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You're my sister," he said finally. "My sister, my blood, my family. I should want to protect you"—he laughed soundlessly without any humor—"to protect you from the sort of boys who want to do with you exactly what I want to do."Clary's breath caught. "You said you just wanted to be my brother from now on.""I lied," he said. "Demons lie, Clary. You know, there are some kinds of wounds you can get when you're a Shadowhunter—internal injuries from demon poison. You don't even know what's wrong with you, but you're bleeding to death slowly inside. That's what it's like, just being your brother.""But Aline—""I had to try. And I did." His voice was lifeless. "But God knows, I don't want anyone but you. I don't even want to want anyone but you." He reached out, trailed his fingers lightly through her hair, fingertips brushing her cheek. "Now at least I know why."Clary's voice had sunk to a whisper. "I don't want anyone but you, either.
— Cassandra Clare, City of Glass
There was nowhere I could go that wouldn't be you.
— Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex
But do we know how to make love stay?'I can't even think about it. The best I can do is play it day by day.
— Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker
LinesI die but when the grave shall pressThe heart so long endeared to theeWhen earthy cares no more distressAnd earthy joys are nought to me.Weep not, but think that I have pastBefore thee o'er the sea of gloom.Have anchored safe and rest at lastWhere tears and mouring can not come.'Tis I should weep to leave thee hereOn that dark ocean sailing drearWith storms around and fears beforeAnd no kind light to point the shore.But long or short though life may be'Tis nothing to eternity.We part below to meet on highWhere blissful ages never die.
— Emily Brontë
Clinging to him desperately, Sara kept her mouth at his ear. "Listen to me." All she could do was play her last card. Her voice trembled with emotion. "You can't change the truth. You can act as though you're deaf and blind, you can walk away from me forever, but the truth will still be there, and you can't make it go away. I love you." She felt an involuntary tremor run through him. "I love you," she repeated. "Don't lie to either of us by pretending you're leaving for my good. All you'll do is deny us both a chance at happiness. I'll long for you every day and night, but at least my conscience will be clear. I haven't held anything back from you, out of fear or pride or stubbornness." She felt the incredible tautness of his muscles, as if he were carved from marble. "For once have the strength not to walk away,"she whispered. "Stay with me. Let me love you, Derek.
— Lisa Kleypas, Dreaming of You
There was nothing sweet or gentle in our last kiss; it was filled with sorrow and desperation, of the bitter knowledge that we could've had something perfect, but it just wasn't meant to be.
— Julie Kagawa, The Iron Daughter
Who ends up with their first real boyfriend? Yeah, no one.- Courtney
— Lauren Barnholdt, Two-Way Street
If you were going to die, I was going to die with you. I couldn't stop thinking it over and over as you screamed, as I tried to kill her: you were my mate my mate my mate.
— Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury
And to see the white flash of Klaus's eyes as he whirled on her. For one stunned instant she stared at him, and then lightning crackled.From an empty sky.
— L.J. Smith, Dark Reunion
Everything about Andrew was hot, from the hands holding him down to the mouth steadily taking Neil apart. Neil finally understood why his mother thought this was so dangerous.
— Nora Sakavic, The King's Men
I was afraid. Of getting hurt in other ways. To be truthful, I still am."His thumb stroked her cheek. "I would never hurt you.""I don't think you can promise me that." She squeezed his bruised fingers. "But it makes things a bit more equal, to know that I can hurt you, too."His gaze fell to her lips. He said simply, without any trace of irony, "You are killing me.
— Tessa Dare, One Dance with a Duke
Among my stillness was a pounding heart.
— Shannon A. Thompson, Seconds Before Sunrise
Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love on earth: the Blessed Sacrament … There you will find romance, glory, honour, fidelity, and the true way of all your loves upon earth.
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien
You Stole my loneliness. I may have given you wings, but you've become my gravity. I'll never be free of your force.
— Pepper Winters, Tears of Tess
Hades was the personification of dark and dangerous--a living, breathing Batman.
— P.C. Cast, Goddess of Spring
I caught his hand. “What do you want me to do?”Leaning down, he kissed the pulse beating on my neck just above the damaged skin. “Tomorrow, I need you to die.
— Priya Ardis, My Merlin Awakening
Our relationship wasn't the sun, the moon, the stars, but it wasn't bullshit, either.
— Junot Díaz, This Is How You Lose Her
I love you breathlessly, my amazing man.
— Paullina Simons, The Bronze Horseman
because being with you makes perfect sense
— Tim McGraw
And it is you, spirit--with will and energy, and virtue and purity--that I want, not alone with your brittle frame.
— Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
She turned to look at him, and he was already looking at her. “I’m going to miss you when I wake up,” she whispered, because she realized that she must have fallen asleep under the sun. Arin was too real for her imagination. He was a dream.“Don’t wake up,” he said.
— Marie Rutkoski, The Winner's Crime
I love you.”I stared stupidly at him. Was he joking again, reciting another line from my story? I didn’t remember writing this.He leaned in and kissed me. I didn’t respond for a few seconds. My mind lagged behind what my body was feeling.“Say it,” he whispered against my lips. “I know this is hard for you. Tell me.”“I love you.” Hearing my own words, I gasped at the rush of emotion.He put his hands on either side of my jaw and took my mouth with his.
— Jennifer Echols, Love Story
Falling in love is not a rational process. It can't be planned or avoided. It happens--for good or bad it simply happens. - Katrina Svensen
— Suzanne Selfors, Coffeehouse Angel
I don't want to be in love but you're makin' me
— Jonny Lang
Born to be wild; born to be free; nobody owns you; you are, a romantic tree.
— Santosh Kalwar
No need, no, need. Life is already too short to find it.
— Jessica Day George, Princess of the Midnight Ball
I'm a terrible prince. I should put my kingdom first and everything else second, but your first. I want you by my side every second, but I know I would crumble if I lost you.
— Shannon Hale, Enna Burning
If I gave you a pity position it wouldn't be in my office.
— Janet Evanovich, Eleven on Top
He smiled. "I suppose I thought we'd have a madly impractical, terrifyingly modern sort of marriage. One based on love. Not to mention dangerous undertakings and hair's-breadth escapes from burning buildings, high ledges and exploding sewers.""And bickering.""Always that, yes.""Assuming I want to marry at all.""True. I know of no good way of forcing you to do anything.""And you're mad enough to think it could work - one day?"He cupped her face in his hands. His smile was so brilliant it seemed to illuminate the room. "I think it would be heaven."She trembled, then. "You have a very strange idea of heaven.""Kiss me and see.
— Y.S. Lee, The Traitor in the Tunnel
Live, Princess, for me. I love You
— Molly McAdams, Stealing Harper
This time the fluttery feeling in my stomach was more intense. It made the inside of my thighs tingle and my breathing deepen.
— P.C. Cast
Miss Mitchell had a lovely voice, it was true, but Miss Mitchell speaking Italian was something celestial. Her ruby mouth opening and closing, the delicate way she almost sang the words, her tongue peeking out to wet her lips from time to time...Professor Emerson had to remind himself to close his mouth after it had dropped open.
— Sylvain Reynard, Gabriel's Inferno
Point is, maybe some people wouldn't want to be around me all day, but there are people out there who would. And they're smart and funny. And they like some of the same things I like and hate some of the things I hate, but they also introduce me to all kinds of new things. That's as close to 'meant to be' as I can imagine.
— Lauren Morrill, Meant to Be
The Night World isn't a place. It's all around us. The creatures of Night World are beautiful and deadly and irresitable to humans. Your best friend could be one-so could your crush.
— L.J. Smith
Sometimes limbs must be re-broken to set properly, her heart too needed to shatter anew before it could truly heal.
— Sherry Thomas, Not Quite a Husband
There was a time when our desire for each other would have landed us in an asylum or prison, had it not been sanctioned by mutual assent. True or false.
— Lawrence Krauser, Lemon
It all comes down to who is by your side and who is willing to stand up for love even when it seems impossible.
— Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember
More than anything." Rob persisted. "You'd crawl on your belly over broken glass for her. Easy.
— L.J. Smith, The Passion
Cam and I just broke up."Cam laughed, hugging me even tighter into his side.I huffed, trying to wriggle free. "What are you doing?""Getting back together with you.
— Samantha Young, Down London Road
Kalau kamu percaya takdir, aminkan dalam hati, kita bertemu lagi suatu hari nanti
— Robin Wijaya, Menunggu
أنا المجنون في زمنٍ بلا ليْلىفتأيْنَ تكونُ ليْلاتي؟
— فاروق جويدة, لو أننا لم نفترق
I had a dream about you last night. I was alone on a dark night and you came to me as a firefly. I knew it was you because you were the brightest.
— Crystal Woods, Dreaming is for lovers
She’d fallen into a deep silence once, when the sun appeared, and it was then he’d wondered most what she was thinking.
— Veronica Rossi, Under the Never Sky
Scars are but evidence of life," Coquette said. "Evidence of choices to be learned from...evidence of wounds...wounds inflicted of mistakes...wounds we choose to allow the healing of. We likewise choose to see them, that we may not make the same mistakes again.
— Marcia Lynn McClure, The Whispered Kiss
Never let a boy know you’re crazy about him. He’ll lose interest, and then you’ll be a loser.
— Hailey Abbott, Getting Lost with Boys
I'll follow you to the next life if I have to," he whispered harshly in her ear. "You'll never be free of me. I'll chase you through heaven and hell and beyond." He continued to whisper without stopping while his hands gripped her body close to his. "You stay with me, Holly," he muttered savagely. "Don't do this to me. You stay, damn you.
— Lisa Kleypas, Where Dreams Begin
Nothing good ever comes of love. What comes of love is always something better
— Roberto Bolaño, Amulet
Felicity," Mrs. Featherington interurupted, "why don't you tell Mr. Brdgerton about your watercolors?"For the life of him, Colin couldn't imagine a less interesting topic (except maybe for Phillipa's watercolors), but he nonetheless turned to the youngest Featherington with a friendly smile and asked, "And how are your watercolors?"But Felicity, bless her heart, gave him a rather friendly smile herself and said nothing but, "I imagine they're fine, thank you.
— Julia Quinn, Romancing Mister Bridgerton
Now, this is where I draw the line! It's bad enough everybody in town's going to be thinkin' I'm sleeping with a depressed, lice-ridden, hemorrhoidal foreigner who likes to be tied up and might be pregnant, although-since she's just about cornered the market on condoms-I don't know how that could have happened. But I will not-you listen to me, Emma!-I absolutely will not have anybody thinkin' a woman of mine needs a vaginal moisturizer, do you hear me?
— Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Lady Be Good
We were hooked when we woke.We had arms for each other.But I yearned to resumeMy dreams of another.
— Roman Payne
Our hearts are bound together,' he said, 'and I am free to decide who I love. And what I want. Nothing - not the pressure of my family, or what anyone else thinks - matters.
— Lee Monroe, Dark Heart Forever
I knew you would do me good in some way, at some time--I saw it in your eyes when I first beheld you.
— Charlotte Brontë
Hey!” I said, indignation filling me. “I’m immortal! Doesn’t that mean I won’t get saggy boobs and gray hair? Because if it doesn’t mean that, I want a refund—
— Katie MacAlister, Holy Smokes
Please. Forgive me. One more chance, Blaire. I want this. I want you.
— Abbi Glines, Fallen Too Far
And I know that when you get hurt, your first instinct is to run. But I also realized something else. No one has ever followed you when you did run. But I'm going to follow, and I'm going to keep following until you realize that you can trust me. I'm not going to let you run away from something that could be so great. That is so great. Marty, I love you.- Nate
— Kathy Love, Wanting Something More
Great. I'd been dumped in Hell's waiting room.
— Karen Chance, Touch the Dark
You look like the vamp who bled the cat.
— Kim Harrison, Every Which Way But Dead
You cold or something?' he said. She strained against him; she wanted to pass clear through him: 'It's a chill, it's nothing'; and then, pushing a little away: 'Say you love me.'I said it.'No, oh no. You haven't. I was listening. And you never do.'Well, give me time.'Please.'He sat up and glanced at a clock across the room. It was after five. Then decisively he pulled off his windbreaker and began to unlace his shoes.Aren't you going to, Clyde?'He grinned back at her. 'Yeah, I'm going to.'I don't mean that; and what's more, I don't like it: you sound as though you were talking to a whore.'Come off it, honey. You didn't drag me up here to tell you about love.'You disgust me,' she said.Listen to her! She's sore!'A silence followed that circulated like an aggrieved bird. Clyde said, 'You want to hit me, huh? I kind of like you when you're sore: that's the kind of girl you are,' which made Grady light in his arms when he lifted and kissed her. 'You still want me to say it?' Her head slumped on his shoulder. 'Because I will,' he said, fooling his fingers in her hair. 'Take off your clothes--and I'll tell it to you good.
— Truman Capote, Summer Crossing
When I'm with you, bells go off in my head like a moving truck that's backing up.
— Jodi Picoult, Vanishing Acts
Sydney, don't leave Adrian because of me.""It's more complicated than that," I said automatically."It's really not," she said. "From everything I've seen and heard, you're just afraid. You've always controlled every detail of your life. When you couldn't-like with the Alchemists-you found a way to seize back that control.""There is nothing wrong with wanting control," I snapped."Except that we can't always have it, and sometimes that is a good thing. A great thing, even," she added. "And that's how it is with Adrian. No matter how hard you try, you aren't going to be able to control your feelings for him. You can't help loving him, and so you're running away. I'm just an excuse.
— Richelle Mead, The Indigo Spell
No more, no less. I'm an idiot. I really need to let this crush go.
— Pittacus Lore, The Rise of Nine
He wanted to be a poet,' someone else put in while Maggie hugged Tim and patted his back. 'Said he'd only lacked the words to be one.
— Nora Roberts, Born in Fire
Blake took her face in his hands. “You let me touch you. Kiss you. Your skin? It feels like piano keys. My hands know just where to go.
— Debra Anastasia, Poughkeepsie
Now," said Brandons low, cold voice. "Lets not be rude eve.
— Rachel Caine, Glass Houses
Kyra." Fred caught Kyra's eyes. "I'm not in love with Ariana and I don't want half the kingdom.""You don't?"He shook his head. "But I might stick around for a little while longer. There are some interesting things in the Kingdom of Mohr.""Like what?""Like a certain funny and extremely talented potioner."Kyra took a breath. "I have to warn you, Hal isn't that great as a boyfriend. He's pretty self absorbed.
— Bridget Zinn, Poison
The saddest line you scraped in your diary was not that you cried but those moments when we both shared smile.
— Santosh Kalwar
He smiled. "How kind of you to confirm what I already know. Perhaps next you will introduce me to myself. I hear I am quite popular.
— Meredith Duran, Bound by Your Touch
Bliss, I don’t normally do things like that. But I was second-guessing everything about coming here, and you were everything I needed. I don’t know how many times I’ve stopped myself from coming over here and knocking on your door. And yes, seeing you with Cade was definitely motivation, but more than that... I just like you, Bliss. As a teacher. As a person. As a guy.
— Cora Carmack, Losing It
He held up the AK-47, the muscles in his arm bunching against the weight. “This is an assault rifle.” Then held up the handgun. “This is a semi-automatic pistol.” Then he gave a little thrust of his hips and looked down at his penis. “That is my gun. As you’ve discovered, it’s pumpaction like a shotgun , but it doesn’t fire bullets.
— Pamela Clare, Breaking Point
We could go back to your house. I can stay with you always. We can know each others bodies in every way, night after night. I could love you. I could work, you would not be poor. I would help you.
— Charlaine Harris, Dead to the World
She answered with a passion I didn’t expect & I was lost. In that moment our hearts beat as one. In that moment I knew she loved me." #Ren
— Colleen Houck, Tiger's Curse
I wrapped the unyielding woman I loved in my arms & kissed her slowly, hoping that some part of her would sense my absolute devotion." #Ren
— Colleen Houck, Tiger's Curse
Thrilled with the knowledge that she loved me, it took me a moment to realize that she was angry. I found her tantrum irresistible." #Ren
— Colleen Houck, Tiger's Curse
I don't deserve you. I'm not made for relationships. I know I'm going to fuck this up. I'm going to drive you away or do something to hurt you, and you'll be added to my list of people I screwed over. You should walk away now.
— M.A. Stacie, Unwritten Rules
Jessica, you are a pain in the arse, do you know that? If I were not so immensely fond of you, I should throw you out the window."She wrapped her arms about his waist and laid her head against his chest. "Not merely 'fond,' but 'immensely fond.' Oh Dain, I do believe I shall swoon.""Not now," he said crossly. "I haven't time to pick you up.
— Loretta Chase, Lord of Scoundrels
She was not sorry. And if it was the wine telling her that, then she would tell the wine the same thing tomorrow. She was not sorry.
— Mary Balogh, Slightly Wicked
Together, in that room, our childhood notions of love melted away. We discovered love was not a fairytale. Sometimes there were no happy endings, and when there were, you needed to work like hell to keep the happiness alive.
— Cristina Marrero, The Unsung Love Story
I want to kiss you again, Tess.”“Why?”He chuckled, low under his breath. “Why? Because you’re beautiful, and because I want you. And I think you want me too.
— Lara Adrian, Kiss of Crimson
A romantic man often feels more uplifted with two women than with one: his love seems to hit the ideal mark somewhere between two different faces.
— Elizabeth Bowen, The Death of the Heart
Who are you?" I asked."You know who I am," he replied. "I'm yours."~Clea / Sage, pg. 105
— Hilary Duff, Elixir
I never want to be apart from you,” he said. “I’m going to buy an island and take you there. A ship will come once a month with supplies. The rest of the time it will be just the two of us, wearing leaves and eating exotic fruit and making love on the beach . . .”You’d start a produce export business and organize a local economy within a month,” she said flatly.Harry groaned as he recognized the truth of it. “God. Why do you tolerate me?”Poppy grinned and slid her arms around his neck. “I like the side benefits,” she told him. “And really, it’s only fair since you tolerate me.
— Lisa Kleypas, Tempt Me at Twilight
I don’t want to be a widow, I don’t want Michael Bayning, and I don’t want you to joke about such things, you tactless clodpole!”As all three of them stared at her openmouthed, Poppy leapt up and stalked away, her hands drawn into fists.Bewildered by the immediate force of her fury—it was like being stung by a butterfly—Harry stared after her dumbly. After a moment, he asked the first coherent thought that came to him. “Did she just say she doesn’t want Bayning?”“Yes,” Win said, a smile hovering on her lips. “That’s what she said. Go after her, Harry.”Every cell in Harry’s body longed to comply. Except that he had the feeling of standing on the edge of a cliff, with one ill-chosen word likely to send him over. He gave Poppy’s sister a desperate glance. “What should I say?”“Be honest with her about your feelings,” Win suggested.A frown settled on Harry’s face as he considered that. “What’s my second option?
— Lisa Kleypas, Tempt Me at Twilight
I don’t understand how I could have believed you were a warm, affectionate, and tenderhearted person! You’re obviously as prickly as a porcupine and any man who comes close to you will end up with a face full of quills!
— Colleen Houck
For you, my love, I would endeavor to pluck the stars from the sky, only to shower them at your feet.”“How do you do that?’“Do what?”“Say things like that. That’s beautiful.”“I’ve spent years studying poetry, Mrs. Emerson. It’s in my DNA.
— Sylvain Reynard, Gabriel's Redemption
If she had learned anything in the past weeks it was that there was enough to be ashamed of in the course of a messy human life without being ashamed of loving someone. 
— Shannon McKenna, Behind Closed Doors
She leaned into me, and when I closed my eyes, I knew I wanted nothing more than to hold her this way forever.
— Nicholas Sparks, Dear John
If you were mine, I'd never leave you, Prudence. I couldn't.
— Anne Gracie, The Perfect Rake
He [Ranger] peeled my [Stephanie] clothes off and wrangled me into bed. And then suddenly he was inside me. He once told me that time spent with him would ruin me for all other men. When he said it, I thought it was an outrageous threat. I no longer though it outrageous.
— Janet Evanovich, Hard Eight
Marriage is a partnership, not a democracy.
— Nicholas Sparks, The Best of Me
You can’t go back. Can’t fix what broke. But you can go forward. And every step matters. Every one makes a difference.” She pushed away from the desk, cupped his face in her hands. “From where I’m standing, you’re the best step I ever took.
— J.D. Robb, Witness in Death
So you actually need spectacles,” Leo finally said.“Of course I do,” Marks said crossly. “Why would I wear spectacles if I didn’t need them?”“I thought they might be part of your disguise.”“My disguise?”“Yes, Marks, disguise. A noun describing a means of concealing someone’s identity. Often used by clowns and spies. And now apparently governesses. Good God, can anything be ordinary for my family?
— Lisa Kleypas, Married By Morning
I looked at Micah, who shrugged. I looked at Rafael, who shook his head. Nice that none of us knew why he was undressing.
— Laurell K. Hamilton, Narcissus in Chains
It's easy to look at people and make quick judgements about them, their present and their pasts, but you'd be amazed at the pain and tears a single smile hides. what a person shows to the world is only one tiny facet of the iceburg hidden from sight. And more often then not, it's lined with cracks and scars that go all the way to the foundation of their soul.
— Sherrilyn Kenyon, Acheron
If death is your lover, you don't got to be afraid ever that he will ever leave you
— Francesca Lia Block, Echo
At some point, our lips met and it was perhaps the most wonderful thing I'd ever experienced. And truly, I guess there wasn't just one kiss, but several. A polite frenzy. A mass migration of delicate wildebeest kisses. I remember them as one transcendent event, though.
— Dean Hale
I've never even been to Long Island
— Meg Cabot, Jinx
I told you we were meant to be," he says, still smiling, still so Finn, who was always here but who I just didn't see and now--Well, now I kiss him.
— Elizabeth Scott, Something, Maybe
I haven't had a lot of good, soft things in my life," he said against my forehead. "Not since my family sent me away. Apart from being your sire and feeling that pull to you, it's that goodness, that softness and warmth, along with the resolve and strength in you, that I love. Being turned hasn't taken that from you. If someone were going to design the perfect mate for me, it would be you. Even when you infuriate me with your pigheaded stubbornness and your temper and incredible lack of anything resembling self-preservation—""Stop describing me please.""You're the most fascinating, maddening, adorable creature I've ever met," he said, sighing and pushing my hair out of my eyes. "So, when I seem possessive or I'm raving like a lunatic, it's just that part of me is still very afraid that I'll lose that—that I'll lose you. I love you.
— Molly Harper, Nice Girls Don't Date Dead Men
You're a dream. Like everything else.
— Kelly Creagh, Nevermore
True love is finding your soulmate in your best friend
— Faye Hall, My Gift to You
This is what I want. This is the only thing I've ever wanted. Everything else—every single second of every single day that has come before this very moment, this kiss—has meant nothing.
— Lauren Oliver, Delirium
I'm infatuated with you, I cannot deny it. Physically speaking, you're a very attractive man. But I don't like you, the vast majority of the time. So far as I can gather, you behave abominably in public and are only marginally better in private. I only find you remotely tolerable when you're kissing me.
— Tessa Dare, One Dance with a Duke
I'll never forget the way he tastes. It's not anything I can describe, a little sweet and a whole lot of spice, and it feels, in that moment, absolutely right.
— Cynthia Hand, Hallowed
I’ll affect you slowlyas if you were having a picnic in a dream. There will be no ants.It won’t rain.
— Richard Brautigan, Loading Mercury With a Pitchfork
The fuse is lit. You can run all you want to but you leave a trail of gunpowder in your wake. There’s going to be a reckoning eventually.
— Colleen Houck
Damn, you're good,' he said and rolled onto his back. The man wasn't much for flowery speech, Alesandra thought with a smile. It didn't matter. She was arrogantly proud of herself because she'd pleased him. Perhaps she should give him a little praise too. She rolled onto her side to face him, put her hand on his chest directly over his pounded heart, and whispered. 'You're good, too. 'Tis the truth, you're the best I've ever had.' He opened his eyes to look at her. 'I'm the only one you've ever had, remember?' His voice was gruff with affection. 'I remember,' she said. 'No other man is ever going to touch you, Alesandra. You're mine.
— Julie Garwood, Castles
...and Jo laid the rustling sheets together with a careful hand, as one might shut the covers of a lovely romance, which holds the reader fast till the end comes, and he finds himself alone in the work-a-day world again.
— Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
You know, I never believed in fate until I met you... then I started thinking coincidence didn't have near so cruel a sense of humor
— Alwyn Hamilton, Rebel of the Sands
Long dormant feelings poured through my dried-up limbs and wound through me, slowly filling the emptiness. Like an irrigated field, I felt myself blossom and grow with new vigor. He was the sun, and the tenderness he showed me was life-giving water. 
— Colleen Houck
A handsome prince, such as yourself, deserves someone who is no less than one hundred percent dedicated to him.
— Colleen Houck
You had this all planned, didn’t you?' I accused. 'Thought you could come in here and seduce me like you do everyone else?' It wasn’t as if I could be angry, lying atop him as I was, but I tried.
— Kim Harrison, Every Which Way But Dead
It called to him, a sweet heady beacon of femininity, fertility, and fuckability. His three favorite f-words.
— Christine Warren, Wolf at the Door
I dodged behind Mac for cover and refused to take the bait. I glanced at my nonexistent watch. 'Oops, look at the time. Guess I have to be going now. Let's not do this again sometime, okay?'Before I could move, Pritkin was there, jamming the medallion into the skin of my upper arm.'Ow!'He looked at me expectantly. I glared at him. 'That hurt!'What do you see?'A big red mark,
— Karen Chance, Claimed By Shadow
Aubrey, crouching on a nearby counter, watched me with squinty eyes, apparently pondering why anyone would willingly immerse themselves in water ever, let alone for extended periods of time. 
— Richelle Mead, Succubus Blues
He looked at the beautiful woman frowning up at him and his cock did nothing. His eyes shot back to Zoe and damn if his cock didn't twitch happily. Trevor swallowed hard as realization hit.There was something wrong with his dick.
— R.L. Mathewson, Perfection
Let's still be friends" (things that are never true in a break up, but you have to say).
— Lauren Leto
How did I get here How did I end up in the arms of a boy I barely knew but knew I didn't want to lose I wondered what I would have thought of Andrius in Lithuania. Would I have liked him Would he have liked me
— Ruta Sepetys, Between Shades of Gray
And if you ever - and I do mean ever - try to leave me, I’m goin’ with you.
— Catherine Anderson, Cherish
Sweetheart, darling, dearest, it was funny to think that these endearments, which used to sound exceedingly sentimental in movies and books, now held great importance, simple but true verbal affirmations of how they felt for each other. They were words only the heart could hear and understand, words that could impart entire pentameter sonnets in their few, short syllables.
— E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
...what is romance, but a mutual pact of delusion? When the pact ends, there's nothing left.
— Zoë Heller, What Was She Thinking? [Notes on a Scandal]
Someone once told me love isn’t perfect—or predictable.
— Lauren Morrill, Meant to Be
I'm not the same person I was before, and I am deathly afraid I will never be her again...
— Jodi LaPalm, Still Life: a novella
I feel like I’m a disappointment to mankind,” he remarked woefully as he placed the shirt through my arms and began to pull it down over my breasts. “Someone this gorgeous should be on display in a museum.
— Karina Halle, Into the Hollow
It wouldn't have mattered if they were scratches or not," he says, his voice like liquid. "I was bitten during the escape from the house." My limbs go weak, everything inside me folding in collapsing on itself."I was already dead," he says, opening his eyes.
— Carrie Ryan, The Forest of Hands and Teeth
I loved you when you opened like a lily to the heat; you see I’m just another snowman standing in the rain and sleet who loved you with his frozen love, his second hand physique, with all he is and all he was a thousand kisses deep.
— Leonard Cohen
My heart is burning a hole in my chest and every time you speak to me, it keeps sinking, and I'm left with nothing but ashes. I wish she were talking to me, because the more she speaks to me, the more my heart flutters like a rising phoenix.-Karen Quan and Jarod Kintz
— Karen Quan, liQUID PROse QUOtes
When they see us dance. When they see how you look at me. When they see how I smile at you.
— Philippa Gregory, The Other Boleyn Girl
I must be besotted,” he said evenly. “I have the imbecilic idea that you’re the prettiest girl I’ve ever seen. Except for your coiffure,” he added, with a disgusted glance at the coils and plumes and pearls. “That is ghastly.”She scowled. “Your romantic effusions leave me breathless.
— Loretta Chase, Lord of Scoundrels
there are three kinds of people in the world: those who don't know and don't know they don't know
—  those who don't know and do know they don't know
If you die, angel, it means I'm already dead.
— Pamela Clare, Breaking Point
his yellow eyes gazed at me possessively -- I wondered if he realized that the way he looked at me was far more intimate than copping a feel could ever be.
— Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver
With every breath I take, I will always love you.
— Jennifer L. Armentrout, Every Last Breath
You don’t annoy me.” Carefully he rebuttoned the placket of her shirt. “I thought you did, at first. But now I realize it was more like the feeling you get when your foot’s been asleep. And when you start moving, the blood coming back into it is uncomfortable . . . but also good. Do you understand what I mean?”“Yes. I make your feet tingle.”A smile came to his lips. “Among other things.
— Lisa Kleypas, Love in the Afternoon
I wished the kiss could have gone on forever. Breaking the embrace, he ran a few fingers through my hair and down my cheek. He stepped back toward the door."I'll see you later, Roza""At our next practice?" I asked. "We are starting those up again, right? I mean, you still have things to teach me.""Yes. Lots of things.
— Richelle Mead, Frostbite
it taught me, that when a woman lets herself love, she loses. it taught me that to survive, you rely on yourself first and last." -adrianne"It should have also taught you that sometimes love has no threshold." -philip
— Nora Roberts, Sweet Revenge
Love expands your soul with something inexplicably fulfilling. If you die without ever having experienced it, you will miss life's only true joy
— Adele Ashworth, Winter Garden
I keep warning and warning, and nobody seems willing to listen. One of these days someone is going to wake up to the fact that I'm serious when I say never to attack my sister without looking over your shoulder for me. (Rhoan)
— Keri Arthur
I think this’ll definitely tide me over while we’re apart,”Bones laughed, dragging me into his arms with far more strength and quickness than was fair, considering I still had trouble making my limbs operate.“Oh, Kitten,” he murmured as his lips dragged down my throat. “You didn’t really think we were done, did you?
— Jeaniene Frost, This Side of the Grave
I love you more than the sun and the stars that i taught﻿ how to shine... You are mine, and you shine for me too I love you yesterday and today And tomorrow, I'll say it again..... I love you more......
— Matthew West
I love you, Katherine James. I love you with everything I am. You're the best thing that has ever happened to me. Remember that."Gabe Rossiter
— Pamela Clare, Naked Edge
Maybe we should go by tube', he said.A taxi'll come', she said. 'I'm in no hurry'.She remembered something a woman in Paris had told her once. A woman in her forties, much married, elegant, a little world-weary. There is nothing easier in this world, this woman had claimed, than getting a man to kiss you. Oh really? Eva had said, so how do you do that? Just stand close to a man, the woman has said, very close, as close as you can without touching - he will kiss you in one minute or two. It's inevitable. For them it's like an instinct - they can't resist. Infaillible.So Eva stood close to Romer in the doorway of the shop on Frith Street as he shooted and waved at the passing cars moving down the dark street, hoping one of them might be a taxi.We're out of luck', he said, turning, to find Eva standing very close to him, her face lifted.I'm in no hurry', she said.He reached for her and kissed her.
— William  Boyd, Restless
And we were kissing like drowning people breathe-- like suddenly we'd discovered something that has never been so sweet before that moment.
— Morgan Matson, Amy & Roger's Epic Detour
No bikinis on a first date.” He nods. “I’m sure that’s a rule. Or should be. For my sisters anyway.
— Huntley Fitzpatrick, My Life Next Door
I still love you. I will always love you, and that is all that matters. I will forgive you anything, and I will forgive you this.
— Melissa de la Cruz, Lost in Time
Just that I have loved you, even when I was nothing and no one to you, when you didn’t know my name and barely knew my face.- Leo
— Sherry Thomas
I love these pet names," she said, gazing soulfully up into his eyes, "Nitwit. Sap skull. Termagant. How they make my heart flutter!
— Loretta Chase, Lord of Scoundrels
Some people like the Jews, and some do not. But no thoughtful man can deny the fact that they are, beyond any question, the most formidable and most remarkable race which has appeared in the world.— Winston S. Churchill
— Ellen Brazer, Clouds Across the Sun
I want you cool and regal, earthy and impertinent, spoiling for a fight and abashed at your own temper. I want you flushed with exertion and rosy with sleep. I want you teasing and provocative, somber and thoughtful. I want every emotion, every mood, every year in a lifetime to come. I want you beside me, to encourage and argue with me, to help me and let me help you. I want to be your champion and lover, your mentor and student.
— Connie Brockway, The Bridal Season
Those words, that voice, had more power over me than any phantom ever could.
— Richelle Mead, The Ruby Circle
You see yourself as very average, ordinary. And there is nothing ordinary about you, Rachel." (Something Borrowed)
— Emily Giffin
Tsuyokini,honkiMutekini,sutekiGenki,yuuki!--Kusakabe Maron
— Arina Tanemura, 神風怪盗ジャンヌ 1
You matter.
— Suzanne Young, The Treatment
You’re stuck with me.”She sniffled. “Promise?”He rested his forehead against hers. “Cross my heart.
— Kaylea Cross, Out Of Her League
Tatiana said. "Go on with Dasha. She is right for you. She is a woman and I'm-" "Blind!", Alexander exclaimed. Tatiana stood, desolately failing in the battle of her heart. "Oh, Alexander. What do you want from me..." "Everything", he whispered fiercely.
— Paullina Simons, The Bronze Horseman
He seized me as boldly as a tiger captures his prey. There was no escape. And I didn't want to. I would have happily died in his clutches. I was his, and he made sure I knew it. My heart burst with a thousand beautiful blooms, all tiger lilies. And I knew with a certainty more powerful than anything I'd ever felt before that we belonged together.He finally lifted his head and murmured against my lips, "It's about bloody time, woman.
— Colleen Houck, Tiger's Quest
All day and all night my desire for you unwinds like a poisonous snake.
— Samar Sen
Love is a wild fire that cannot be contained by any mere element known to man.
— Cristina Marrero, The Unsung Love Story
Beatrix, do you know what happens to girls who ask such naughty questions?”“They’re ravished in haylofts?” she inquired hopefully.
— Lisa Kleypas, Love in the Afternoon
I guess I like things that take time and attention. More worthwhile that way.
— Huntley Fitzpatrick, My Life Next Door
It's b******* to think of friendship and romance being different. They're not. They're just variations of the same love. Variatons of the same desire to be close.
— David Levithan
People tend to criticize their spouse most loudly in the area where they themselves have the deepest emotional need.
— Gary Chapman, The Five Love Languages: How to Express Heartfelt Commitment to Your Mate
The most temptation I'd experienced had been with Tomas, the Senate's spy who had been feeding off me without permission, and Mircea, who was probably plotting some nefarious scheme. I have no taste in men.
— Karen Chance, Touch the Dark
In the beginning, being alone is always a choice. Then it's not a choice anymore. When did it stop being a choice? What is it in me that stopped choosing you, that moved into you instead so that I have to be with you in order to be with myself?
— Gunnar Ardelius, I Need You More Than I Love You and I Love You to Bits
Anna," he said, dragging his frosted fingers through my hair."Don't you know what it means when a boy pulls your hair at your birthday party?" "No." Just, then, i didn't know what anything meant.
— Sarah Ockler, Twenty Boy Summer
Marriage would change hardly anything between us, except that we would end our arguments in a much more satisfying way. And of course I would have extensive legal rights over your body, your property, and all your individual freedoms, but I don't see what's so alarming about that.
— Lisa Kleypas, Married By Morning
Don’t make a feller wait too long. A feller waiting on a gal can get ornery’er than a huntin’ dog that’s tree’d it’s squirrel.
— Colleen Houck
It's about time! It's supposed to be a ritual, not a marathon.
— Karen Chance, Claimed By Shadow
You're so beautiful. I can't believe you're almost mine.
— Debra White Smith, First Impressions
Why?" I shrieked, hitting him again and again, and again, the sound of the blows thudding against his chest. "Why, why why!".Because I was afraid!" He got hold of my wrists and threw me backward so I fell across the bed. He stood over me, fists clenched, breathing hard.I am a coward, damn you! I couldna tell ye, for fear ye would leave me, and unmanly thing that I am, I thought I couldna bear that!"~~~~~~~~~You should have told me!"And if I had?, You'd have turned on your heel and gone without a word. And having seen ye again--I tell ye, I would ha' done far worse than lie to keep you!"Voyager
— Diana Gabaldon
Just tell him to keep his hands to himself and his python in his pants.
— Evangeline Anderson, Claimed
Oh diary, I love her, I love her, I love her so much. Jordana is the most amazing person I have ever met. I could eat her. I could drink her blood. She's the only person I would allow to be shrunk to microscopic size and explore me in a tiny submersible machine. She is wonderful and beautiful and sensitive and funny and sexy. She's too good for me, she's too good for anyone! All I could do was let her know. I said: "I love you more than words. And I am a big fan of words.
— Joe Dunthorne, Submarine
Everything changes except the love.
— Santosh Kalwar
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." A chilly gust of wind lifter his hair and sent a shower of golden leaves glimmering down around him. He spred out his arms, letting them fall into his hands. He looked like a dark angel in an eternal autumn wood. "Did you know you get one happy day for everyone you catch?"I didn't know what he meant, even after he opened his fist to show me the quivering leaves crumpled in his palm.One happy day for every falling leaf you catch." Sam's voice was low.I watched the egdes of the leaves slowly unfold, fluttering in the breeze."How long did you wait?"It would have been romantic if hr'd had the courage to look into my face to say it, but instead, he dropped his eyes to the ground and scuffed his boots in the leaves- countless possibilities for happy days- on the ground. "I haven't stopped."And I should've said something romantic too, but i didn't have the courage, either. So instead, I watched the shy way he was chewing his lip and studying the leaves, and said, "That must've been very borring.
— Maggie Stiefvater
I read the title from the cover. ' 'The joy of... crap.' ' I read the rest of the full title of the thick, nondescript volume to myself and felt myself redden.Noah turned over on to his side and said with mock seriousness, 'I have never read 'The Joy Of Crap'. Sounds disgusting.' I blushed deeper. 'I have, however, read 'The Joy Of Sex.' ' He continued, a smile transforming his face. 'Not in a while, but I think it's one of those classics you can come back to again... and again.
— Michelle Hodkin, The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer
He moves suddenly so that his hand is cupping my sex, and one of his fingers sinks slowly into me. His other arm holds me firmly in place around my waist. “This is mine,” he whispers aggressively. “All mine. Do you understand?” He eases his finger in and out as he gazes down at me, gauging my reaction, his eyes burning.“Yes, yours…”Abruptly, he moves, doing several things at once: Withdrawing his fingers, leaving me wanting, unzipping his fly, and pushing me down onto the couch so he’s lying on top of me.“Hands on your head,” he commands through gritted teeth as he kneels up, forcing my legs wider…“We don’t have long. This will be quick, and it’s for me, not you. Do you understand?Don’t come, or I will spank you,” he says through clenched teeth.
— E.L. James, Fifty Shades of Grey
Grace stopped in the door, dimly silhouetted by the dull gray morning light, and looked back at me, at my eyes, my mouth, my hands, in a way that made something inside me knot and unknot unbearably.I didn't think I belonged here in her world, a boy stuck between two lives, dragging the dangers of the wolves with me, but when she said my name, waiting for me to follow, I knew I'd do anything to stay with her.
— Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver
I know my heart. It has always been yours, Kate. Always.
— Julianne Donaldson, Blackmoore
..he wanted her.And at another time, as another man, he would have her. Without hesitation. As lover. . . as more.
— Sarah MacLean
We all romanticize the people we adore.
— John Green
If you don't do anything, you simply end up overwhelmed by something happening.
— Matsuri Hino
There is nothing more beautiful than a vulnerable heart in open hands.
— Amanda Mosher, Better to be able to love than to be loveable
What is real and what is not is for your heart to decide and for your heart to know.
— Colleen Houck, Tiger's Curse
She opened her mouth to answer, but he was already kissing her. She had kissed him so many times—soft gentle kisses, hard and desperate ones, brief brushes of the lips that said good-bye, and kisses that seemed to go on for hours—and this was no different. The way the memory of someone who had once lived in a house might linger even after they were gone, like a sort of psychicimprint,herbody rememberedJace.Remembered the way he tasted, the slant of his mouth over hers, his scars under her fingers, the shape of his body under her hands.
— Cassandra Clare, City of Lost Souls
She picked up the book and then walked back past him into the tent, but as she did so, she brushed the top of his head lightly with her hand. He closed his eyes at her touch, and hated himself for wishing that what she said was true: that Dumbledore had really cared.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Hermione turned and beamed at Harry; her eyes, too, were full of tears.‘…then I declare you bonded for life.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
I tried to think of something to say. Excuse me? Hello? Marry me? Anything would have done.
— Rick Riordan, The Red Pyramid
...whether he stayed or left, whether they walked the same path or not. They could live on opposite sides of the world, and she would still be his.
— Lisa Kleypas, Mine Till Midnight
It doesn’t matter. I love you. That’s it. That’s all. I hope to hell it’s enough.
— Maya Banks, No Place to Run
Cam held her closer. "Marry me, Amelia. You're what I want. You're my fate." One hand slid to the back of her head, gripping the braids and ribbons to keep her mouth upturned. "Say yes." He nibbled at her lips, licked at them, opened them. He kissed her until she writhed in his arms, her pulse racing. "Say it, Amelia, and save me from ever having to spend a night with another woman. I'll sleep indoors. I'll get a haircut. God help me, I think I'd even carry a pocket watch if it pleased you.
— Lisa Kleypas, Mine Till Midnight
You naked in my bed is even more unbelievably beautiful than I thought it would be... and trust me I've thought about it. A lot.
— Abbi Glines, Fallen Too Far
And then to Leo’s surprise, Catherine smiled at him. A sweet, natural, brilliant smile, the first she had ever given him. Leo felt his chest tighten, and he went hot all over, as if some euphoric drug had gone straight to his nervous system.It felt like … happiness.He remembered happiness from a long time ago. He didn’t want to feel it. And yet the giddy warmth kept washing over him for no reason whatsoever.“Thank you,” Catherine said, the smile still hovering on her lips. “That is kind of you, my lord. But I will never dance with you.”Which, of course, made it the goal of Leo’s life.
— Lisa Kleypas, Married By Morning
I want to take my time with you - to learn … every inch of you. And this apartment has very, very thin walls. I don’t want to have an audience” he added as he leaned down again, brushing his mouth over the cut at the base of her throat, “when I make you moan, Aelin.
— Sarah J. Maas, Queen of Shadows
Scholars, theologians, and even poets have yet to be able to truly describe and touch upon the beauty, romance, and magic of a relationship built on 100% authenticity
— Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free