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It's hard as hell to hold onto your dignity when the risen sun is too bright in your losing eyes, and that's what I was thinking about as we hunted for bad guys through the ruins of a city that didn't exist.
— John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
He's exasperated. "I'm saying I'm in love with you! I've been in love with you this whole bleeding year!
— Stephanie Perkins
Sitting on the train I watch the scenery speeding by, notice a cobweb in the top corner of the window, undulating with a gentle breeze I can’t feel. I lean back in my seat and take my book out of the carrier bag. Turning it over in my hand, it feels warm. It feels how I want to feel; full of knowledge, full of the future.The time I’ve spent staying in bed smoking dope I’ve been hibernating, recuperating and gaining strength. I’m weak socially, but being away from other drug users has made me resilient. It’s allowed my mind and body to heal and mend. As if the winter is over, I’ve come out stronger now. I’m on my own. I have the choice of what to do with my life.I’m going to stay clean. I’m going to be the woman I can be.
— Christine Lewry, Thin Wire: A Mother's Journey Through Her Daughter's Heroin Addiction
Sitting cross-legged on her bed, I watch her take out her gear. She’s been smoking so much the room stinks of it. Over the last few weeks, I’ve seen her do it so often I’ve resisted the urge. It’s surreal, like I’m watching me from outside my body. My willpower is fragile at the best of times, but my resolve is always weaker in the evening.I feel a dread and a revulsion for what I’m about to do, but there’s a stronger feeling, an unutterable longing. I crack.‘Give us a line,’ I say.
— Christine Lewry, Thin Wire: A Mother's Journey Through Her Daughter's Heroin Addiction
We are in a boy recession," Eugene repeats. "There's been a sudden, drastic decrease in the male population at this school. And I'm gonna take advantage of it.
— Flynn Meaney, The Boy Recession
Books in the YA genre, in particular, should use proper grammar because they're more of an example to young people than adults books are.
— Laura Kreitzer
Eugene's got a fake ID, and he actually gets away with using it because he looks like he's thirty-six, thanks to his devotion to tasseled shoes and his ridiculous carpet of chest hair.
— Flynn Meaney, The Boy Recession
My love life couldn't be more nonexistent if Julius was all all-girls' boarding school with a moat full of alligators around it.
— Flynn Meaney, The Boy Recession
Great. Darcy is the ruler of our school. Prety soon, Julius is going to be like Singapore - you'll get a $500 fine for chewing gum or making out in the hallways.
— Flynn Meaney, The Boy Recession
The dimples spread across his face again and Megan couldn’t help but melt a little
— Debra Chapoton, Sheltered
But the thought of moving on from something I never had is depressing.
— Susane Colasanti, When It Happens
I just read this great quote by Junot Diaz, he was talking about true intimacy, and he was saying that it was the willingness to be vulnerable and to be found out. That’s what I felt that YA did. It wasn't pretentious, and it wasn’t hiding its heart. It wanted to be found out...It felt like those moments when you go to a party and you're standing around for a long time, going, I don't fit in here, what am I going to talk to these people about? And everybody's getting drunk, and then you find this one person, and you end up sitting in some corner talking about all these arcane things.And then before you know it you're having a conversation about the meaning of life and it's four o’clock in the morning. That kind of feeling, that kind of intimacy — I felt like that's what I got from YA.
— Libba Bray
The thing with do-overs it’s that they don’t exist. Second chances are just another chance to mess up.
— Melody Manful, Dominion
Lesson one: expect to get screwed over for the convenience of others on a regular basis.
— Jonathan L. Howard, Katya's World
This much I know already: When Tommy and the Big Brains, in whispered, wry asides, talk about Project 88715, they call it something else. They call it the "Adam Project.
— Michael  Grant, Eve & Adam
Uh…I’ve seen you around here a couple of times,” he said again, staring at the book I held. “‘I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.’”I stared. “What?”His lopsided grin spread into a full one, and it felt like someone had socked me in the chest. “It’s a quote from Oscar Wilde’s Dorian Gray. It’s one of my favorite books.”Hot and smart. And apparently he was a real-life boy.
— Jennifer L. Armentrout
It was enough to drive me mad. I was no longer myself and yet I was so much more me than I had ever been before. ~Katherine Demure
— Gwenn Wright, Katherine's Journal
I think sometimes in literature we kind of police ourselves. I know a lot of people talked about Twilight, and they would say, oh, but the heroine, she lets this man make her decisions. And I thought, that may not be the particular fantasy or trope that works for me.But listen man, I read Wuthering Heights. I wanted me a little Heathcliff action. I mean, why can't we indulge that fantasy and also be like, “And now I would like the ERA passed, please. Also, this lipstick is fuckin' killer.
— Libba Bray
I’m not certain what I notice first, the bright flickering light that illuminates the darkness underneath my eyelids, or the shrill screams that pull me form the dredges of sleep. Either way, I’m awake. And afraid.
— Christine Fonseca, Winter Wonders
All this bunch of so-called 'adults' was doing was making enemies of one another when what they really needed to be concentrating on was how to get out alive.
— Jonathan L. Howard, Katya's World
Now you're an adult, Katya!" he'd said, picking her up under the armpits like he'd been doing since she'd been born.
— Jonathan L. Howard, Katya's World
Jenna walked in between desks and plonked herself down behind hers, noticing AGAIN that the teacher hadn’t graced the class with his zitty presence. She thought Mr. Kennan needed to get fired, which said a lot, because she rarely paid attention to ugly teachers. She’d discussed this with the principal two weeks back when she’d been sent to his office after getting caught sleeping. She’d told him that if he employed more hot teachers like Mr. Daniels then maybe she wouldn’t pass out from boredom. The principal gave her a week’s detention because of that comment, saying that she needed to take things more seriously. But she WAS being serious.Jenna Hamilton from Graffiti Heaven (Chapter 28).
— Marita A. Hansen
Tequila! Would you not think fallen angels would be immune to it." "Fallen, hate that word! I prefer..misplaced
— Paul Guildea, The Pebble
The fact that at the moment the distinction is being made, a young adult, as opposed to an adult, is the one reading it. In other words, I don’t entirely believe in the distinction. A great book is a great book, and it’s impossible to say what part of a person is going to connect to it.
— Kristin Cashore
Violet: "You're an asshole." Onyx: "Thank you, it's something that took an eternity to perfect.
— Jessica Shirvington, Enticed
Bitterblue had never seen a man naked, and she was curious. She decided the universe owed her a few minutes, just a few, to satisfy her curiosity. So she went to him and knelt, which shut him up.
— Kristin Cashore, Bitterblue
My thoughts are quiet, but not calm. There is a terror on the edge of the silence, a terror fed by my burning flesh and the stench of death.
— Christine Fonseca, Transcend
There are few things I hate more than feeling weak. Needing help or failing top the list. The worst, however, is knowing that all three just happened.
— Christine Fonseca, Lacrimosa
A hand in mine.. hot. Breath on my neck... sweet. The feel of lips on my own... forbidden.
— Christine Fonseca, Lacrimosa
Ien stopped her voice with more kisses, more promises of a world filled with only them.
— Christine Fonseca, Transcend
She opens her eyes as the fury continues, pinning me with her glare. Her gaze reached into my soul as I spin the music back to the simple melody at its core—our melody. A moment of recognition washes over her, followed by regret, fear, terror. An entire kaleidoscope of emotions exists within a single heartbeat.
— Christine Fonseca, Transcend
I press my lips hard against hers, tasting her desire, her pain, her love, her confusion. At once I’m in two lives, two worlds, two places.
— Christine Fonseca, Libera Me
He would die in this room, buried alive by the weight of his life.
— Christine Fonseca, Transcend
I’d accepted my judgment without question. Agreed to live a mortal life. I didn’t know my memories would come with me
—  didn’t know I’d relive them every day.Death would have been more merciful.
I never mastered anything. I am damaged. Broken. And I always will be.
— Christine Fonseca, Lacrimosa
Forever. He carved the word into his soul. Kiera was his forever, deformity or no deformity.
— Christine Fonseca, Transcend
There is no way of stopping death, not here. You can prolong it. But at some point, it is bound to catch up to you.
— Nicole Sobon, The Yearning
She slips into the seat at our table, refusing to look up at me. I reach for her hand, sending a shiver through me when our finger tips touch. She glances at me, her eyes filled with a feral fear that reaches into my depths, pulling on emotions I refuse to acknowledge. Things I can’t feel now. Won’t feel ever again.
— Christine Fonseca, Libera Me
My thoughts war. Part of me needs to protect her
—  part of me wants something else. Something vile. Wrong.
She smiles and snuggles into me as we wait for our table. I inhale her scent. Vanilla and something else. Something different. Smokey almost. Sexy. It drives me crazy with need and I have to move away while I can.
— Christine Fonseca, Libera Me
Cass pulls from my embrace, her mind reaching into my heart. Pain, anger, confusion pass through her eyes. My pain. My anger. My confusion. She swallows hard. “Because?”“Because I traded it all, my heart, my memories, everything. For her.
— Christine Fonseca, Mea Culpa
Every spot his mouth touches closes the empty spaces inside.
— Christine Fonseca
A pang of deep longing ripples through me. I’m torn between my promise to send Aydan to the Abyss and my need to keep him safe. The opposing forces fragment what remains of my mind, breaking me down once again.
— Christine Fonseca, Lacrimosa
His question is pretty dangerous for me to try to answer, so I don’t—it continues to hang out there like the stained underwear at a slumber party that goes unclaimed.
— Jen Naumann, The Day Zombies Ruined My Perfectly Boring Life
My nightmares are usually about losing you. I'm okay once I realize you're here.
— Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire
You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you.
— Jane Austen, Persuasion
He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.
— Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
Are you following me?" she asks, but doesn't meet my gaze."Yeah," I say."Why?"I give her the only honest and true answer I have. "You're where I want to be.
— Simone Elkeles, Leaving Paradise
I vowed after that day that I would be your hero too, no matter how long it took
— Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall
He leaned his head to me, his neck so close to my lips, I felt the heat coming off his skin. His breath was warm against my ear. His voice was a ragged snarl. "I miss you."This wasn't happening."I worry about you." He dipped his head and looked into my eyes. "I worry something stupid will happen and I won't be there and you'll be gone. I worry we won't ever get a chance and it's driving me out of my skull."No, no, no, no.........We stared at each other. The tiny space between us felt too hot. Muscles bulged on his naked frame. He looked feral.Mad gold eyes stared into mine. "Do you miss me, Kate?"I closed my eyes trying to shut him out. I could lie then we would be back to square one. Nothing would be resolved. I'd still be alone, hating him and wanting him.He grabbed my shoulders and shook me once. "Do you miss me?"I took the plunge. "Yes.
— Ilona Andrews, Magic Bleeds
She absorbed the terror and beauty of him and his world. Of every moment over the past days. All of it, filling her up like the first breath she'd ever taken. And never had she loved life more.
— Veronica Rossi, Under the Never Sky
I'd cut up my heart for you to wear if you wanted it.
— Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
Love means never having to say you're sorry.
— Erich Segal, Love Story
There's plenty more fish in the sea than Prince Jonathan," he told her softly. "And this particular fish loves you with all his crooked heart."-George to Alanna
— Tamora Pierce, The Woman Who Rides Like a Man
I regret..." Tobias tilts his head, and sighs. "I regret my choice.""What Ch
— Veronica Roth, Insurgent
Your name is a golden bell hung in my heart. I would break my body to pieces to call you once by your name.
— Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn
I needed to see you. And touch you. And just... know
— Ally Carter, Only the Good Spy Young
All I've ever wanted was to be near you.
— Shannon Hale, Enna Burning
Don't be afraid," I said, "We belong together."I was immediatly overcome by the truth of my own words.
— Stephenie Meyer
The necklace was a good excuse," he murmured."For what?""I thought maybe I could go to Charleston and show up at your front door to give this back and maybe… you might let me in. Or something. I was worried that another male would court you, so I've been trying to go as fast as I could. I mean, I figured maybe if I could read, and if I took a little better care of myself, and if I tried to stop being such a mean-ass motherfucker…" He shook his head. "But don't misunderstand. It's not like I expected you to be happy to see me. I was just… you know, hoping… coffee. Tea. Chance to talk. Or some shit. Friends, maybe. Except if you had a male, he wouldn't allow that. So, yeah, that's why I've been hurrying."His yellow eyes lifted to hers. He was wincing, as if he were afraid of what might be showing on her face."Friends?" she said."Yeah… I mean, I wouldn't disgrace you by asking for more than that. I know that you regret… Anyway, I just couldn't let you go without… Yeah, so… friends.
— J.R. Ward, Lover Awakened
Fighting, laughing, loving or crying, if it was with him, I was where I wanted to be.
— Jamie McGuire, Beautiful Disaster
I know I would crumble if I lost you.
— Shannon Hale, Enna Burning
Yes...and I'm worried that if you get into the habit of making out with your instructors, you'll wind up making out with him too.""Don't be sexist. They could find me a female instructor.""In that case, you have my permission to make out with her as long as I can watch.
— Cassandra Clare, City of Fallen Angels
I hate skin
—  I hate bones and bodies. I want to curl up inside of him and be carried there forever.
And then, just at that moment, when I'm no longer sure if I'm dreaming or awake or walking some valley in between where everything you wish for comes true, I feel the flutter of his lips on mine.
— Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall
You could hold me and I could hold you. And it would be so peaceful. Completely peaceful. Like the feeling of sleep, but awake in it together.
— John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson
Is it romantic or psychotic when I say I'll never let you leave me?
— R.K. Lilley, Grounded
He put a hand on his throat, as though trying to stop the words, but they came anyway. "You're home. To me.
— Kristen Simmons, Article 5
Yelena, you've driven me crazy. You've caused me considerable trouble and I've contemplated ending your life twice since I've known you...but you slipped under my skin, invaded my blood and seized my heart.
— Maria V. Snyder, Poison Study
It was you," I say softly. "It's always you I think about."The intensity in his gaze took my breath away. I could feel him. Every part of him. His soul was sewn to mine. His heated blood flowed through my veins. I'd thought that I had been close to my mother, and I was, but not like this. Chase and I barely touched- our hands, mouths, knees- but there was no part of me that was not his.
— Kristen Simmons, Article 5
You're a marshmallow. Soft and sweet and when you get heated up you go all gooey and delicious."-
— Janet Evanovich, One for the Money
I remember who I am when I'm with you.
— Nicole Christie, Falling for the Ghost of You
You may have married her, but she is mine. Do you think I shall let you take her? She may be ten times your wife, but, by God, you shall never have her.
— Georgette Heyer, Devil's Cub
I want you forever, not just for tonight.
— Sylvain Reynard, Gabriel's Inferno
Mo Nighean donn," he whispered," mo chridhe. My brown lass, my heart."Come to me. Cover me. Shelter me. a bhean, heal me. Burn with me, as I burn for you.
— Diana Gabaldon, The Fiery Cross
As soon as he had her safe again in his arms he broke down and kissed her. Helen was so stunned she stopped crying before she had a chance to start and nearly fell out of the sky. Still thebetter flyer, Lucas caught her and supported her as they tumbled on the wind, holding and kissing each other as he tumbled on the wind, holding and kissing each other as he guided them safely back down to the catwalk. As their feet touched down, the light inside the lighthouse switched onand projected the shadows of their embracing figures out onto the choppy waves of the ocean.“I can’t lose you,” Lucas said, pulling his mouth away from hers. “That’s why I didn’t tell you the whole truth. I thought if you knew how bad it was you’d send me away. I didn’t want you to give up hope. I can’t do this if you give up on us.”(Starcrossed)
— Josephine Angelini
Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath hath had no power yet upon thy beauty.
— William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
I want to hold you like a kitten in my shirt, and still I want to spread your thighs and plow ye like a rotting bull. I dinna understand myself.
— Diana Gabaldon, Dragonfly in Amber
I never thought of it like that. I always thought of you as a part of me, like my own eyes or my own hands. You don't go around thinking 'I love my eyes, I love my hands', do you? But think what it would be like to live without your eyes or your hands. To be mad, or to be blind. I can't talk about it. It's how I feel.
— Elizabeth Marie Pope, The Perilous Gard
I think you’re my hero,' she said. Only half-kidding.He stared at her, the picture of incredulity. 'Most people,' he said, 'think I am a very bad man.'She studied his eyes to try to find out if that bothered him. He didn’t seem bothered by them. He seemed discomfited by her. 'Well,' she said at last, 'maybe you’re a very good dragon.
— Thea Harrison, Dragon Bound
Because with the right person, sometimes kissing feels like healing.
— Lisa McMann, Gone
Kept dreaming of this spot she had on her neck, this tiny country. I wanted to visit, to paint a picture of what I found there, a wall with a road map of her skin.
— Cath Crowley, Graffiti Moon
What other thing, Eve?""I love you. Sometimes it makes my stomach hurt, but I kind of like it. Tired now, come to bed. Love you.
— J.D. Robb, Immortal in Death
Don't do that again! Not ever again!" I told him."I should say the same to you," he said. I could feel his breath, warm on my neck. "Promise me!" I demanded."I... I promise.""I can't lose you.
— Kristen Simmons, Article 5
Leo smiled and stroked her hair. 'We'll both be fine, Marks. We've just begun our journey...and there's so much we have yet to do.' He spoke more softly as he heard her breathing turn even and steady. 'Rest against my heart. Let me watch over your dreams. And know that tomorrow morning, and every morning after that, you'll awaken next to someone who loves you.''Dodger?' she mumbled against his chest, and he grinned.'No, your confounded ferret will have to stay in his basket. I was referring to myself.''Yes, I know.' Catherine slid her hand up to his cheek. 'Only you,' she said. 'Always you.
— Lisa Kleypas, Married By Morning
Love you! Girl, you're in the very core of my heart. I hold you there like a jewel. Didn't I promise you I'd never tell you a lie? Love you! I love you with all there is of me to love. Heart, soul, brain. Every fibre of body and spirit thrilling to the sweetness of you. There's nobody in the world for me but you, Valancy.
— L.M. Montgomery, The Blue Castle
Come back with me, Aria. Be with me.
— Veronica Rossi, Through the Ever Night
The fear, momentarily paused, returned with full force, and in this frantic, baffled state I ran to him, and leapt into his arms. He seemed surprised at first but soon was squeezing back. "It's all right," he soothed. "No one's hurt. You're okay."His words sliced through me, and for the first time since he'd taken me from school, I knew the truth about us: I could not be okay if he was not okay. Pain, nightmares, fighting- all of it aside- he was a part of me.
— Kristen Simmons, Article 5
I promise I'll come back. No matter what happens." Though his voice was only a whisper, there was a fierceness behind it. I believed him completely. "I'll wait for you," I told him.
— Kristen Simmons, Article 5
I held out my arms to him and he came to me like a child.
— Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca
Kiss thy lips and you will see what thou create.
— Santosh Kalwar
I would have gone too but I wanted to come straight back to you.I kept thinking of you, waiting here, all by yourself, not knowing what was going to happen.
— Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca
Someone would have to be out of their mind not to come back to you. I walked through a blizzard to get here.
— Abigail Roux, Warrior's Cross
Erik: Are you very tired?Christine: Oh, tonight I gave you my soul, and I am dead.Erik: Your soul is a beautiful thing, child. No emperor received so fair a gift. The angels wept to-night.
— Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera
Truth to tell, the longer I live, the more I'm tempted to think that the only moderately worthwhile people in the world are you and I.
— Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos de Laclos, Les Liaisons Dangereuses
There's something about her," Caire said in a low voice. "She cares for everyone about her, yet neglects herself. I want to be the one who cares for her.
— Elizabeth Hoyt, Wicked Intentions
Sometimes, when something hurts us, our hearts break a little-in a slightly ... more literal way than for humans. Our pain sort of spills out and onto anyone around us. We call it a cracked heart.
— Brodi Ashton, Everneath
Oh, God," Lori said without looking at me, "what are they thinking, leaving the two of us alone out here on the dock together? We might TALK or something.""That would be awful," I said. "I might give you a hickey."She laughed, still watching for Cameron's start instead of looking at me. "Just by talking to me?""I can talk really dirty. You'd be surprised.
— Jennifer Echols, Endless Summer
Sam- " After you were bitten, i knew what would happen. I waited for you to change, every night, so i could bring you back and keep you from getting hurt." Grace- " How long did you wait?" Sam- " I haven't stopped.
— Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver
And you're not leaving," she said. "Promise me."It was as if she had asked him to promise to keep breathing, to notice sunshine, to permit the spinning of the earth. What choice did he have? Even if he left her, she would be camped in his heart, an insistent and willful presence. She would match her strides to his on any journey he ever took; she would lie beside him on any bed.Amalie, he said, "that's the easiest promise I've ever had to make.
— Sharon Shinn, Reader and Raelynx
A smaller rocket cut across the sky, trailing smoke. It exploded in a red heart."Awwwww!" said the crowd."Upside down," said Sean.The heart was, indeed, upside down. It grew and grew, upside down, until it's lights trailed and faded.A bigger rocket exploded in bright golden sparks, and then came another red heart."Upside down," said all the boys.Three explosions layered on top of one another, gold, blue, pink. Then still another red heart exploded, growing and growing before it faded."Upside down," said everyone in the boat but me.My own heart expanded for Adam.I whispered, "I know what he meant.
— Jennifer Echols, Endless Summer
Your confidence in me is heartwarming.Makes me want to return all the money I stole from the little old ladies and kick the heroin.
— Jennifer Echols, Endless Summer
I will show her that loving her is my greatest truth, and the most beautiful thing I have ever known. ” — Gem
— Stacey Jay, Of Beast and Beauty
I got caught watching the one person I was supposed to not care about
— Cambria Hebert, Before
Girl lithe and tawny, the sun that formsthe fruits, that plumps the grains, that curls seaweedsfilled your body with joy, and your luminous eyesand your mouth that has the smile of the water.A black yearning sun is braided into the strandsof your black mane, when you stretch your arms.You play with the sun as with a little brookand it leaves two dark pools in your eyes.
— Pablo Neruda
Adam ” Lori called loudly enough for me to hear her but not so loud that her voice would carry up to my mom in the marina office- or to her dad who might be listening from their screened porch facing the water. “I came over to get some tips from the boys about teaching Tammy and Rachel to board. Of course I did not come over here to see you. How could you think such a thing That would be disobedient.” I held up the wax. “For my own disobedience I have to buff the boat. Then I’m going for a jog.” She tilted her head. Probably her eyes widened but I couldn’t see them behind her sunglasses. I hated not being able to see her eyes. She asked “In this heat?” I didn’t mind jogging in the heat. The heat was a big friendly animal that liked to wrestle and only occasionally sat on me until I lost my breath. Anyway she was missing the point. I repeated carefully ”I am GOING for a JOG.” “I HEARD you the FIRST time ” she said. “It’s late afternoon in the middle of June. It’s ninety-five degrees out here.”  “He means he’s GOING for a JOG” Rachel and Tammy said at the same time. “He’s GOING for a JOG.”Lori still didn’t get it. Normally her blondeness was one of the things I loved about her. At the moment not so much. Exasperated Cameron told her “Adam wants you to go for a jog too.” She said “Oh ” “If you two airheads have to hook up secretly for very long ” Sean said “you’re not going to make it.
— Jennifer Echols, Endless Summer
Let's go," I said."Go where?""On Lori's date with Parker."Now he looked at me over the nerdy spectacles he wore for reading."I wasn't aware it was a double date. And you're not my type.
— Jennifer Echols, Endless Summer
Why do yo keep doing this?""Because I've wanted to be with you for three years, okay? That's why.
— Mandy Hubbard, Ripple
.. I suffered with you. I hurt with you. I bled with you -not only because we're bonded, but because the love I have for you." ~ Eric Northman in Dead in The Family.
— Charlaine Harris
i"ll always catch you when you fall." -Daniel ,, torment
— Lauren Kate
There’s a good kind of crazy, Kaylee,” he insisted softly, reaching out to wrap his warm hand around mine. “It’s the kind that makes you thinkabout things that make your head hurt, because not thinking about them is the coward’s way out. The kind that makes you touch people who bruise yoursoul, just because they need to be touched. This is the kind of crazy that lets you stare out into the darkness and rage at eternity, while it stares back atyou, ready to swallow you whole.
— Rachel Vincent, If I Die
And you are mine, and you will be mine. Theywill not get you. - Eric from Dead and Gone
— Charlaine Harris, Dead and Gone
[Colin to Sugar Beth] I put my heart on every page.
— Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Ain't She Sweet
I was shaking when our lips parted and he leaned his forehead against mine, his fingers carding through my hair, my hands on his face. "I won't let them," Rafael said. "I won't let anyone take you away. I'll protect you. I'll always protect you. I don't care how. I just will.
— Rose Christo, Gives Light
I can't give you the sunset, but I can give you the night.
— Erin McCarthy, High Stakes
in all the years we spend together, I never once regretted the fact that I had chosen her and that she had chosen me as well.
— Nicholas Sparks, The Wedding
For a chance with you, I can wait.
— Myra McEntire, Hourglass
She nodded and reached out to take my hand again. I turned to look at her fully, I didnt want to say it, but I felt I should. I'd never had a chance to say it to my sisters, to my mother and I'd always regretted it. "Just in case", I said, leaning down. For once the Laz remained respectful. It didn't want her. I wanted her. Knitting my fingers into her curls, I kissed her forehead. I limited myself to one word this time. "Goodbye.
— Lia Habel, Dearly, Departed
I still don't understand anything- exept that somehow I know that You are love. And that in my heart has been so great a love for Christy as I did not know could exist on this earth. You, God, must be responsible. You must have put it there. So what do I do with it now? 
— Catherine Marshall, Christy
it´s just...today has really sucked, and when you´re around stuff doesn´t seem so crappy - Will
— Elizabeth Scott, Perfect You
Her dad turned to me. "You. Follow Me.""Woof," I said.
— Jennifer Echols, Endless Summer
Think like a middle-aged man with OCD, a dead wife, and a teenage daughter.Think like a woman with three teenage sons who once ran a golf cart into the side of their granddad's house.""Cameron and Sean shouldn't have let me drive," Adam said in his own defense. "I was seven.""You shouldn't have ASKED to drive. You were seven.
— Jennifer Echols, Endless Summer
You were twisting your wet hair up into a ponytail, and then you saw us, and you smiled....""Then why didn't you-""Because you were smiling for him. And I would have had to have been an idiot to get in between that.
— Mandy Hubbard, Ripple
Stay away from her.""Okay.""Keep your hands off her.""I'll try."He scowled at me."I will," I said.
— Jennifer Echols, Endless Summer
Shanna, sweet Shanna. How can I tell you what you mean to me? When I saw you at the ball it was as if my heart started beating again. You lit up the room, bright in an ocean of black and white. And I thought- my life has been nothing but a dark, endless night. Then you came out like a rainbow and filled my black soul with color.
— Kerrelyn Sparks, How to Marry a Millionaire Vampire
Son," he said, "you monkeyed up.
— Jennifer Echols, Endless Summer
If you asked me to marry you all over again today I'd say yes, said Valentine.And if I had only met you for the first time today, I'd ask.
— Orson Scott Card, Xenocide
I need to explain all this to Adam in private. I can't get McGillicuddy to explain it to him. Something will be lost in translation.""Well, excuse me that I can't look at him all googly-eyed," my brother said."And he's liable to punch you," I said.
— Jennifer Echols, Endless Summer
Carol raised her hand slowly and brushed her hair back, once on either side, and Therese smiled because the gesture was Carol, and it was Carol she loved and would always love. Oh, in a different way now because she was a different person, and it was like meeting Carol all over again, but it was still Carol and no one else. It would be Carol, in a thousand cities, a thousand houses, in foreign lands where they would go together, in heaven and in hell. Therese waited. Then as she was about to go to her, Carol saw her, seemed to stare at her incredulously a moment while Therese watched the slow smile growing, before her arm lifted suddenly, her hand waved a quick, eager greeting that Therese had never seen before. Therese walked toward her.
— Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt
Baby, I could watch you watching paint dry, and I still wouldn’t be bored.” Garrett Graham, my own personal sweet-talker.
— Elle Kennedy, The Deal
i get a little romantic about the old Empire State. Just looking at it makes me want to play some Frank Sinatra tunes and sway a little. I have a crush on a building. I'd been in there several times but never to work. I always knew there were offices in there but the face never penetrated, really. You don't work in the Empire State Building. You propose in the Empire State Building. You sneak a flask up there and raise a toast to the whole city of New York.
— Maureen Johnson, 13 Little Blue Envelopes
[Kane to Rose] I'll never forget the way you looked walking toward me. I never thought that I'd have a woman like you in my life. It's all there etched in my brain. And now, the way the light pours over our hair, the way all that silk shines, so black it's nearly blue. The world disappears when I'm holding you.
— Christine Feehan, Ruthless Game
What did Kevin Ye get arrested for anyway? Didn't he steal a car?" "He stole the driver's ed car."I laughed. Then I saw how Adam was looking at me. "He gave it back." "They MAKE you give stuff back, Lori, after they arrest you for stealing it.
— Jennifer Echols, Endless Summer
I know the M-word makes you nervous, but yeah. I'm talking about the big, permanent friendship. A little different from what Joe and Charles had, though. See, I want to be the kind of best friends who make love every night, who share all their darkest secrets and favorite jokes, and maybe even someday make babies together. I know that kind of friendship requires hard work, but you know, I'm pretty good at hard work.~ Tom Paoletti, "The Unsung Hero
— Suzanne Brockmann
It had been dark at the beach for hours, he hadn't been smoking much and it wasn't headlights – but before she turned away, he could swear he saw light falling on her face, the orange light just after sunset that catches a face turned to the west, watching the ocean for someone to come in on the last wave of the day, in to shore and safety.
— Thomas Pynchon, Inherent Vice
Separation isn’t time or distanceit’s the bridge between usfiner than silk thread sharper than swords
— Nâzım Hikmet
Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?
— Vikram Seth, An Equal Music
It was a strange thing, this feeling of empathy. He'd never experienced it before. He realized that what hurt this woman hurt him as well, that what made her bleed caused a hemorrhage of pain within his soul.
— Elizabeth Hoyt, Wicked Intentions
I'm not stalking her," I insisted."I'm making sure she's safe. Besides, how could you stalk Lori McGillicuddy?She'd see you and come out to your truck and say, "Hi, I'm Lori. Are you my stalker? It's so neat to meet you! While you're stuck here watching my every move, can I bring you anything? Sweet tea?
— Jennifer Echols, Endless Summer
I believe I am becoming pathetic. I'll go further, I believe that I am in love with a flower-growing, wood-carving quarryman/carpenter/pig farmer. In fact, I know I am. Perhaps tomorrow I will become entirely miserable at the thought that he doesn't love me back - may, even, care for Remy- but at this precise moment I am succumbing to euphoria. My head and stomach feel quite odd. 
— Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
She moves me not, or not removes at least affection's edge in me.
— William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew
I want. I need. I ache. I burn. Burn with me." Ellysetta to Rain in Lord of the Fading Lands.
— C.L. Wilson
He sighed, then said, "So basically, you're stalking her.""I am NOT stalking her." I insisted."That's where you come in. If I followed her by myself, someone who did not understand the situation and did not realize that I am so responsible-"McGillicuddy snorted."- might mistake what I am doing for stalking.However, her big brother is with me. Therefore we are protecting her.
— Jennifer Echols, Endless Summer
Alone in my chamber, I fairly trembled with excitement. How could it be that I, who had never been kissed before, had kissed the Prince of Denmark himself, not once but many times? Did he really speak to me of love? It was beyond belief that I, humble Ophelia, should be wooed by Prince Hamlet. Surely I had imagined it.
— Lisa M. Klein, Ophelia
That's good. And speaking of spelling, tell me -- do you wrap your head in a towel after you shower?
— Nicholas Sparks, A Bend in the Road
Dear God, you are beautiful. I tried to forget, to pretend I did not need you, but it was no use. You haunt my waking hours and my dreams, and though I know if I stay with you my soul my soul will be lost and my life damned, I cannot stay away, nor can I put you from me. So come and let me drown in your bewitching angel’s eyes. Some things bought dearly are worth the price.
— Jennifer Blake, Tender Betrayal
I give you my name, my earthly possessions, and my eternal love. But of all the things I have, the thing I want most to give you are my eyes, these eyes that see how magnificently beautiful you are.
— Michelle Marcos
Stubble or what?"  Eyes still closed he chuckled. "I'm not shaving until our parents let us date again."  He kissed my cheek. "What if it takes... a... while?"  I asked struggling to talk. He'd made his way down to my neck. His tongue circled there slowly. "There are only six or seven weeks until August football practice starts right?"  "Hm." His mouth moved up my neck toward my ear. Oh. "Will you be able to stuff your beard into your helmet?" I croaked. In answer he put his lips on my ear. I forgot the next joke I'd planned to make and lost myself in Adam.
— Jennifer Echols, Endless Summer
He had held out shakily, like a tree that had been hacked down to its breaking point. But that kiss was the last swing, the final impact, and he gave in finally, felled.
— Sarah Blakley-Cartwright, Red Riding Hood
I'm a pretty forgetful guy, but everything she says, I remember. I remember what colour her hair ribbon was when we met on the first day of fifth grade. I remember that she loves orchids because they look delicate but aren't, really. From a single postcard she sent me when traveling with her family two summers ago. I remember what my name looks like in her handwriting.
— Adi Alsaid, Let's Get Lost
Did you know I dream about your hair? I use to say it was the color of the sun at sunset, but I'm wrong. It's brighter than the sun, just as you are.
— Julia Quinn
Walking with Murphythrough the bone-freezing chilltoward the bus stop,I start shivering.And somehow,when he slips his arm around meto warm me up,it feels right.Righter than anything ever has.
— Sonya Sones
Come on Princess," he sighs, as he scoops me up off the sand and carries me to my room. "I'm not going to be able to sleep, unless I know you're safe.
— Jillian Dodd, That Boy
A moment later, he plopped down on the sand beside her, and when they accidentally touched, Gabby had the briefest flash of them sitting together just like this on a hundred different weekends in the future.
— Nicholas Sparks, The Choice
Even if you break with me and crush my heart, I'm never getting back together with Dawn. I know that the world isn't flat now, I'm not going back.
— Rainbow Rowell, Landline
You make terrible, terrible plans." "Hey, " I protested. "One of my plans caught you didn't it?" "Yeah, but you meant to catch Sean." He took his hand off my shoulder. I waved his concerns away, along with a cloud of gnats that had found us in the forest. "You're getting lost in the details. Keep the big picture in mind.
— Jennifer Echols, Endless Summer
There was never an accident.Rebecca was not drowned at all. I killed her.I shot Rebecca in the cottage in the cove.I carried her body to the cabin, and took the boat out that night and sunk it there, where they found it today.It's Rebecca who's lying dead there on the cabin floor.Will you look into my eyes and tell me that you love me now?
— Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca
Adam thinks that you two are in an argument."My body zinged into alert mode. My mind didn't know what Mrs. Vader meant, but my body already did. Even Sean glanced over at her with a cautious look."He does?" I asked faintly."A bad one," she confirmed."How could we be in a bad argument without me even knowing about it?
— Jennifer Echols, Endless Summer
Everything changes, but my love for you never will. I’ve fought myself on this too long and I can’t pretend anymore. I can’t feign that I don’t want to talk to you, to reach out and brush the hair out of your eyes, or wipe a tear off your cheek. I want to hold you, to tell you how much I love you, to kiss you without repercussions.” His voice grew softer, electricity sparking in the air. “I’ve loved you since I met you, Evangeline, and I will love you for all of eternity.
— Angela Corbett
Better you than Cameron " McGillicuddy grumbled. "I know where Cameron's been." Sean snorted. Cameron said "I already told you I did NOT come on to Lori.
— Jennifer Echols, Endless Summer
Even though Sean still held my head down I was the only one who thought to ask"Who's driving the boat?" Over the motor I heard girls screaming at us the instant before we crashed.
— Jennifer Echols, Endless Summer
If I say I will protect you, I will."~Alexi de Warenne to Elysse O'Neill
— Brenda Joyce, The Promise
Oof!" Adam caught me all right, with the side of his head. I could tell by the feel of his skull on my foot as I kicked him. He grabbed me the best he could anyway, and we half landed, half fell in the pine needles.He lay facedown on the ground. I flopped him over on his back to make sure he was alive. If he had a concussion, we'd have to call the ambulance, which meant we'd get caught and he'd get sent to military school.On the bright side, maybe the military school would not take him if he had brain damage."I'm so sorry.""Worth it," he grunted. He rolled onto his feet like a ninja and grabbed my hand. "Hurry, before they release the hounds.
— Jennifer Echols, Endless Summer
You are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing.
— E.E. Cummings
I feel like men are more romantic than women. When we get married we marry, like, one girl, 'cause we're resistant the whole way until we meet one girl and we think I'd be an idiot if I didn't marry this girl she's so great. But it seems like girls get to a place where they just kinda pick the best option... 'Oh he's got a good job.' I mean they spend their whole life looking for Prince Charming and then they marry the guy who's got a good job and is gonna stick around.
— Blue Valentine
Fool! You may hate me...But I...I haven't stopped thinking of you for a single day.
— Rumiko Takahashi, InuYasha: Stolen Spirit
I'm an incurable romantic. The essence of romance is an unshakable conviction that next time will be different.
— Glen Cook
I'd like to shower and change clothes," she said. "Would you mind waiting for me a half hour?" The question seemed to amuse him. "Not at all," he said with exaggerated formality. "Please take all the time you need." Michael watched her walk away. Did he mind waiting a half hour for her? Not at all. He'd been waiting years for her.
— Judith McNaught
You are a child if you thought I didn’t know, for all your smothering yourself under that hot lap robe. Of course, I knew. Why else do you think I’ve been—”He stopped suddenly and a silence fell between them. He picked up the reins and clucked to the horse.
— Margaret Mitchell, Gone With the Wind
He turned back to Lara, his alert gaze raking over her tearful face. Somehow the solid reality of his presence eased her panic. He folded her in his arms, anchoring her against his chest, murmuring quietly into her hair.Sniffling, Lara reached inside his waistcoat until her palm rested over the steady beat of his heart. The sensation of his warm breath sinking down to her scalp me her quiver. It was so terribly intimate, crying in his arms... even more personal than making love. But he had never felt so much like a husband to her as he did in this moment. Quieting, she inhaled his familiar scent and let out a shaky sigh.
— Lisa Kleypas, Stranger in My Arms
No one has ever been given more loving and unconditional support than I have given by you. I love you too
— Stephen Morgan
Marry me, Esme. Please. Honor me. I will honor you as your husband never did. Our marriage would be a remedy against sin, if anyone could ever call it a sin to love you.”Sebastian Bonnington to Esme Rawlings
— Eloisa James, Fool for Love
All my happiness seems caught up in one of your smiles. - Jered Mandeville, 'Upon a Wicked Time
— Karen Ranney
Dorothy: Shut up, just shut up. You had me at "hello".- From Jerry Maguire, 1996
— Movie Quote
Taking his hand I said "Fank woo.""Hm " he laughed with his mouth closed.
— Jennifer Echols, Endless Summer
But did he know that I'd already forgiven him for having rejected me?
— Maryam Schonbeck, My Heresy
The wind languished. The floral curtain ceased flapping. The moonlight streamed through, lighting up her face. It was a young, animated face. At that moment, it touched a string, a peg, deep inside him.
— Qiu Xiaolong
I've always thought that men are more romantic than woman.
— Farahad Zama, The Wedding Wallah
Ashlinn was lovely to look upon, someone who could easily snub half of the highest-paid stars in Hollywood and break the hearts of the rest.
— Calista Lynne, We Awaken
You don’t fucking get it, do you, Sparks?” Out of sheer frustration, Ben thwacked the wall with his hand. Hard. So hard his palm stung. “I love you. I am so goddamned, madly in love with you, I can’t see straight.” Ben’s voice resonated through the offices, echoed in his own ears. “You’re the first thing I think about in the morning and the last thing I imagine before I fall asleep. I dream about you. Every single night. I live to see you, at the office, at home, anywhere. I just need to see your face. Hold your body. Touch your skin. I need you, Mel. More than I need air. You can’t walk away from me. You can’t love someone else.” He gulped in a breath and almost choked on the emotion clogging his throat, so when he spoke again his voice was scratchy, and much, much softer. “I screwed up. I made you choose. And I’m sorry. So desperately, pathetically sorry for that. But I can’t let you go. I can’t let him have you, because you’re mine. You were made for me, like I was made for you. We’re two peas in a pod, sweetness. We’re the same, you and I. We’re meant to be together.
— Jess Dee, Office Affair
I love her beyond reason.
— Janet Mullany, Improper Relations
Two princes. Fine men indeed. But neither is the prince of my heart.
— Coleen Murtagh Paratore, A Pearl Among Princes
Love is the mortar that holds the human structure together.
— Karen Casey
Maxim's voice, clear and strong, "Will someone take my wife outside?She is going to faint.
— Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca
You are a bit like that painting, Minnow. Remember how lovingly and carefully formed you are. Your thoughts, your talents, your memories, your mistakes.... they all make the complete canvas of you. Even though others may mistake your worth, you must never value yourself any less.
— Michelle Marcos
I hurt your feelings before. But then, I don’t think you were lacking in self-confidence. You must know that you’re beautiful. Your hair is so golden and you have the bearing of a young Venus. Kristen, it isn’t you. It’s me. I haven’t got any emotion left. I haven’t got what you need, what you want. Damn it, don’t you understand? I want you. I’m made out of flesh and blood and whatever else it is that God puts into men. I want you. Now. Hell, I could have wanted you right after I ripped another man away from you. I’m no better than he is, not really. Don’t you understand?
— Heather Graham, Dark Stranger
As I looked and looked, the living face became visible in the dead, the young in the old. This is what must happen to old married couples, I thought: the young man is preserved in the old one for her, the beauty and grace of the young woman stay fresh in the old one for him.
— Bernhard Schlink
I know, I know…there’s something cliché about that. The heroine initially wanting to clobber a protagonist male, but later realizing that he’s grown on her and she actually really likes him. Technically, I’m not supposed to find that appealing. But maybe real life is a lot more cliché than anyone wants to admit. Or maybe there’s just a fine, subjective line between the cliché and the poetic.
— Angela N. Blount, Once Upon a Road Trip
First times are always sacred. May we never run out of "firsts
— Truth Devour, Wantin