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I'm still trying to decide how I feel about the fact that you knew about this before I did.""Don't be disappointed," Jack said. "The fact that I've been ridiculously proud of you for days doesn't change how excited you should be about this. Besides, I pretty much know everything. You should probably just start getting used to it.""And on that note, I'm hanging up," Cameron said."Rushing me off so you can call Collin next?" Jack teased."No" she said emphatically. Damn, he really did know everything.
— Julie James, Something About You
It's taken me all this time, all this loss, to realize what really matters is now.
— Suzanne Young, The Treatment
Suffer love! A good ephitet! I do suffer love indeed, for I love thee against my will.
— William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
Sana'y hindi umiikot ang mundo at tumatanda ang panahon.- Jea
— Martha Cecilia, Somewhere Between Lovers and Friends
Then you came and I started to feel again. I started to think there was a reason I survived, that you were my reason. But nothing's so simple, is it? I didn't protect you. Here you are hurting so bad, and I can't even help. I'm just here and I need you. That's all it comes to. I need you to be brave when I haven't been. I know how hard it is. Look at me. Look at what's happened to me. Jesus, I feel like I'll be crying for the next century." He bent his head, pressed his tear-wet cheek to her dry cold skin. "But I'm here. I'm not hiding anymore. Princess, I'm asking you. Come back to me. You're my life.
— Laura Kinsale, Seize the Fire
When I turn back to Jase, he’s again beaming at me. “You’re nice.” He sounds pleased, as if he hadn’t expected this aspect of my personality.
— Huntley Fitzpatrick, My Life Next Door
Robert, I’m sorry that you feel so strange, but I’m not sorry that you’re feeling it because of me,” I whispered, my heart feeling a familiar twinge as I continued, “but even if you hadn’t felt it, it would not change the way I feel about you.
— S.L. Naeole, Falling From Grace
He won't be one of those girlishly pretty men with curly gold hair...He'll be dark, dangerous, too. Brave, certainly, but not without flaws. I like my heroes human.
— Nora Roberts, Enchanted
And to think of all the colors in the world, blood chose to be red.
— Nelou Keramati
A laugh jumps out of my mouth, surprising me. I can’t even remember the last time I laughed and it puts me on edge. I suddenly want to do the same thing to her. Let her see how it feels to teeter on that cliff.
— Nyrae Dawn, Charade
Yeah, cause that would be a smart choice. So, I should just forget about the whole lying to me thing when you pronounce you will never do it again?” “Yes.” “You’d have a better chance getting a donkey to shit gold.
— Elizabeth J. Kolodziej, Witch Devotions
the battered woman--for she wore a skirt--with her right hand exposed, her left clutching at her side, stood singing of love--love which has lasted a million years, she sang, love which prevails, and millions of years ago, her lover, who had been dead these centuries, had walked, she crooned, with her in May; but in the course of ages, long as summer days, and flaming, she remembered, with nothing but red asters, he had gone; death's enormous sickle had swept those tremendous hills, and when at last she laid her hoary and immensely aged head on the earth, now become a mere cinder of ice, she implored the Gods to lay by her side a bunch of purple heather, there on her high burial place which the last rays of the last sun caressed; for then the pageant of the universe would be over.
— Virginia Woolf
Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.
— George Jean Nathan
Have you any other objection than your belief of my indifference?"- Elizabeth Bennet
— Jane Austen
If for some reason we get separated, I want you to wait for me. I’ll find you, I promise. - Gabriel Emerson
— Sylvain Reynard, Gabriel's Inferno
That settles it, no more books about vampire before bedtime.
— Amanda Ashley
For this was the round of love: fear which leads on desire, tenderness and fury, and that brutal anguish which triumphantly follows pleasure.
— Françoise Sagan, Bonjour tristesse
I generally find subtlety a waste of time.
— Cindy Gerard, To the Brink
I want him to look in the mirror and smile, not scowl. I need him to not think of himself as a monster. I need him to see the real him, because if he doesn’t pull himself out of the villain role, it will destroy him, and I’ll just be left with ashes. I just needed to get it all out because I feel like I’m drowning, and it’s hard to keep myself above water,especially when I’m fighting against the current to save him rather than myself.
— Anna Todd, After Ever Happy
And there, in the midst of blinding orange, yellow, and white flames, our forever begins.
— A.G. Howard, Ensnared
Lie beside me, oh my beloved! For thy thorns are more pleasurable than the petals of the world.Hold me in thy arms of hope, for the truth of separation can rest tonight.
— Faraaz Kazi
If I say your voice is an amber waterfall in which I yearn to burn each day, if you eat my mouth like a mystical rose with powers of healing and damnation, If I confess that your body is the only civilization I long to experience… would it mean that we are close to knowing something about love?
— Aberjhani, Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black
يؤلمني أنَّ كلَّ الأشياء ظلَّت وفيةً، إلا أنتِ.
— محمد حسن علوان, سقف الكفاية
What’s your favorite place to visit?” He absently answered, “Wherever you are.” “Bowen, five things about you can’t all be about me.” But you’re the only good thing that I’ve got.
— Kresley Cole, Wicked Deeds on a Winter's Night
We come together, we create our families, we chose our mates out of the desire to form a life together. Love takes many forms, wears many faces, but when it's real, when it touches your heart, you will know it and--with hope--embrace it. Love is stronger than hate, love is stronger than anger. Love is stronger than all artificial divisions that exist n our world.
— Yasmine Galenorn, Demon Mistress
Did you miss me?’“A little bit,” she said with a shrug.“You have tears running down your cheeks,” he said with a grin. “I think you missed me more than a little.
— Robyn Carr, Wild Man Creek
They say love is blind...but it isn't. Love is perfect sight. Love is the ability to see a person, I mean really see him-his strengths, his weaknesses, his flaws, all his past triumphs and mistakes-and view that person not as the world says you're supposed to see him, but as you see him-as that special someone you know you will always embrace, body and soul, no matter what anyone else says or thinks  I know I can't tell anyone what I've been through. I know they wouldn't understand. They don't see him the way that I see him. All they know is the legend, the darkness. They don't know the inner beauty, the warmth and the joy more intense than anything I ever thought was possible to experience. They don't know the truth behind the name. My angel. My only. Lucifer.
— Marlon Pierre-Antoine, Wandering Stars
He felt like home.
— JoAnne Kenrick, When A Mullo Loves A Woman
Alexander tilted his head and kissed her deeply on the lips. He let go of her hands, and she wrapped her arms around his neck, pressing herself against him. They kissed as if in a fever... they kissed as if the breath were leaving their bodies.
— Paullina Simons, The Bronze Horseman
She shook her head as she confessed, "I want it so much, I'm afraid to hope." "Never be afraid to hope," Rohan said gently. "It's the only way to begin." -Rohan to Win
— Lisa Kleypas, Mine Till Midnight
Once, he hadn't been able to touch her without causing himself pain. Now, it only hurt when he didn't touch her.
— Nalini Singh, Play of Passion
Goodness had nothing to do with it.
— Mae West, She Done Him Wrong
So you want me to go to a human orgy, where I will not be welcome, and you want us to leave before I get to enjoy myself? ~Eric Northman
— Charlaine Harris, Living Dead in Dallas
That's what came from having romance in your soul. You believe in things like love at first sight and perfect presents.
— Dorothy Koomson, My Best Friend's Girl
Miss Bridgerton,” he said, “the devil himself couldn’t scare you.”She forced her eyes to meet his. “That’s not a compliment, is it?”He lifted her hand to his lips, brushing a feather-light kiss across her knuckles. “You’ll have to figure that out for yourself,” he murmured.To all who observed, he was the soul of propriety, but Hyacinth caught the daring gleam in his eye, and she felt the breath leave her body as tingles of electricity rushed across her skin. Her lips parted, but she had nothing to say, not a single word. There was nothing but air, and even that seemed in short supply.And then he straightened as if nothing had happened and said, “Do let me know what you decide.”She just stared at him.“About the compliment,” he added. “I am sure you will wish to let me know how I feel about you.”Her mouth fell open.He smiled. Broadly. “Speechless, even. I’m to be commended.”“You—”“No. No,” he said, lifting one hand in the air and pointing toward her as if what he really wanted to do was place his finger on her lips and shush her. “Don’t ruin it. The moment is too rare.
— Julia Quinn, It's in His Kiss
When he kissed me, his lips soft and careful, it was all the thrill of our first kiss and all the practiced familiarity of the accumulated memory of all our kisses.
— Maggie Stiefvater, Linger
When they’re together, the world could fall apart around them and they’d never notice or care as long as they have each other.
— Simone Elkeles, Rules of Attraction
Who did she know in Raleigh who took the time off to fix a house? Or read Whitman or Eliot, finding images in the mind, thoughts of the spirit? Or hunted dawn from the bow of a canoe? These weren't the things that drove society, but she felt they shouldn't be treated as unimportant. They made living worthwhile.
— Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
Frowning, she looked up. "You can't want to ravish me every time we meet."Oh, yes, he could. Demon gritted his teeth...
— Stephanie Laurens, A Rogue's Proposal
Love is a vessel that contains both security and adventure, and commitment offers one of the great luxuries of life: time. Marriage is not the end of romance, it is the beginning.
— Esther Perel, Mating in Captivity: Reconciling the Erotic and the Domestic
She doesn’t need the pack. She doesn’t need me.”I shot to my feet. “That’s not true,” I said hotly.He tilted his head a little, his eyes meeting mine. His eyes softened. “I misspoke,” he said in a steady voice. “She doesn’t need me to make sure she has enough food or a place to live-that is my privilege, but she doesn’t need me to do that. She doesn’t need me to keep her safe or to make her a whole person. She doesn’t need me to do anything except love her. Which I do.
— Patricia Briggs, Fire Touched
Bet you ten bucks we make it."What are the odds? she thought, and realized with sudden, blinding clarity that she wouldn't take the other side of that bet, that only a loser would bet against them. This is really it, she thought, amazed. This is really forever. I believe in this."Min?" he said, and she kissed him, putting all her heart into it. "No bet," she said against his mouth. "Your odds are too good.""Our odds are too good
— Jennifer Crusie, Bet Me
Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.
— Benjamin Disraeli
I shan't mind if you don't," he agreed. "But I'll not let you go, Prudence. Til not pester you, but know this: I will wait until you choose to listen to your heart.""Pshaw." It was a feeble effort. She took a deep breath and tried again. "Humbug! How can you presume to know my heart?"He smiled a slow, devastating smile. "You are my heart." He lifted her hand and kissed it. "And our hearts beat in tune. I know it—I, who used not to believe in such things. And you know it.
— Anne Gracie, The Perfect Rake
His right ear still held both studs, and I wondered who had the missing earring. I would have asked, but was afraid he’d tell me Ivy had it.
— Kim Harrison, A Fistful of Charms
Romantic haste in drama bringstears and sighs when the hero diesbut the curtain fall is finalwhen in life we take the tragic wayThe sunset too is a glorious thingbut with it ends the day.
— C.P. Klapper, The Washington Poems
Man is the candle light and a woman is the moonlight. They live far away but can grow together during lonesome nights. 
— Santosh Kalwar
Jase props himself up on an elbow, looking at me for a minute without saying anything. His face gets an unreadable expression, and I wish I could take back walking over.Then he observes, “I’m guessing that’s a uniform.”Crap. I’d forgotten I was still wearing it.
— Huntley Fitzpatrick, My Life Next Door
He leaned upon her as if there was no other support anywhere in the world, and she held him as if she would undertake no other task for all eternity.
— Sharon Shinn, Angelica
The morning will come In the press of every kiss, With your head upon my chest Where I will annoy you With every waking breath Until you decide to wake up.
— Coheed and Cambria
Wars fought over a face like this,” he murmured like he was talking to himself, my heart stopped beating and his thumbs moved lightly across my cheeks. “A man would work himself into the ground for it, go down to his knees to beg to keep it, endure torture to protect it, take a bullet for it,” his eyes came to mine, “poison his brother to possess a face like this.
— Kristen Ashley, Knight
She nodded, grabbed her purse out of the drawer and skedaddled, walking like she was on a catwalk, one foot in front of the other, her ass swaying under the skirt of her expensive, tailored suit.Bitch. I thought again, watching her go.“No comparison,” Luke said after the door closed behind Dawn and I turned to him.“Excuse me?”“Dawn’s a man eater. You’re not. No comparison,” Luke answered and I didn’t know how to take that.“Is that good?”The half-smile came back.“Most men prefer to do the eating.”Holy fucking cow.
— Kristen Ashley, Rock Chick Redemption
You make the rest of the beautiful things in the world cry for even trying at all. You make it hard for me to breathe.
— Debra Anastasia, Poughkeepsie
You + Mesaw this...AMERICAThank you for finding America with me
— Morgan Matson, Amy & Roger's Epic Detour
My ideas about vampires may be romantic, but your attitudes toward women need a major overhaul.
— Deborah Harkness, A Discovery of Witches
No, not really. But …” Okay, I couldn’t help but gloat a little. “She likes me.”Samedi didn’t even look at me. “Well of course, you’ve had that bloody uniform on all day. I was half ready to tell you how much I liked you.
— Lia Habel, Dearly, Departed
Are you going to kiss me?" I blabbered stupidly."I'm working up the nerve," he said softly.
— Liz Reinhardt, Double Clutch
When she opened her door, Levi was sitting in the hallway, his legs bent in front of him, hunched forward on his knees. He looked up when she stepped out.“I’m such an idiot,” he said.Cath fell between his knees and hugged him.“I can’t believe I said that,” he said. “I can’t even go nine hours without seeing you.
— Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl
No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.
— H.L. Mencken
She shook off the self-recrimination. What-ifs and could-have-beens were not the way to move forward. She knew that from experience.
— Judi Fennell, In Over Her Head
I’m not a woman you bring home to Mother, pick out china patterns with, or Mary forefend, breed. I’ve seen a chunk of the universe, true, but there’s still so much more to see. I doubt I’ll ever cure this wanderlust, and I’m content with dedicating my life to failing to sate it... He’s never going to sit at my feet and write me poems, which is good because I hate poetry, except dirty ones that rhyme.
— Ann Aguirre, Grimspace
Nellie grinned. "I always wanted to go to Venice. It's supposed to be the romance capital of the world.""Sweet," put in Dan. "Too bad your date is an Egyptian Mau on a hunger strike."The au pair sighed. "Better than an eleven-year-old with a big mouth.
— Gordon Korman, One False Note
You realize that is you allow me to court you, all your opposition to marriage is going to have to be reconsidered."She smiled, feigning innocence."What opposition to marriage?""Excellent.""But I'm thinking we should have a long courtship.""Why?" He looked surprised."Because i find I've developed a taste for adventure.""That sounds dangerous. Not at all in character for a delicate flower."She laughed." We know I've never been good at being a delicate flower. Besides, it shan't be too dangerous.""How can you be so sure?"She smiled brilliantly at him, taking his breath away."Because, on my next adventure, I'll have you by my side.
— Sarah MacLean, The Season
Will you be my forever, Donia?
— Melissa Marr, Darkest Mercy
You realise you’re going to owe me dinner after this, right?”“How does McDonald’s sound?”“Inadequate.
— Sarah Mayberry, Her Best Friend
Humor was the enemy of desire.
— Arthur C. Clarke, 2010: Odyssey Two
[Bobby Tom] finally understood Gracie's function in his life. She was God's joke on him.
— Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Heaven, Texas
We are meant to be.” He pressed his lips to mine again; against myself, against my worry, I once again succumbed to the power of his kiss. “I know that now. Our love is stronger than magic, stronger than the laws of all Feyland. It will survive this...whatever the future brings.” - Prince Kian, Silver Frost.
— Kailin Gow, Silver Frost
Blake took a small roll from the tray on the table, then put it back in favor of a larger one. And maybe a little butter. It certainly couldn't hurt. And jam...no, he drew the line at jam. She was a spy, after all.
— Julia Quinn, To Catch an Heiress
Patti told me that to truly love someone, you must hold them in an open hand. That was how I needed to love Kai. It was necessary to uncurl my fingers and let him go.
— Wendy Higgins, Sweet Evil
My house seems remarkably full of people," he observed. "Is it possible we were expected.
— Georgette Heyer, These Old Shades
I'm not asking you for a second chance. I know better than that. But you've got no right to ask me to settle for sex then expect me to give up the one thing that's kept me going. I gave you up, now I'm taking what's left.”“You didn't give me up,” she tossed back. “You never wanted me.”“I never wanted anything the way I wanted you. I loved you.” He dragged her painfully to her toes. “I've always loved you. I cut my own heart out when I sent you away.
— Nora Roberts, The Reef
My soul will always find its way to yours because home is where the heart is.
— Truth Devour, Wantin
How could you fall in love with a three inch worm?
— Stephenie Meyer, The Host
You're the one who made it seem like we were doing something wrong. Maybe you still feel like that, because for whatever reason, you think I'm not good enough for you. But I like you, okay? I've liked you from the very beginning.""It was never going anywhere""Because you wouldn't let it go anywhere.
— Siobhan Vivian, Not That Kind of Girl
He would ask nothing else from life if he would be allowed to protect and cherish her for the rest of his.
— Julie Anne Long, What I Did For a Duke
You're my wings. You made me fly.
— Pepper Winters
Every universe I’ve created lately, your face keeps popping up in it. And I thought that if you can’t be cool with that, then I wouldn’t hate you, but I might need some time for myself until we’ve had enough distance that I can imagine made-up worlds without you automatically appearing.
— Adam Silvera, History Is All You Left Me
Never be afraid to tell me anything,” he whispered against her hair. “No matter how ashamed you might feel. I’ll never judge you, Rachel. I love you.
— Maya Banks, The Darkest Hour
There’s a part of me which has always wanted to hear a man say, "Let me take care of you forever," and I have never heard it spoken before. Over the last few years, I’d given up looking for that person, learned how to say this heartening sentence to myself, especially in times of fear. But to hear it from someone else now, from someone who is speaking sincerely...
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
I would actually write books totally full of nothing BUT kissing scenes, but apparently people like books to have, like, "plots" or whatever.
— Rachel Hawkins
Dad" I pleaded, "this is so [cuss word you never, ever say in front of your mother] ridiculous.
— Jennifer Echols, Endless Summer
Love one another. Love yourself. Then love will find you whole not half.
— K. Taylor
When I realized I was going to die, the only thing I could think about was you and what an idiot I’d been for not telling you how I felt about you. I think I’ve loved you from the moment you lifted that awful blindfold off my face. I opened my eyes, and there you were, the bravest, most beautiful woman I’ve ever known. You set me free Natalie. In so many ways, you set me free.
— Pamela Clare, Breaking Point
You'll walk with me out on the wire, cuz baby, I'm just a scared and lonely rider, but I gotta know how it feels... I want to know love is wild, babe, I want to know love is real.
— Bruce Springsteen
Just remember that the only question in a house is who is to rule. The rest is only dancing around that, trying not to look it in the eye.
— Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless
You don't want me to feel obligated? Well, I'm sorry, Lily. I am herebecause I feel obligated." He brought her hand to his chest, pressing herpalm flat against his rapidly thumping pulse. "I'm obligated by my heart. It'sdecided you're essential to my existence, you see. And it's threatening to go out on labor strike if I don't make you mine this very day. So yes. I am here on bended knee, acting from a deep, undeniable sense of obligation. I am, quite simply, yours." He swallowed hard. "If you'll have me.
— Tessa Dare, Three Nights with a Scoundrel
Innocence invites protection, yet we might be smarter to protect ourselves against it...
— Megan Johns, The Path of Innocence
We can do anything you like. Just be with me.
— Christine Feehan, Magic in the Wind
I’ve never heard of a man being so eager to confess to the parent of a girl he’s just ruined
— Lisa Kleypas, Secrets of a Summer Night
When you sit that way, you look kind of like a beach ball with a head,” he continued. “Your haircut is really, really bad, I’m probably going to lose my job for helping you this way, and I’m dying to fuck you.” He glanced at her. “That honest enough for you?
— Suzanne Brockmann, Bodyguard
There is something about me, doll face. It’s between my legs, and I do believe a few minutes ago you were praying to it.
— Debra Anastasia, Crushed Seraphim
I won't be affected by your charm nor I will trap you into marriage. I've been there once, never again.- Kristine
— Martha Cecilia, Kristine Series 11: Wild Rose
It frightens me that I can't do anything sensible about it.""Are you scared that you'll wind up with a boring job where you have to see the same people every day and drink instant coffee?""I'm more scared that I'll forget the feeling I have now.""Kind of like how you forgot how it feels to be three years old.""That surely I'll wind up thinking I was so young, I didn't really understand everything. It bothers me that I know I will be wrong.
— Gunnar Ardelius, I Need You More Than I Love You and I Love You to Bits
His hands may have been the one to heal you, but it will be mine that awaken you.
— Charlotte Featherstone, Sinful
Sorry,ʺ she said, her face shining with joy when she saw me. ʺShould have put a sock on the door. Didnʹt realize things were getting hot and heavy.ʺʺNo avoiding it,ʺ I said lightly, clasping Dimitriʹs hand. ʺThings are always hot with him around.ʺDimitri looked scandalized. Heʹd never held back when we were in bed together, but his private nature wouldnʹt let him even hint about such matters to others. It was mean, but I laughed and kissed his cheek.ʺOh, this is going to be fun,ʺ I said. ʺNow that everythingʹs out in the open.ʺʺYeah,ʺ he said. ʺI got a pretty ‘funʹ look from your father the other day.
— Richelle Mead
Foolishly romantic, yeah, sure, maybe: but she'd rather have dreams of Prince Charming than the reality of Mr. Wrong.
— Lisa Cach, Wake Unto Me
The guy in bed with her was not Nathan. Which meant Elle was buck-naked and wantonly riding the wrong guy.
— Katee Robert, Wrong Bed, Right Guy
Sam…”“What?” she whispered.“Tell me what to do to fix it.”She shook her head and closed her eyes as though she couldn’t bear to see him. “You can’t fix it.”He had to. Failure here was not an option. “Let me try.
— Kaylea Cross, No Turning Back
I'm ending this.''No. Come on. It's not worth it.''You are,' he said fiercely, looking at her.'You're worth it.
— Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park
She could not leave him hanging like this. “If you were hurt, I need to know.” It was a rule somewhere, in the good-guy handbook.
— Tara Janzen, Crazy Wild
If you neglected to warn Djetth beforehand that you were going to shoot him down, Your Highness, he may consider you in breach of contract...
— Rowena Cherry, Insufficient Mating Material
Never sleep with a lady only once, especially in the case of an older lady.-'Rhett 
— Rowena Cherry, Knight's Fork
Rough palms cradled my face while my fingers gripped the pillow on either side of his. Lips, teeth, tongue, mingled together. I ate him up and didn’t let go until I had to come up for air.
— Priya Ardis
Ah, well.” He smiled-another one of those devastatingly intoxicating smiles that did unreasonable things to her body temperature and respiration.With a nod and a respectful, “Ma’am,” he left her in the middle of the room.Feeling like she’d been hit by a tank.
— Cindy Gerard, To the Brink
Just because lips have met doesn't mean hearts have joined. And just because two bodies are drawn to each other doesn't mean two people are right for each other. A physical relationship does not equal love.
— Joshua Harris, I Kissed Dating Goodbye Study Guide
You'll want all your strength for the wedding night." I cannot think why I should need strength," she said, ignoring a host of spine-tingling images rising in her mind's eye. "All I have to do is lie there." "Naked," he said grimly. "Truly?" She shot him a glance from under her lashes. "Well, if I must, I must, for you have the advantage of experience in these matters. Still, I do wish you'd told me sooner. I should not have put the modiste to so much trouble about the negligee." "The what?" "It was ghastly expensive," she said, "but the silk is as fine as gossamer, and the eyelet work about the neckline is exquisite. Aunt Louisa was horrified. She said only Cyprians wear such things, and it leaves nothing to the imagination." Jessica heard him suck in his breath, felt the muscular thigh tense against hers. "But if it were left to Aunt Louisa," she went on,"I should be covered from my chin to my toes in thick cotton ruffled with monstrosities with little bows and rosebuds. Which is absurd, when an evening gown reveals far more, not to mention--" "What color?" he asked. His low voice had roughened. "Wine red," she said, "With narrow black ribbons threaded through the neckline. Here." She traced a plunging U over her bosom. "And there's the loveliest openwork over my...well, here." She drew her finger over the curve of her breast a bare inch above the nipple. "And openwork on the right side of the skirt. From here" --she pointed to her hip--"down to the hem. And I bought---" "Jess." Her name was a strangled whisper. "--slippers to match," she continued." Black mules with--" "Jess." In one furious flurry of motion he threw down the reins and hauled her into his lap.
— Loretta Chase, Lord of Scoundrels
People loved you in the way they knew how - and often it was not the way you knew. Or needed.
— Josh Lanyon, The Dark Tide
What if I shave?" he said. "I look much better when I'm shaved. My cousin will vouch for that—do I not look almost handsome when I shave, Edward? " He didn't wait for the duke's reply but turned earnestly back to Prudence. "Do you think you could marry me if I shaved?
— Anne Gracie, The Perfect Rake
We've been wed more than a month. Since it appears you mean to stay, I might as well give you leave to call me by my christian name. It is preferable, at any rate, to 'clodpole.
— Loretta Chase, Lord of Scoundrels
He was too gorgeous for words and worst yet he knew it.
— Shannon Dermott, Beg for Mercy
This principle - that your spouse should be capable of becoming your best friend - is a game changer when you address the question of compatibility in a prospective spouse. If you think of marriage largely in terms of erotic love, then compatibility means sexual chemistry and appeal. If you think of marriage largely as a way to move into the kind of social status in life you desire, then compatibility means being part of the desired social class, and perhaps common tastes and aspirations for lifestyle. The problem with these factors is that they are not durable. Physical attractiveness will wane, no matter how hard you work to delay its departure. And socio-economic status unfortunately can change almost overnight. When people think they have found compatibility based on these things, they often make the painful discovery that they have built their relationship on unstable ground. A woman 'lets herself go' or a man loses his job, and the compatibility foundation falls apart.
— Timothy J. Keller, The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God
This has to be the most self-centered thing I've ever said, but no, I think you just wanted to vex me.
— Julia Quinn, The Viscount Who Loved Me
If you try to find a replacement, you'll be sadly disappointed, I can't be replaced. I'm the only man in all the world who possesses the right combination of qualities for you.You can turn your Ballister stare upon me all you like, but you can't petrify me. You can knock me about to your heart's content without worrying about doing any damage. You can perpetrate any sort of outrage your wicked mind conceives and be sure I'll join in, with a will. You're a troublemaker, Lydia. A Ballister devil. Nothing less than a Mallory hellion would ever suit you."- Vere Mallory -
— Loretta Chase, The Last Hellion
Would you like to hear more romance of the evening? He told me that the Guard should be reduced by half, and I threw an ink jar at his head.""Is that when he cried?""He ducked," Attolia said dryly.Grown more confident of the queen's humor, Relius said, "I had not pictured you for a fishwife.""Lo, the transforming power of love.
— Megan Whalen Turner, The King of Attolia
I could have screamed, but I didn't. I could have fought, but I didn't. I just lay there and let it happen, wathcing the winter-white sky go gray above me. One wolf prodded his nose into my hand and agianst my cheek, casting a shadow along my face. His yellow eyes looked into mine as the other wolves moved me this way and that. I held onto those eyes for as long as I could. Yellow. And, up close, flecked brillantly with every shade of gold and hazel. I didn't want him to look away, and he didn't. I wanted to reach out and grab a hold of his ruff, but my hands stayed curled to my chest, my arms frozen to my body. I couldn't remember what it felt like to be warm. Then he was gone, without him, the other wolves closed in, too close, sufficating. Something seemed too flutter in my chest. There was no sun; there was no light. I was dying. I couldn't remember what the sky looked like. But I didn't die, I was lost in a sea of cold, and then I was reborn into a sea of warmth. I remember this: his yellow eyes. I thought I would never see them again.
— Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver
V had a passing thought that she used the word "anyway" like an eraser on a crowded chalkboard. She said it whenever she needed to clear off the things she'd just shared to make room for more.
— J.R. Ward, Lover Unbound
He grinned, and right then it occurred to him that he hadn't enjoyed himself so much with a woman in a very long time. If Annabelle Granger were a few inches taller, a hell of a lot more sophisticated, better organized, less bossy, and more inclined to worship at his feet, she'd have made a perfect wife.
— Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Match Me If You Can
She has to agree to have me. It could take some time, but I’m confident I can trick her into it.
— Robyn Carr, Promise Canyon
He gripped her nape. "I fuckin' love you, Regin!" Rain spiked his lashes as he gazed down at her, commanding her, "Love Me Back
— Gena Showalter
Oh, Cameron," Eldon replied in a whisper, moving closer and brushing his lips over Cameron's mouth. "You are literally the very reason my heart beats. Nothing I have lost can compare with the love in you I have found.
— Zathyn Priest, Liquid Glass
As a rule of thumb, I'd say one cliché per [Romance]--and then be damn sure you can make it work. But if you're going to try to write the virginal amnesiac twin disguised as a boy mistaken for the mother (or father depending how well the disguise works) of a secret baby, honey, you better have some serious skills. Or seek therapy.
— Nora Roberts
I’m going to carry you now,” he told her, “so we can move even faster. I’m not asking you, I’m telling you. Any response from you is unnecessary and unwelcome.
— Suzanne Brockmann, Out of Control
Excuse me?" I said, palms down on the Formica tabletop. "Coffee? I thought we came here for pie." "I don't eat the kind of pie they serve here." I felt a flash of heat go through my stomach. I knew firsthand the kind of pie Ranger liked.
— Janet Evanovich, To the Nines
I want you," she said."I told you so," he said.
— Loretta Chase, Lord Perfect
Madelyne, we're married now. 'Tis a usual occurrence to bed one's wife on the wedding night.
— Julie Garwood, Honor's Splendour
I hope I haven't given you the impression that I consider kissing intrinsically irrational.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gatsby Girls
He loved her.He wanted her.He needed her.And he needed her now.
— Julia Quinn, Just Like Heaven
I want him to burn for me, to not be able to go a day without touching me, holding me, caressing me. He’ll be an excellent lover. I want a man who knows how to please me,
— Maya Banks, The Tycoon's Rebel Bride
You will like her," he persisted. "Egad, she's after your own heart, maman! She shot me in the arm.""Voyons, do you think that is what I like?
— Georgette Heyer, Devil's Cub
If she were here I wouldn't be able to keep my hands off her. I would hold her so close she'd beg me to let her breathe. I'd kiss her so hard she'd plead for mercy. I'd unfasten her clothing and lie with her on that hard bed, and what was between us would be as far above the ordinary congress between man and woman as the stars are above their pale reflections in the lake below.
— Juliet Marillier, Heir to Sevenwaters
It's your heart. No one else gets a say in that.
— Jay Asher, What Light
The moment I saw her, a part of me walked out of my body and wrapped itself around her. And there it still remains.
— Arundhati Roy, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
An emotion clamped down on her heart. It squeezed her into a terrible silence. But he said nothing after that, only her name, as if her name were not a name but a question. Or perhaps that it wasn’t how he had said it, and she was wrong, and she’d heard a question simply because the sound of him speaking her name made her wish that she were his answer.
— Marie Rutkoski, The Winner's Crime
A letter is a soul, so faithful an echo of the speaking voice that to the sensitive it is among the richest treasures of love.
— Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot
Sorry,” he said. “Let me drop the belt-"“No.” She held on when he would have pulled away. “Don’t. I like it.” Again, he lifted her face, and he smiled. “The tool belt turns you on.” “No.” She closed her eyes and thunked her forehead to his chest. “Little bit.
— Jill Shalvis, Simply Irresistible
Marry me he said voice full of emotion. Be my soul mate my friend and my lover as long as we both live. Make babies with me that have curly hair and big brown eyes. Grow old with me and we'll watch the sun set together in the evenings. And when I leave this world I'll be happy knowing I was the best man I could be for having loved you.
— Jo Davis, Line of Fire
If a castle gets destroyed, you just build a new one. If you wanted me to I'd build them over and over. Let's build them together.
— Fuyumi Soryo, Mars, Volume 08
Aku nggak membencimu. Aku hanya benci karena ternyata begitu sulit melupakanmu.
— Christian Simamora, All You Can Eat
I don't know what the future holds. I only know that I want to be with you. You and me. Everything else is negotiable.
— Joan Kilby, Two Against the Odds
Love me?” Madeline asked with a faint smile. “It used to be love.” He brushed his lips over her closed eyelids. “Now there's no word for it.” “You once told me that you thought love was a weakness.” “I was wrong,” he whispered, kissing the corners of her mouth. “I've discovered it's my only strength.
— Lisa Kleypas, Because You're Mine
It is. I’m your boyfriend now, whichmeans there’s no room for your hipster admirer. He’ll just have to lick his wounds while we lick other things.
— Kylie Scott, Play
I knew right then you were the only one for me." He pulled her handfrom his face, kissed her palm, then pressed it flat against his chest. "Beatings, battles, fights. No matter how bleak the circumstance, no matter how my soul despaired ... this heart never once gave up." His voice deepened, went thick with emotion. "I've a theory as to why. Do you want to hear it?"She nodded."This heart is yours. It's yours," he said. "It always will be.
— Tessa Dare, Twice Tempted by a Rogue
Hardin is like a drug; each time I take the tiniest bit of him, I crave more and more. He consumes my thoughts and invades my dreams.
— Anna Todd, After
Your memory feels like home to me.So whenever my mind wanders, it always finds it’s way back to you.
— Ranata Suzuki
That is what I like about you, Mr. Dashwood," she said. "You are so decisive. It saves me the bother of thinking for myself.""That is what I like about you, Mrs. Dashwood," he said. "You are so sarcastic. It saves me the trouble of trying to be tactful and charming.
— Loretta Chase, Lord Perfect
This is not something anyone can teach you. Heartbreak you must learn on your own.
— Chelsey Philpot, Even in Paradise
I stepped closer still. He closed his eyes again and covered my hand with his own. 'You smell of violets. You always smell of violets,' he said. 'You've no idea how many times I have walked these moors and smelled them and thought you were near. On and on I walked, following the scent of you, and you were never there. When I saw you in the hall tonight, I thought I had finally gone mad.
— Deanna Raybourn, Silent on the Moor
I am a wild woman. it would take a warrior to tame my spirit.
— Nikki Rowe
I love you, and it's not the kind of love that wavers. It's the scary kind that doesn't fade. I look at you, and I see not just everything I want for my life, but everything I am, because you took the emptiest, dark pits of my soul and filled them with you. You are as much part of me as my own heart, and it doesn't beat without you.
— Rebecca Yarros, Eyes Turned Skyward
I thought I was going to die. I wanted to die. And I thought if I was going to die I would die with you.Someone like you, young as I am, I saw so many dying near me in the last year. I didn’t feel scared. Icertainly wasn’t brave just now. I thought to myself, We have this villa this grass, we should have laindown together, you in my arms, before we died. I wanted to touch that bone at your neck, collarbone,it’s like a small hard wing under your skin. I wanted to place my fingers against it. I’ve always liked fleshthe colour of rivers and rocks or like the brown eye of a Susan, do you know what that flower is? Haveyou seen them? I am so tired, Kip, I want to sleep. I want to sleep under this tree, put my eye againstyour collarbone I just want to close my eyes without thinking of others, want to find the crook of a treeand climb into it and sleep. What a careful mind! To know which wire to cut. How did you know? Youkept saying I don’t know I don’t know, but you did. Right? Don’t shake, you have to be a still bed forme, let me curl up as if you were a good grandfather I could hug, I love the word ‘curl,’ such a slowword, you can’t rush it...
— Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient
The seeking of a mate shall be undertaken with due preparation and care. A life-bond should never be contemplated as a light thing--unlike a legal union or sanctified joining, the sealing of souls CANNOT be severed. When a mate is SOULBOUND to another--LIFEMATED, as some have come to regard it--a mystery is engaged. In one aspect mystical, the lifemating process is the most sublime endeavor that a Refarian may assume. Once formed, the bond must be ever cherished and nurtured by the process of lifelong rigor.
— Deidre Knight, Parallel Attraction
When you are in love- everything is romantic
— Jude Morgan, Indiscretion
Tell me,' I said. 'Tell me when you notice me.'I notice you going into church,' Joshua said. 'I notice your hair, how blond it is. But how in some light it looks like it has red in it. I notice the way you smell when we're close. And the way you walk when we're headed home from church and your family gets out of the Temple first. I notice how you are with your family and how you hold your little sisters. I've seen you stand out on your doorstep and look across the desert. I've watched you walk toward the Compound fence and then on past that. You've been walking for years.
— Carol Lynch Williams
These times of woe afford no time to woo.
— William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
I had this daft idea to come and bury the past. Except the past is not quite dead.
— Sherry Thomas, Not Quite a Husband
The funny thing about destiny is that you can't predict it, and you can't prevent it.- Leslie
— Kathy Love, Getting What You Want
Snowball?"It's white."Meow."It's so girly."This from a guy who named his poodle Princess."his laughter died. "How do you know about Princess?"Your sister told me.
— Rachel Gibson, Tangled Up In You
Why is it women have to bring all this angst into sex? We should be more like men. In. Out. Over. Next.
— Lara Rios, Becoming Latina in 10 Easy Steps
Your neck. I want to kiss it.
— Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac
I wouldn't yell 'fire' at that slimeball if his ass was in flames.
— Victoria Dahl, Talk Me Down
No more sex."I blink several times at Anna as we stand outside the car the next morning. Have we been married long enough for her to say that?
— Wendy Higgins, Sweet Temptation
They say money talks, but all mine ever says is 'good-bye sucker.
— Jill Shalvis, Head Over Heels
The common prejudice that love is as common as "romance" may be due to the fact that we all learned about it first through poetry. But the poets fool us; they are the only ones to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one.
— Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition
I know you. Inside and out, Sara. I know you, and I’ve accepted it all. Every bit of the crazy. And I love you anyway remember?
— Emme Rollins, Dear Rockstar
I always watch you. You consume my every thought.
— M.A. Stacie, Unwritten Rules
I live for sex. I celebrate it, and relish the electricity of it, with every fibre of my being. I can see no better reason for being alive.
— Fiona Thrust, Naked and Sexual
Sophie, honey, stop looking at me like that,” Garrett said gruffly. “You’ll have me convinced I’m going to die.”“You’re not?
— Maya Banks, No Place to Run
We straighten , bu our snickering is barely contained as we attempt to focus our attention on a picture of a discarded Coke can. "This guy's lady love is kind of a slob, don't you think?" he whispers.I cover my mouth with my hands again."A reaaaaaaaal litterbug.""Stop it," I hiss. My eyes are watering. "Ohmygod look at this one! How did he get her toenail clippings?""If you were my girl," he whispers, "I'd take creepy pictures of your trash when I knew you weren't looking.""If you were my girl," I whisper back," I"d put the creepy pictures in a foreign museum so you wouldn't know that I take creepy pictures.
— Stephanie Perkins, Isla and the Happily Ever After
Good God, you don’t give up.”“Nope.”I laughed, couldn’t help it, and hissmile spread in response to the sound.“I’m sure there are plenty of girls whowant to go out on a date with you.”“There are.”“Wow. Modest aren’t you?”“Why should I be?” he shot back.“And I want to go out on a date with you.Not them.
— J. Lynn, Wait for You
If I let you go are you going to hit me again?”“What do you think?”“Then I’m not going to let you go.
— Sarah Mayberry, Her Best Friend
Everybody's heart is like a cup. They stumble from place to place and person to person, trying to get them filled. They get cracked, those cups, and even broken. Some people throw them away, thinking that it will stop the pain. Poor fools. Nobody can fill a cup but Almighty God Himself. Nobody.
— Linda Lael Miller, McKettrick's Pride
It’s not so much where I want you,Sophie, as it is how. Nothing tastes quite like a woman, and no woman tastes like you. - Marc Hunter
— Pamela Clare, Unlawful Contact
Who’s there?”“The scratcher of your itch,” he said.She opened the door a crack and stuck her nose out. “Was that supposed to be romantic?
— Jill Shalvis, Instant Attraction
So it’s fate then?” I asked with him so close my lips brushed the line of his jaw with each word, “Us being together?”“Absolutely,” Calvin said with a low growl. Then he lifted my chin, tilting my head back, and kissed me deeply.Who was I to argue with Fate?
— E.J. Stevens
He swallowed and shifted his weight a little uneasily, and then said, very quietly, his lips almost touching hers, 'Promise me you'll marry me. Not now. Someday. Because I need to know."Claier felt a flutter inside, like a bird trying to fly, and a ruch of heat that made her dizzy. And something else, something fragile as a soap bubble, and just as beautiful. Joy, in the middle of all this horror and heartbreak. 'Yes,' she whispered back. 'I promise.'And she kissed him, and kissed him, and kissed him, while the sun came up and bathed Morganville in one last, shining day.
— Rachel Caine, Last Breath
Home was his favorite place too. But home for him was anywhere Jane happened to be. Never in his life had he loved someone as much as he loved her. So much that it scared him sometimes. He pulled her against him and looked out over the city. He was in love with his wife. Yeah, he knew what that said about him. That he was a goner. Leg-shackled for life. Whipped by a short woman with a big attitude. Yep, that's what it said about him, and he didn't care.
— Rachel Gibson, See Jane Score
Nothing is forever. Except atoms.
— Dannika Dark, Gravity
He was sound asleep, his long legs stretched out in front of him, the blessed fire blazing, an empty bottle of wine by his side. He hadn't been shaved recently, and he looked rumpled, dissolute and beautiful. Likea fallen angel. She moved to stand in front of him and pointed the pistol directly at his heart."I wouldn't do that if I were you," he murmured, and then he opened his extraordinary eyes. "It's alwaysunwise to shoot the man you're in love with.
— Anne Stuart, The Devil's Waltz
Her hand holding his for a dozen paces. His, resting on the small of her back for a moment. Touches that had no real purpose but to say I’m here and We are together still.
— Veronica Rossi, Under the Never Sky
He hugged her hard. "I love you. My life is so much better with you in it than out of it.
— Cindy Gerard, To the Brink
Lori sat way back in her chair and gave him the once-over. "What in the world's gotten into Ben Lawson? jokes? Flirting? Maybe I should sleep with Molly. I think she's got a magic hooha.
— Victoria Dahl, Talk Me Down
I'm ready for something private, private and real
— Simone Elkeles, Perfect Chemistry
Before I met you, my life ran on sheer amusement. After I met you, my life ran on sheer compassion.
— Heenashree Khandelwal, Soulmates, By Chance
Okay,” he said, his breath hitching, his hands shaking like hell as he pried her arms from around his neck and set her away., Darcy, I want you so bad I'm afraid I'm going to hurt you.
— Cindy Gerard, To the Brink