, String of Fate
The existence of everything around me was overturned by her solid presence. I couldn't see a thing other than my girl---magnetizing me with her absolute, authoritative pull!
— Nikhil Bhardwaj, O Amor
He tried to resist but he couldn't. His body strained, stretched then loosened, as he experienced his first orgasm. The boy had attained puberty! And there he stood... blessed!
— Nikhil Bhardwaj, O Amor
He couldn't escape it. She'd begun re-calibrating his senses the moment she came through that library door. His peripheral vision was now trained for flashes of golden hair: his ears, trained for her melodic laugh. He found himself following the drifting scent of her soap and dusting powder, like a dog panting after the butcher's wife.
— Tessa Dare, Do You Want to Start a Scandal
I have never believed in slow deaths; unless already dead, hope keeps everything alive.
— Nikhil Bhardwaj, O Amor
Speaking my mind has never been a challenge for me
—  it's speaking my heart which is difficult.
It is astounding how women influence our entire ambit, and that's in this 'manly' world! They amaze you, don't they? And man, we get amazed!
— Nikhil Bhardwaj, O Amor
Such is the force of love at first sight. Your sense go dormant for a while, and all that remains active is a rushing organ in the chest---assuming charge of your entire being.
— Nikhil Bhardwaj, O Amor
We all have our handicaps. You're not mine.
— Kelly Moran, Tracking You
I always hoped I’d be the one to tame the bad boy. It’s a stupid girly thing, the universal belief in vagina magic where men change after having some.
— Milana Jacks, Sweet Dirty Wolf
Something about her reached me on a deeper level than I had ever experienced and it was frightening. It was exciting. It was dangerous.
— sw andersen
Would I always look back on this moment with regret, no matter which choice I made?
— Nicole R. Locker, Tragedy and Desire
when river reaches for my hand, he actually grabs me by my heart. it’s always been like this.
— Pia Carlotta Schwade, Someonesickness
my throat is starting to choke because i can still smell his scent that is lingering on my pillow from the last time he was here, with every breath i take.
— Pia Carlotta Schwade
Call it what you like, my lady, but it is still spying.
— Jessie Clever, Inevitably a Duchess
She didn't deserve me. She deserved a hell of a lot better than me, but so help me, I wasn't good enough of a man to just let her go.
— Nicole R. Locker, Tragedy and Desire
Jax, I don't know if I can do this," I murmured."Do what?" he asked.I though for a moment as he watched me in silence. "Survive you," I whispered in answer."Maybe you won't have to...
— Nicole R. Locker, Tragedy and Desire
If Aphrodite had an avatar on earth, it was her. It was her- the Holy Grail men keep searching all through their lives!- O Amor
— Nikhil Bhardwaj, O Amor
If Aphrodite had an avatar on earth, it was her. It was her- the Holy Grail men keep searching all through their lives!
— Nikhil Bhardwaj, O Amor
The term 'first-love' exists because there always more to count ahead, as pure as the previous one, as true as the one that touched your soul lately.
— Nikhil Bhardwaj, O Amor
She was covered in sweat, and her body odor filled my nostrils. But her smell wasn't repulsive, believe me! It was rather alluring. It was tempting, a little foul, sour, yet arousing.
— Nikhil Bhardwaj, O Amor
Time is an obstinate healer. It heals you against your will. And the younger you are, the faster you are cured, only to come out more immune.
— Nikhil Bhardwaj, O Amor
The 'humanity' that we bear is stuck in dividing grades. The affinity, the warmth in our hearts has turned partial accordingly.
— Nikhil Bhardwaj, O Amor
God. He was an eye-gasm if she ever saw one.
— Kelly Moran, Puppy Love
How southern belle of her.
— Kelly Moran, Puppy Love
Her mother and memory lapses were BFFs.
— Kelly Moran, Puppy Love
Hazard of the job. That's Ode de Anal Gland you smell.
— Kelly Moran, Puppy Love
Just about every available female--and some unavailable--seemed to think the way to his heart was through his blood sugar levels.
— Kelly Moran, Puppy Love
I'll never get to hear her say, 'I love you, Mommy,' like other parents take for granted.
— Kelly Moran, Puppy Love
She was supposed to be my salvation, and though she wouldn’t be my ruin, the loss was going to thrust my life right back to what started my downward spiral in the first place.
— Kelly Moran, Winter's Path
Organization takes the fun out of everything.
— Kelly Moran, Winter's Path
I'll always be here, Cole. You have me. All of me. My body. My heart. It's all yours for the taking.” Tangling my fingers in his hair, I pull his face to mine and let our heated breath mingle. “So take it.
— Kimberly Lewis, What's Left of Me
It's the kind of storm that only happens on the highveld, the thunder loud and rapid. Zanele doesn't speak. I need her to. Maybe she is counting the people who have died since we first met.
— Arushi Raina, When Morning Comes
Creating love stories that stand the test of time.
— Author Jessa Stephens
Her smile steals my breath, and there is no doubt in my mind that this will forever be one of those images burned in my brain. I’m staring, but I can’t help it, and—honestly?—I don’t care. I’ve missed seeing her pretty face and smile that warms me to the core … and her laugh, her personality, even that dorky dance move she does when she gets excited after winning at something. Hell, I’ve missed all of her. But she doesn’t know that, and she also doesn’t know how just the thought of her right before I fall to sleep usually keeps the nightmares at bay.
— Kimberly Lewis, What's Left of Me
You promised to be mine," he looked deep within her eyes, "mine forever.
— Dana Christy
Falling in love, making love, having baby, if all sprinkled with the love, you will know how to be a man; how give love and how to receive it.” Taham said. “You learn the rules of love so you can love people, love yourself and reach the true love without austerity.”from "Goddess of Passion", book one
— F.J. Namini
He loved her like the first time every time. Like the first time all the time.
— C.J. Carlyon, The Cherry House
What was it about my obsession with romance that always made me feel embarrassed? Like it was a silly, girlish thing to obsess about. In reality, it was what we all wanted, right?
— L.H. Cosway, Showmance
At the time of solitude, I went where Narmada was sleeping. She got awake and sat up. She neither got scared nor nervous but she immediately got off the bed. She kept both her hands tied on her chest. I was standing so close to her that my face was near her face. We could sense each other’s breath.I called out her name and could not speak anything else. After a moment, I started - “I love you Narmada…I like to be with you…I want to marry you.”She got nervous and said - “Please, go to your room, why have you come here? It may cause trouble if Jaanki sees us like this.” She was neck down. Her eyes were on the floor. Her heart was beating fast.“Don’t you want to talk to me? Why are you angry with me? Why don’t you trust on my feelings for you?” - I softly asked her.“I guess you don’t like my friendship with Varsha. You and Varsha are poles apart.” - I added.She said - “You please go. It would not be nice if someone sees us like this. I do not want anything from you.” I said - “But I am dying for you and I know you too are made for me.” Her eyes suddenly fell on maid behind the curtains of the door who was trying to listen to our conversation. Narmada said - “You please leave right now, we’ll talk later. Mom is not at home.”I went by on her prescriptive tone.She was fighting for her self-being and the reason was only Varsha. She felt suffocated with my friendship with Varsha.I was glad to hear her words - “WE’LL TALK LATER”. This meant, she gave her consent to my love. She understood my restlessness.-- Excerpts from Romantic Novel "Narmada
— Laxman Rao
You are probably the only girl on the planet that would spend so much time with Dylan Porter, who might just be the single most hottest guy on the planet, and try to get him to date other women,” Clara laughed and shook her head in disbelief.
— Nicole R. Locker, First Impressions
I see the same sky above me, the same stars and moon, but nothing will ever be the same for me, because I love you.” Whoever said love was grand evidently had never been in love.
— D.F.   Jones, Ruby's Choice
Her giggles were light in my darkness.
— Shana Vanterpool, Damage Me
Reed wanted to believe, and he had to place faith in her, to have a life with her. “Ruby, the one thing I know for certain is I love you. I have faith in you. I believe in you.
— D.F.   Jones, Ruby's Choice
You can fall out of love accidentally but you can't fall back in consciously, try as you may. It's like waking up out of bed. You look around you, take it all in and, when you're awake, wonder 'how did I get here?' And that's what your heart does sometimes; it keeps its secrets, even from you and throws you back the reins when you're least prepared. By then it's too late.
— Phil G Glenn
I'll do anything reasonable, but I won't be intimidated and I won't grovel.
— Lynne Graham
Regretfully, he remained an alluring mystery, with fascinating lines and details she could not help but seek to examine further and memorize.
— Lily Blackwood, The Beast of Clan Kincaid
The woman was not what would be termed an exquisite, or what his grandfather’s generation would have styled ‘a diamond of the first water.’ There was something too primal in her features and her bearing, and her aura shimmered with power. She was a sunset on a mountain peak, or the eerie colors in the sky in the far north of Scotland. She was a vein of gold still glittering inside the rock, her treasure clear but held close, in her own keeping.She would never belong to anyone but herself, and that made him long for her to share that self with him—in every conceivable way.
— Cara McKinnon, Essential Magic
I look at her and I see my future...and it looks glorious.
— Danielle Sebastian Berry, Phrasing
Above all her voice moved him. He had not known that an accent seduced his emotions. But he’d always been drawn to those with an accent. Be it woman or man. It sounded nicer. A lavender husk. More proper, elegant. His attuned ear seemed to be remembering voices from another life, another time. He could never escape the sense that he’d lost a life dear to him and that life was lived in another language.-from Who Has Known Heights: The Mystique Memoirs of a Melancholic Mind
— Wheston Chancellor Grove
The day after the darkest hour is always the most beautiful.
— Wheston Chancellor Grove
Well, I did tell you I couldn’t give you a thing. Maybe you’ve just realised that Alistair can give the god damn world, and the pleasure of kissing his shiny slap-head every day!
— LeeAnn Whitaker, Never Another You
He could lose himself in the copper warmth of her eyes. Except, no, this wasn't losing himself. This was finding something precious.
— Melissa Tagg, Like Never Before
And his kisses.God, his lips feel like they were custom made to fit perfectly against mine.He alternates between soft and sweet, hard and hungry. And I get it.Though we’ve shared plenty of kisses, this one is different. It’s like discovering a lake in the middle of a desert. Or waking up on Christmas morning to a glistening blanket of show. The equivalent of winning the lottery. And though it redefines the “cheese” in cheesiness, that’s what it feels like to have Logan back in my life, back in my arms, when I thought he was lost to me forever.Being with him means more than I can express. It’s everything. He’s everything. I start and end with him.
— Siobhan Davis, Saven Disclosure
Living is deeper than just life
— Tru Lyfe
To an onlooker, his face would be unreadable, but to me I know that look. His thoughts roll around his head like a frantic ball as he considers each excuse he'll give me. At this moment I wish I were the onlooker, a stranger, I know he can't quit for good, not yet. He's searching for the perfect sentence, the perfect touch to bid time until I'm safely sucked into his trap. When he reaches me, he doesn't ask for permission, he pulls me into a hug, wrapping his arms around my back and pulling me into his chest. He's willing me to forget—to forgive because somewhere deep down, he knows this time I won't.
— Brittany Butler, Hazed
Find your reason and hold it tight.
— Courtney Giardina, Behind the Strings
Everything in life has its price, and often the heaviest prices we pay are not in terms of money.
— Raynetta Manees, All for Love
From History to ChanceThe river of time was flowing on its way, and I was swimming over its honey coloured surface with eyes closed. Does time move? It’s debatable. But we definitely move, age to age, with time and away from it, from its unmoving faces. To see its new faces. In its widest, longest and strangest art gallery.
— Jamaluddin Jamali, From History to Chance
True love is what makes life worth living.
— D.F.   Jones, Ruby's Choice
Who needs mail? If it doesn´t come in an Amazon box, I´m not interested.
— Alexa Riley, Snow and Mistletoe
Cal opened another cabinet and removed a bottle of anti-inflammatory tablets, placing them on the table in front of her along with the ice pack he snagged from the freezer.She glanced at him, suspicious. “What’s this?” “The drug I offer to all of my victims to make them more compliant. It’s ibuprofen,” he said when she glared at him. “It’ll help with the pain and hopefully keep the swelling down. As will the ice. Do you need help taking your boots off?”“So that it’ll be more difficult for me to run away when you bring out your collection of shrunken human heads?”“Now you’re catching on.
— Lisa Clark O'Neill
Among the countless people in the world, two will find each other against all the odds and beat as a single eternal heart.- Not First Love
— Jennifer Lawrence
What a trajedy to be a martyr for love, yet we worship the characters anyways because they remind us of how we struggled.
— Shannon L. Alder
My auntie reads those. They’re lady porn. Nothing but cowboys who stumble upon the preacher’s daughter bathing and next thing you know they’re fucking under a waterfall.
— Eve Dangerfield
I knew that by this time tomorrow, I was going to be eternally grateful for falling down the stairs and knocking myself unconscious. Smartest dumbest thing I'd ever done.
— Erin McCarthy, Burn
I am an author! To read me is to know me.
— Angelique St. Chase Jr., 1,001 Las Vegas Nights
When I create characters for the world of others I realize how much I have yet to experience.
— Teresa LaBella, Heartland
True love occurs when a couple are matches, not mates. It is easier for mates to part when their season is over, as most animals do, while matches will correspond spiritually, mentally, physically, and socially, thus cleaving to one another and resisting separation.
— Isaac Milioti
Who can stop influenza and tuberculosis? The wealth of high society cannot buy off this evil, for their bored children die alongside everyone else.
— Margie Bayer, Goodnight Eleanor
I looked at the girl serving refreshments to the guests, with a smile on her face. She was in her teens. She had put on an orange coloured churidar, with a yellow dupatta and had a frame on her eyes,making her chubby face pretty. I felt nothing special about her. That ‘; wow!’ factor was not there. Seconds later, I realised she stepped towards me and served me with a glass of juice and walked away. No talks, no smile, no eye to eye contact and definitely not love at first sight
— Kalpa Das
I don't understand these rules. Writing rules. Eating rules. Studying rules. Loving rules. Everything in life seems to be governed by rules. Is that the only way to keep a person grounded? Does it really instil self-restraint or is it just a fear tactic that's used so that no one can fly to the highest realms of glory?
— Aditi Bose, My Dream Man
You were too busy chasing unrequited love that you forgot you could be beautiful to someone.
— Ella December
Men are not puzzles that you need to figure out and understand hidden clues. They are simple creatures that are straightforward with what they want. Stop chasing after a man you're trying to understand, whose silence you're convincing yourself means more than it actually does.
— Ella December, Mimi Memoirs
You deserve someone who is utterly obsessed with you.
— Ella December
Everybody always wants to fix me but I am a beautifully flawed mess.
— Ella December
It's time I stopped looking for men and time I start looking for me. Then I'll find the happiness I've always wanted.
— Ella December
For over 10 years I worked in the dating, sex and relationship fields, so combining everything I learned into my first fictional adventure romance was a blast and a true labor of love. After all the years I spent advising people on how to date, marry and have great sex, it was exciting to tell a very modern story of a woman in her late 30s working to get the wrong guy out of her life, just as Mr. Right comes along.
— Taylor Marsh
Romance novels. My guess? She started reading them early. My guess? She started them at a time where they made a huge impression on her and changed her perceptions. She isn’t cocooned, she pays attention and she knows there are no men out there like the men in those books she reads so she prefers being with them than trying to find someone like them which, she thinks, is a fruitless endeavor. That fantasy is far better than any reality and, you know what? She’s right. Men are a pain in the ass and a lot of them are dicks who cause heartbreak. And her, a girl life Faye? Well, she knows she’s the kind of girl men like that will chew up and spit out. So she’s smart and she’s not going to go there.
— Kristen Ashley, Lady Luck
Princess, the contents of your shoe closet would break the budgets of a lot of third world countries - Jake Malone
— Mackenzie Crowne, To Win Her Love
This is everything I thought I didn't want. Or didn't need. But I'm here now and it's everything I need and the only thing I want.
— Tamara Lush, Hot Shade
I don’t know how long we’ve sat here. All I do know is that my heart feels torn in two. Have I been here hours? Or minutes? Heartbreak is timeless".
— M.R. Field, Splinters
An honest man in politics shines more there than he would elsewhere.- A Tramp Abroad
— Mark Twain, A Tramp Abroad
His words were soft and broken against her lips, “Alexis, I will not lie to you. I want you more than I have ever wanted anyone in my life but I will not take you like this. I will wait for you. I will wait as long as it takes. I want you to be ready, to be at peace with your decision. But for the love of God, you have got to stop looking at me like that, or my resolve will fail me.
— Sophia Byron, Touched by a Phoenix
Why did you leave my hand? I’ve never felt so good, she thought. I felt good too, he thought.
— Sara Naveed, Undying Affinity
I swallowed and bit my lower lip, "Maybe freedom is never truly free, as they say," I said into his green eyes, "it comes with a price, and sooner or later, time will come to collect its toll.
— Julia J. Gibbs, The Oaks Remain
I should stay to be sure she doesn't have a concussion. And that she doesn't need sex for it. Or just to be there in case she did . . .
— Robyn Carr, Virgin River
Have you thought about what will happen when you start living the life that's right for you, instead of the one you promised to live for someone else?
— Tamara Lush
Women are huntresses until the day we die. Our perpetual thirst for the chase endures until our last breath. It remains while we are too focused on our careers to pursue love, when we have been burned by past relationships, and even when we are simply enjoying the freedom of being single. It does not miraculously vanish once we are settled down in a monogamous relationship – we merely make the conscious decision to remain faithful. But a lioness in a zoo is still a lioness. Romance novels are the remedy for our restless hearts. They invite us to explore and experiment within the safety of their pages. Every book is an opportunity to satisfy our unending desire to fall in love. They allow us to experience it all over again, right from the start: The intoxicating newness. The thrill of the hunt. The exhilaration of the game. The building anticipation. The worsening hunger. And finally, the fulfillment of a much-needed release. Each book offers a chance to achieve a state of blissful, glowing contentment… Until the next one catches our eye, that is.
— Alisha Ashton
You are the master of your emotions and you and only you have the power to control them external and internal.
— Sharyan Alleyne, Our Lives
What kept you distant from me?” she asked. By now, she had regained enough confidence to start a discussion.“Fear,” he replied.“What kind of fear?” “Fear of facing people’s objections. Fear of putting both of our lives at risk. Fear of exploiting your reputation and mine as well. Fear of beginning a new relationship with you when everybody already knows I am a mentor to you. Fear of…losing you and never having you again in my life.” He struggled with words while speaking the last line.“I love you Ahmar and I would not leave you. Ever.
— Sara Naveed, Undying Affinity
Don’t be an asshole. Just because you have one, it doesn’t mean it’s okay to act like it.
— Christian Simamora, Marry Now, Sorry Later
Under my bed was a note folded up in half. I smiled as I opened it and read, " I don't know how long it took you to find this but whatever day it is right now I promise you I love you a thousand times more than when I wrote this. That's the beautiful thing about us, no matter what the day brings, no matter the time or place, our love grows exponentially everyday.
— Hope Alcocer, Where Hope Lies
We never looked quite right on paper, but that's what made us so great. We were exactly what we wanted to be...and that was happy.
— Hope Alcocer, Where Hope Lies
I'm not taken and you needn't worry yourself about sharing me because I'm not asking you to. -Aria Cason
— Lilly Wilde, Touched
This is it, so please don't question it. I love you, I need you, and you mean everything to me. So, will you have me? Please put your all your eggs in one basket because I am doing the same. I don't want a life without you in it so please don't let me have one.
— Hope Alcocer, Where Hope Lies
Just give me a chance. I know I'm not your first, and I'll somehow try to deal if I'm not your last. Just give me the honor of being able to say I shared part of my life and my heart with you. Just...leap.
— Hope Alcocer, Where Hope Lies
If the British had fought half as well as this one kissed, she thought, the Americas would still be a colony.
— Sue London, Saving Persephone
On the contrary, I think making you happy should be taken very seriously.
— Drea Damara, The Weeping Books Of Blinney Lane
You are the miracle in me. Forever and always, truly, madly, deeply.
— Hope Alcocer, Where Hope Lies
From the very first moment I saw you, "Hi." "Hi."My heart has raced with adrenaline. Stomach full of butterflies and one mind hopelessly full of love.
— Hope Alcocer, Where Hope Lies
Remember babe, hurting people hurt people. And that doesn't make it right, and it won't ever make it okay. I just don't want to see you with a hurting someone that hurts people every single day.
— Hope Alcocer, Where Hope Lies
On my pillow was a note that read: "Everyday the mood gets jealous of the sun, but once the night comes you would never know a thing. Just like the sun gives it's light to the moon, no matter what the day brings, every night you'll know I'll always love you. Sleep Sweet. -A" He had my mind, my body, my heart, my soul. Like nobody else ever had.
— Hope Alcocer, Where Hope Lies
Meeting him was fate, loving him was a choice, and spending the rest of my life with him… well that was destiny.
— T.K. Chapin, The Perfect Cast
I want to be your lover. Burn your list, Jane. Let me be the one.
— Tina Gabrielle
You won't always have the luxury of a second chance. So be careful with your first one.
— Donna Kauffman, The Cinderella Rules
I feel like I'm twenty again.
— Elizabeth Horton-Newton, View From the Sixth Floor: An Oswald Tale
When life gives you lemons, find a friend whose life has given them tequila and have a party.
— Nefertiti Faraj, The Countdown to Thirty
From the hills in the early dawn,Small, thin, mist-wreathed, she came upon him;Hair sodden to the brow,Eyes like agates,Lips apart, tongue flicking at words frozen in her head.Gliding to his feet, She caught his hand and said'come help me, mister, or she'll be dead.
— Catherine Cookson
Someone you love has at least one secret that would break your heart.
— Rhein Fathia, Gloomy Gift
Samantha, you interest me. I’d like to take you out. Why are you fighting me?
— Elizabeth   Brown, Determined
She needed this. For the comfort, for the love, for all the glorious things she did not deserve and yet could not stop herself from wanting.
— Madeline  Martin, Deception of a Highlander