Jess C. Scott, New Order

I suppose it’s not a social norm, and not a manly thing to do — to feel, discuss feelings. So that’s what I’m giving the finger to. Social norms and stuff…what good are social norms, really? I think all they do is project a limited and harmful image of people. It thus impedes a broader social acceptance of what someone, or a group of people, might actually be like.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Jess C. Scott, New Order

X. Williamson, Distract My Hunger

I could recognise his soul in mine as much as he could find me in his. Our sole existences seemed to have been for this very moment when nothing else mattered.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by X. Williamson, Distract My Hunger

Linda Howard, After the Night

Do you want to know why men name their penis? So the most important decisions in their life aren't made by a stranger.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Linda Howard, After the Night

Lara Rios, Becoming Latina in 10 Easy Steps

Why is it women have to bring all this angst into sex? We should be more like men. In. Out. Over. Next.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Lara Rios, Becoming Latina in 10 Easy Steps

Karen Chance, Embrace the Night

Not really hungry."
"She’ll eat." Pritkin said curtly.
"I said —"
"If you starve to death it would damage my professional reputation."
"I eat plenty."
"The same does not apply should I strangle you in understandable irritation, however."
"I’ll have a sandwich," I told Nick. "No meat.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Karen Chance, Embrace the Night

Laurell K. Hamilton, Burnt Offerings

I will bathe in your warmth ma petite. Roll you around me until my heart beats only for you. My breath will grow warm from your kiss.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Laurell K. Hamilton, Burnt Offerings

Kristan Higgins, My One and Only

I'll tell you something, Harpy," he said, his voice almost a whisper now. "It never even occurred to me that we wouldn't make it. And it never occurred to you that we would. You were just waiting for us to go down in flames. I thought we could get through anything.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Kristan Higgins, My One and Only

E.L. James, Fifty Shades of Grey

Don't get your panties in such a twist... and give me back mine.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by E.L. James, Fifty Shades of Grey

Cassandra Clare, City of Glass

There is no pretending," Jace said with absolute clarity. "I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there is life after that, I'll love you then.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Cassandra Clare, City of Glass

Jennifer Donnelly, A Northern Light

As I nodded and smiled and umm-hmm'd and oh, my'd my way down the drive, I wondered if boys had any sort of magazine that told them how to attract women and, if so, did it ever tell them to put the girls' interests first?

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Jennifer Donnelly, A Northern Light

William Shakespeare

My only love sprung from my only hate!
Too early seen unknown, and known too late!
Prodigious birth of love it is to me,
That I must love a loathed enemy.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by William Shakespeare

J.R. Ward, Lover Avenged

You know,” he said, “this is why I love you so much.”
Her tone was heartbreakingly warm. “What do you mean?”
You don’t ask me to go inside because it’s cold. You just want to make it easier for me to be where I want to stand.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by J.R. Ward, Lover Avenged

Shana Abe

I heard what you said. I’m not the silly romantic you think. I don’t want the heavens or the shooting stars. I don’t want gemstones or gold. I have those things already. I want…a steady hand. A kind soul. I want to fall asleep, and wake, knowing my heart is safe. I want to love, and be loved.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Shana Abe

L.J. Smith, The Passion

More than anything." Rob persisted. "You'd crawl on your belly over broken glass for her. Easy.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by L.J. Smith, The Passion

Loretta Chase, Lord of Scoundrels

You are well aware of your effect on women, and I'm sure it gratifies you no end to watch them sigh and salivate over your magnificent physique. I do not wish to spoil your fun, Dain, but I do ask you to consider my pride and refrain from embarrassing me in public."

Women...sighing and salivating...over his magnificent physique. Maybe the brutal bedding had destroyed a part of her brain.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Loretta Chase, Lord of Scoundrels

Elizabeth Scott, Something, Maybe

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.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Elizabeth Scott, Something, Maybe

Colleen Houck, Tiger's Curse

What is real and what is not is for your heart to decide and for your heart to know.

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

Nora Roberts, Sweet Revenge

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

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Nora Roberts, Sweet Revenge

Kristen Ashley, The Gamble

He put the knuckles of his fist to the table, leaned toward Niles and spoke quietly, cuttingly, in his rough, gravelly voice.

“Fucked her last night, man, and this morning. Five times. Five. It was like she hadn’t been touched in a decade. So fuckin’ sweet. Damn,” he taunted, his eyes locked on Niles. “You’ve had her, you gotta know, not enough money in the world’s worth that.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Kristen Ashley, The Gamble

Natalie Clifford Barney

When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Natalie Clifford Barney

Melissa Marr, Darkest Mercy

Will you be my forever, Donia?

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Melissa Marr, Darkest Mercy

Judith McNaught, Almost Heaven

If you would take one step forward, darling, you could cry in my arms. And while you do, I'll tell you how sorry I am for everything I've done -" Unable to wait, Ian caught her, pulling her tightly against him. "And when I'm finished," he whispered hoarsely as she wrapped her arms around him and wept brokenly, "you can help me find a way to forgive myself."
Tortured by her tears, he clasped her tighter and rubbed his jaw against her temple, his voice a ravaged whisper: "I'm sorry," he told her. He cupped her face between his palms, tipping it up and gazing into her eyes, his thumbs moving over her wet cheeks. "I'm sorry." Slowly, he bent his head, covering her mouth with his. "I'm so damned sorry.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Judith McNaught, Almost Heaven

Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

It slowly began to dawn on me that I had been staring at her for an impossible amount of time. Lost in my thoughts, lost in the sight of her. But her face didn't look offended or amused. It almost looked as if she were studying the lines of my face, almost as if she were waiting.
I wanted to take her hand. I wanted to brush her cheek with my fingertips. I wanted to tell her that she was the first beautiful thing that I had seen in three years. The sight of her yawning to the back of her hand was enough to drive the breath from me. How I sometimes lost the sense of her words in the sweet fluting of her voice. I wanted to say that if she were with me then somehow nothing could ever be wrong for me again.
In that breathless second I almost asked her. I felt the question boiling up from my chest. I remember drawing a breath then hesitating--what could I say? Come away with me? Stay with me? Come to the University? No. Sudden certainty tightened in my chest like a cold fist. What could I ask her? What could I offer? Nothing. Anything I said would sound foolish, a child's fantasy.
I closed my mouth and looked across the water. Inches away, Denna did the same. I could feel the heat of her. She smelled like road dust, and honey, and the smell the air holds seconds before a heavy summer rain.
Neither of us spoke. I closed my eyes. The closeness of her was the sweetest, sharpest thing I had ever known.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

David Sedaris, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim

Hugh and I have been together for so long that in order to arouse extraordinary passion, we need to engage in physical combat. Once, he hit me on the back of the head with a broken wineglass, and I fell to the floor pretending to be unconscious. That was romantic, or would have been had he rushed to my side rather than stepping over my body to fetch the dustpan.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by David Sedaris, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim

Colleen Houck, Tiger's Curse

He then put both hands on the door on either side of my head and leaned in close, pinning me against it. I trembled like a downy rabbit caught in the clutches of a wolf. The wolf came closer. He bent his head and began nuzzling my cheek. The problem was…I wanted the wolf to devour me.

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

Karen Kingsbury

Three years? That's a thousand tomorrows, ma'am.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Karen Kingsbury

Ann Aguirre, Grimspace

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.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Ann Aguirre, Grimspace

Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Natural Born Charmer

So, Beav, tell me about yourself."
"I'm Blue."
"Sweetheart, if I had your dubious taste in men, I wouldn't be too happy, either."
"My name is Blue. Blue Bailey.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Natural Born Charmer

Colleen Houck

I feel…and I have reason to believe…that we could come to mean something to each other.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Colleen Houck

Moira Rogers, A Safe Harbor

Alpha bitches are all the same underneath. Don't know how to give an inch even if their damn fool lives depend on it.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Moira Rogers, A Safe Harbor

Yolanda Joe

When a man finds the woman he really loves, the one he respects and wants to call wife, there is nothing on earth he won't do for her. No mountain he won't hike. No river he won't wade. No door he won't open. She is Eve and there's not a snake crawling that can keep them apart.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Yolanda Joe

Amy Sedaris, I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence

Don't leave a piece of jewelry at his house so you can go back and get it later; he may be with his real girlfriend.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Amy Sedaris, I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence

Pablo Neruda

With a chaste heart
With pure eyes I celebrate your beauty
Holding the leash of blood
So that it might leap out and trace your outline
Where you lie down in my Ode
As in a land of forests or in surf
In aromatic loam, or in sea music

Beautiful nude
Equally beautiful your feet
Arched by primeval tap of wind or sound
Your ears, small shells
Of the splendid American sea
Your breasts of level plentitude
Fulfilled by living light
Your flying eyelids of wheat
Revealing or enclosing
The two deep countries of your eyes

The line your shoulders have divided into pale regions
Loses itself and blends into the compact halves of an apple
Continues separating your beauty down into two columns of
Burnished gold
Fine alabaster
To sink into the two grapes of your feet
Where your twin symmetrical tree burns again and rises
Flowering fire
Open chandelier
A swelling fruit
Over the pact of sea and earth

From what materials
Agate?
Quartz?
Wheat?
Did your body come together?
Swelling like baking bread to signal silvered hills
The cleavage of one petal
Sweet fruits of a deep velvet
Until alone remained
Astonished
The fine and firm feminine form

It is not only light that falls over the world spreading inside your body
Yet suffocate itself
So much is clarity
Taking its leave of you
As if you were on fire within

The moon lives in the lining of your skin.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Pablo Neruda

Julie James, Something About You

My God, Jack - with a look like that, you two should just get a room. And try not to pick the one with a dead body next to it this time.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Julie James, Something About You

E.M. Forster, Howards End

The tragedy of preparedness has scarcely been handled, save by the Greeks. Life is indeed dangerous, but not in the way morality would have us believe. It is indeed unmanageable, but the essence of it is not a battle. It is unmanageable because it is a romance, and its essence is romantic beauty.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by E.M. Forster, Howards End

Edna O'Brien, Lantern Slides: Short Stories

Love . . . is like nature, but in reverse; first it fruits, then it flowers, then it seems to wither, then it goes deep, deep down into its burrow, where no one sees it, where it is lost from sight, and ultimately people die with that secret buried inside their souls.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Edna O'Brien, Lantern Slides: Short Stories

Deborah Harkness, A Discovery of Witches

My ideas about vampires may by romantic, but your attitudes toward women need a major overhaul.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Deborah Harkness, A Discovery of Witches

Tamora Pierce, Bloodhound

Curse him for being all tight muscle, with ivory skin and a mouth as soft as rose petals. Curse him for having hair as fair as the sun, and eyes as black as night. Curse him for having the grace of a cat and deft, cool hands.

And now I am having the same argument on paper that I have in my own head on too many nights. I know my choice is sensible, but it isn't my common sense I think with, those times Rosto's stolen a kiss from me.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Tamora Pierce, Bloodhound

W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

He did not care if she was heartless, vicious and vulgar, stupid and grasping, he loved her. He would rather have misery with one than happiness with the other.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

Richelle Mead, Succubus Blues

Well, that depends, I suppose. I heard someone once say that men dance the same way they have sex. So, if you want everyone here to think you're the kind of guy who just sits around and—"
He stood up. "Let's dance.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Richelle Mead, Succubus Blues

Cassandra Clare

You guessed? You must have been pretty sure, considering you could have killed me."
"I was ninety percent sure."
"I see," Clary said. There must have been something in her voice, because he turned to look at her. Her hand cracked across his face, a slap that rocked him back on his heels. He put his hands on his cheek, more in surprise than pain.
"What the hell was that for?"
"The other ten percent.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Cassandra Clare