Virginia Woolf

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.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Virginia Woolf

John Eldredge

She is the crescendo, the final, astonishing work of God. Woman. In one last flourish creation comes to a finish with Eve. She is the Master's finishing touch.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by John Eldredge

Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

What about when someone doesn't need a shoulder? What if they need the arms?

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Margaret Atwood

Romance takes place in the middle distance. Romance is looking in at yourself through a window clouded with dew. Romance means leaving things out: where life grunts and shuffles, romance only sighs.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Margaret Atwood

Tessa Dare, One Dance with a Duke

Oh, dear." She let her head fall back to the pillow. "There it went. I've fallen in love with you now."
"Just now?" Chuckling, he came to a sitting position, resting his forearm on one bent knee. "Well, thank God for belated blessings." He ran a hand
through his hair. "It's been coming on rather longer than that for me."
"What?" She sat bolt upright. "What can you mean? Since when?"
"From the first, Amelia. From the very first.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Tessa Dare, One Dance with a Duke

Jennifer L. Armentrout, Pure

Ever since I’ve met you, I’ve wanted to break every rule.” Aiden turned away, the muscles in his neck tensing. He sighed. “You’ll become the centre of someone’s world one day. And he’ll be the luckiest son of a bitch on this earth.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Jennifer L. Armentrout, Pure

Bruce Springsteen

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.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Bruce Springsteen

Gillian Shields, Immortal

She is by my side, as my sister, but he is my soul.
He is my enemy, my tormentor, my demon.
He is my beloved.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Gillian Shields, Immortal

Zoe Archer, Warrior

Now that I've found you, it scares me witless to think of anything happening. To you. I'm not used to being... afraid." A sudden realization came to her, "So this is love," she said quietly. "The daily prospect of joy or disaster

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Zoe Archer, Warrior

Diamond Drake, Imagined Love

You teach people how to treat you by what you accept.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Diamond Drake, Imagined Love

Cindy Gerard, To the Brink

I generally find subtlety a waste of time.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Cindy Gerard, To the Brink