Greg Behrendt, He's Just Not That Into You

Let’s start with this statistic: You are delicious. Be brave, my sweet. I know you can get lonely. I know you can crave companionship and sex and love so badly that it physically hurts. But I truly believe that the only way you can find out that there’s something better out there is to first believe there’s something better out there. What other choice is there?

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Greg Behrendt, He's Just Not That Into You

Samantha Young, On Dublin Street

Let me rephrase.” He took a seething step toward me. “When it comes to you… I don’t like to share.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Samantha Young, On Dublin Street

Santosh Kalwar

Everything changes except the love.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Santosh Kalwar

J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

It is impossible to manufacture or imitate love.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Ilana Tan, Winter in Tokyo

Kenapa harus takut gelap kalau ada banyak hal indah yang hanya bisa dilihat sewaktu gelap?
-Nishimura Kazuto

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Ilana Tan, Winter in Tokyo

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

Colleen Houck

You think I wanted to fall for you? I stayed away from you! I gave him the chance to be with you! But there’s another part of me that asks what if? What if you’re not supposed to be with Ren? What if you were supposed to be the answer to my prayers? Not his!

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Colleen Houck

Alice Hoffman, Local Girls

...he had a way of taking your hand which made it clear he'd have to be the one to let go."

From Alice Hoffman's "Local Girls", pg.102.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Alice Hoffman, Local Girls

Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

I wonder how many people don't get the one they want, but end up with the one they're supposed to be with.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

Graham Greene, The Comedians

Like some wines our love could neither mature nor travel.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Graham Greene, The Comedians

Lisa Kleypas, Where Dreams Begin

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.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Lisa Kleypas, Where Dreams Begin

Nicholas Sparks

You really love her don't you," she said.
With all my heart."
She looked as sad as I'd ever seen her.
What's your heart telling you to do?"
I don't know."
Maybe", she said gently,"You're trying to hard to hear it.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Nicholas Sparks

Truman Capote, Summer Crossing

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.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Truman Capote, Summer Crossing

Colleen Houck

You were on the other side of the world, but I often woke with the scent of you surrounding me. I ached for you, Kells. No matter how much Kishan thrashed me, it couldn’t diminish the pain of losing you. I’d dream of you and reach out to touch you, but you were always just out of reach.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Colleen Houck

Shannon Hale, Enna Burning

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.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Shannon Hale, Enna Burning

Stephanie Laurens, The Edge of Desire

My heart only ever had one thought, one want. One need. Despite all, in spite of all...All my heart has ever wanted is you.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Stephanie Laurens, The Edge of Desire

Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver

I smiled sweetly at his embarressment, beginning to walk again, kicking up golden leaves. I heard him scuffling leaves behind me. "And what was the point of this again?"

Forget it!" Sam said. "Do you you like this place or not?"

I stoped in my tracks, spinning to face him. "Hey." I pointed at him; he raised his eyebrows and stopped in his tracks. "You didn't think Jack would be here at all, did you?"

His thick black eyebrows went up even farther.

Did you evan intend to look for him at all?"

He held his hands up as if a surrender. "What do you want me to say?"

You were trying to see if I would reconize it, wern't you?" I took anouther step, colsing the distance between us. I could feel the heat of his body, even without touching him, in the increasing cold of the day. "YOU told me about this wood somehow. How did you show it to me?"

I keep trying to tell you. You wont listen. Because you're stubbon. It's how we speek- it's the only words we have. Just pictures. Just simple little picters. You HAVE changed Grace. Just not your skin. I want you to believe me." His hands were still raise, but he was starting to grin at me in the failing light.

So you brought me here to see this." I stepped forward again, and he stepped back.

Do you like it?"

Under false pretence." Anouther step forward; anouther back. The grine widened

So do you like it?"

When you knew we wouldn't come across anybody else."

His teeth flashed in his grin. "Do you like it?"

I punched my hands into his chest. "You know I love it. You knew I would." I went to punch him, and he grabed my wrists. For a moment we stood there like that, him looking down at me with a grin half-caught on his face, and me lookingup at him: Still Life with Boy and Girl. It would've been the perfect moment to kiss me, but he didn't. He just looked at me and looked at me, and by the time I relizeed I could just as easily kiss him, I noticed that his grin was slipping away.

Sam slowly lowered my wrists and relesed them. "I'm glad." he said very quietly.

My arms still hung by my sides, right where Sam had put them. I frowned at him. "You were supposed to kiss me."

I thought about it."

I just kept looking at the soft, sad shape of his lips, looking just like his voice sounded. I was probably staring, but I couldn't stop thinking about how much I wanted him to kiss me and how stupide it was to want it so badly. "Why don't you?"

He leaned over and gave mr the lightest of kisses. His lips, cool and dry, ever so polite and incredibly maddening. "I have to get inside soon," he whispered "It's getting cold

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

She certainly did not hate him. No; hatred had vanished long ago, and she had almost as long been ashamed of ever feeling a dislike against him, that could be so called. The respect created by the conviction of his valuable qualities, though at first unwillingly admitted, had for some time ceased to be repugnant to her feelings; and it was now heightened into somewhat of a friendlier nature, by the testimony so highly in his favour, and bringing forward his disposition in so amiable a light, which yesterday had produced. But above all, above respect and esteem, there was a motive within her of good will which could not be overlooked. It was gratitude.--Gratitude not merely for having once loved her, but for loving her still well enough, to forgive all the petulance and acrimony of her manner in rejecting him, and all the unjust accusations accompanying her rejection. He who, she had been persuaded, would avoid her as his greatest enemy, seemed, on this accidental meeting, most eager to preserve the acquaintance, and without any indelicate display of regard, or any peculiarity of manner, where their two selves only were concerned, was soliciting the good opinion of her friends, and bent on making her known to his sister. Such a change in a man of so much pride, excited not only astonishment but gratitude--for to love, ardent love, it must be attributed; and as such its impression on her was of a sort to be encouraged, as by no means unpleasing, though it could not exactly be defined.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

Chloe Neill, Twice Bitten

Some minutes or hours or days later, when I lay boneless and well satisfied, Ethan raised his gaze to mine again. His eyes were silver, his fangs descended. "There is no going back," he said, "Not after this.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Chloe Neill, Twice Bitten

Richelle Mead, Succubus Blues

Vampires. Honestly, they're like children sometimes.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Richelle Mead, Succubus Blues

Susane Colasanti, When It Happens

We’re never gonna understand women. They’re way too complex. You’ve got too many variables to consider. PMS, bad hair days, miscellaneous mood swings . . . there’s no way to tell what’s causing their attitude.
- Mike

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Susane Colasanti, When It Happens

Gena Showalter, The Darkest Night

While Maddox now believed the demon did not want to hurt Ashlyn, he wasn't willing to take a chance. He would talk about flowers and moonbeams - he cringed - if it meant maintaining this delectable inner peace.
"Is there a way to break your death-curse?" Ashlyn asked. So much for flowers and moon-beams.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Gena Showalter, The Darkest Night

Cynthia Hand, Hallowed

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.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Cynthia Hand, Hallowed

Coheed and Cambria

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.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Coheed and Cambria

Anaïs Nin, Delta of Venus

He was now in that state of fire that she loved. She wanted to be burnt.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Anaïs Nin, Delta of Venus

Becca Fitzpatrick, Hush, Hush

Say 'provoking' again. Your mouth looks provocative when you do.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Becca Fitzpatrick, Hush, Hush

Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

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...

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

Rachel Gibson, Tangled Up In You

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.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Rachel Gibson, Tangled Up In You

David Nicholls, One Day

No, this, she felt, was real life and if she wasn’t as curious or passionate as she had once been, that was only to be expected. It would be inappropriate, undignified, at thirty-eight, to conduct friendships or love affairs with the ardour and intensity of a twenty-two-year-old. Falling in love like that? Writing poetry, crying at pop songs? Dragging people into photo-booths, taking a whole day to make a compilation tape, asking people if they wanted to share your bed, just for company? If you quoted Bob Dylan or T.S. Eliot or, God forbid, Brecht at someone these days they would smile politely and step quietly backwards, and who would blame them? Ridiculous, at thirty-eight, to expect a song or book or film to change your life. No, everything had evened out and settled down and life was lived against a general background hum of comfort, satisfaction and familiarity. There would be no more of these nerve-jangling highs and lows. The friends they had now would be the friends they had in five, ten, twenty years’ time. They expected to get neither dramatically richer or poorer; they expected to stay healthy for a little while yet. Caught in the middle; middle class, middle-aged; happy in that they were not overly happy.
Finally, she loved someone and felt fairly confident that she was loved in return. If someone asked Emma, as they sometimes did at parties, how she and her husband had met, she told them:
‘We grew up together.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by David Nicholls, One Day

Melina Marchetta, On the Jellicoe Road

I didn't know you had a girlfriend, Griggs." Anson Choi feigns surprise. "What's her name?"
"I didn't actually catch her name," Griggs continues.
"Lily," Raffaela says over her shoulder and this time I give her a sideways look.
"Great to know that I'm in love with a girl with a cool name."
"It's Taylor's middle name," Raffaela calls back again.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Melina Marchetta, On the Jellicoe Road

Stephenie Meyer, New Moon

I honestly have no idea how to live without you.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Stephenie Meyer, New Moon

Cassandra Clare, City of Fallen Angels

His fingers skimmed down her body, over skin and satin, and she shivered, leaning into him, and she was sure they both tasted like blood and ashes and salt, but it didn't matter; the world, the city, and all it's lights and life seemed to have narrowed down to this, just her and Jace, the burning heart of a frozen world.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Cassandra Clare, City of Fallen Angels

P.C. Cast

This time the fluttery feeling in my stomach was more intense. It made the inside of my thighs tingle and my breathing deepen.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by P.C. Cast

Rachel Caine, Glass Houses

Run first,' Shane said. 'Mourn later.'
It was the perfect motto for Morganville.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Rachel Caine, Glass Houses

Lisa Kleypas, Secrets of a Summer Night

Where are we going?” Annabelle asked, resisting his hold on her wrist.
“To the house. If they’re not willing to be witnesses, then it seems I’ll have to debauch you in front of someone else.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Lisa Kleypas, Secrets of a Summer Night

Steven Spielberg, Close Encounters of the Third Kind

She wanted to go over and hug his tears away, but she was too frightened.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Steven Spielberg, Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Richelle Mead, Succubus Blues

Sometimes you wake up from a dream. Sometimes you wake up in a dream. And sometimes, every once in a while, you wake up in someone else's dream.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Richelle Mead, Succubus Blues

Jess C. Scott, EyeLeash: A Blog Novel

[novan]: bassists are very good with their fingers
[novan]: and some of us sing backup vocals, so that means we're good with our mouths too...

(~ IM chat with Novan Chang, 18, bassist)

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Jess C. Scott, EyeLeash: A Blog Novel

Colleen Houck

I’ve been working hard to become the kind of man she needs, the kind of man she already believes me to be.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Colleen Houck

Courtney Milan, Unveiled

Maybe that’s what I have been looking for. When storms and rockslides threaten, I am looking for someone who will hold on to me and not let go.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Courtney Milan, Unveiled

Dorothy Parker

I require three things in a man: he must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Dorothy Parker

Colleen Houck, Tiger's Curse

A quiet but indomitable voice behind me said, “I believe this is my dance.” It was him. I could feel his presence. The warmth of him seeped into my back, and I quivered all over like spring leaves in a warm breeze.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Colleen Houck, Tiger's Curse

Jay Asher

Justin, honey, you were my very first kiss. My very first hand to hold. But you were nothing more than an average guy. And I don't say that to be mean- I don't. There was just something about you that made me need to be your girlfriend to this day I don't know exactly what that was. But it was there.. and it was amazingly strong. -Thirteen Reasons Why

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Jay Asher

Kathleen Tessaro

If you can capture a woman's imagination, then you will have her. But imagination is a strange creature. It needs time and distance to function properly.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Kathleen Tessaro

Jennifer Crusie, Bet Me

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

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Jennifer Crusie, Bet Me

L.J. Smith, Dark Reunion

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.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by L.J. Smith, Dark Reunion

Cristina Marrero, The Unsung Love Story

You had to be willing to fight in order for a love story to last a life time.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Cristina Marrero, The Unsung Love Story

Sherry Thomas

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

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Sherry Thomas

Lisa Kleypas, Dreaming of You

I didn't want to give you the one last part of myself that I couldn't take back. And then you were gone... And I realized it was already yours. It had been since the beginning. Except that I hadn't told you. It drove me mad, the thought that you would never know.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Lisa Kleypas, Dreaming of You

Julie Kagawa, Winter's Passage

i'm your enemy, meghan. never forget that. if Mab tells me to kill you in front of the entire court, it's my duty to obey.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Julie Kagawa, Winter's Passage