Georgette Heyer

I comfort myself with the reflection that your wife will possibly be able to curb your desire--I admit, a natural one for the most part--to exterminate your fellows.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Georgette Heyer

Laurell K. Hamilton, Cerulean Sins

Why is everything always my decision?" I asked.
Because you will not tolerate anything else."
Oh, I remembered now. "Great", I whispered.
- Anita to Jean-Claude

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Laurell K. Hamilton, Cerulean Sins

Richelle Mead, The Indigo Spell

Whatever happened to the dragon?"
I mustered my primmest tone.
"He has a name, you know."
Adrian pulled back and gave me a curious look.
"I didn't know, actually. What'd you decide on?"
"Hopper" When Adrian laughed, I added
"Best rabbit ever. He'd be proud to know his name is being passed on."
"Yes, I'm sure he would. Did you name the Mustang too?"
"I think you mean the Ivashkinator."
He stared at me in wonder.
"I told you I loved you, right?
"Yes," I assured him. "Many Times

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Richelle Mead, The Indigo Spell

Colleen Houck

Wow. I didn’t think it was possible for him to look any more intoxicating than he already did. But a leather clad Ren standing next to the gorgeous racing motorcycle holding his helmet made my brain go numb. I had kind of a this-is-your-brain-on-drugs moment, only mine was more like a this-is-your-brain-on-seeing-Ren-in-tight-leather moment. If they’d been smart, the Ducati Company should have used him in a commercial and given him the bike for free.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Colleen Houck

Emil Ludwig

The decision to kiss for the first time is the most crucial in any love story. It changes the relationship of two people much more strongly than even the final surrender; because this kiss already has within it that surrender.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Emil Ludwig

Sarah Sundin

Sonetimes the hardest person to forgive is yourself.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Sarah Sundin

Philippa Gregory, The Other Boleyn Girl

When they see us dance. When they see how you look at me. When they see how I smile at you.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Philippa Gregory, The Other Boleyn Girl

Joshua Harris, I Kissed Dating Goodbye: A New Attitude Toward Relationships and Romance

The world takes us to a silver screen on which flickering images of passion and romance play, and as we watch, the world says, “This is love.” God takes us to the foot of a tree on which a naked and bloodied man hangs and says, “This is love.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Joshua Harris, I Kissed Dating Goodbye: A New Attitude Toward Relationships and Romance

Hailey Abbott, The Other Boy

David,you’re my true love, why did we wait so long to get together? I don’t care what the world says. Let’s defy them all, my darling.
- Maddy

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Hailey Abbott, The Other Boy

Tara Janzen, Crazy Hot

Hanson got to sleep with you, and I didn't,” he said, his own jaw a little tight. “So I stole his car.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Tara Janzen, Crazy Hot

William Boyd, Restless

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.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by William Boyd, Restless

Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

I often think that he's the only one of us who's achieved immortality. I don't mean in the sense of fame and I don't mean he won't die someday. But he's living it. I think he is what the conception really means. You know how people long to be eternal. But they die with everyday that passes. . . They change, they deny, they contradict- and they call it growth. At the end there is nothing left, nothing unreveresed or unbetrayed; as if there had never been an entity, only a succession of adjectives fading in and out of an unformed mass. How do they expect a permanence which they never held for a single moment? But Howard- one can imagine him living forever.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

Jane Austen, Persuasion

Oh!" cried Anne eagerly, "I hope I do justice to all that is felt by you,
and by those who resemble you. God forbid that I should undervalue
the warm and faithful feelings of any of my fellow-creatures!
I should deserve utter contempt if I dared to suppose that true attachment
and constancy were known only by woman. No, I believe you capable
of everything great and good in your married lives. I believe you equal
to every important exertion, and to every domestic forbearance,
so long as--if I may be allowed the expression--so long as you have
an object. I mean while the woman you love lives, and lives for you.
All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one;
you need not covet it), is that of loving longest, when existence
or when hope is gone.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Jane Austen, Persuasion

Tessa Dare, Twice Tempted by a Rogue

I knew right then you were the only one for me." He pulled her hand
from 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.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Tessa Dare, Twice Tempted by a Rogue

Jane Austen, Love and Friendship

The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Jane Austen, Love and Friendship

Lisa Kleypas, Love in the Afternoon

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.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Lisa Kleypas, Love in the Afternoon

Arthur C. Clarke, 2010: Odyssey Two

After their encounter on the approach to Jupiter, there would aways be a secret bond between them---not of love, but of tenderness, which is often more enduring.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Arthur C. Clarke, 2010: Odyssey Two

Jeaniene Frost, Halfway to the Grave

Usually my form of turning someone down was shoving a stake through his heart while smirking, Gotcha!

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Jeaniene Frost, Halfway to the Grave

Jeri Smith-Ready, Shade

I promise I'll never tell."

"Don't promise that," he said in an ultraserious voice. "If they try to hurt you and the only way to protect yourself is to tell them what you know about me, then you tell them. Straight off, okay?"

"No."

"Promise me."

"No!"

"I will possess your heart."

Heat flared along the back of my neck. "What did you say?"

"My favorite song. 'I Will Possess Your Heart.'"

"By Death Cab for Cutie?"

He snorted. "No, the little known T.I. Hip-hop remix. Yes, Death Cab for Cutie."

... "Why? What's wrong with it?"

"Nothing, but it doesn't seem to fit you. It's kind of a sad song."

"No it's pure confident. It's not 'I want' or 'I need', none of that crap." He slipped his hand over mine. "It's 'I will.'"

A nervous laugh bubbled up. "You will, huh?"

His fingers brushed my cheek, then slid into my hair. "I will.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Jeri Smith-Ready, Shade

Susane Colasanti

Not even a repeat of Dawson’s Creek makes me feel better.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Susane Colasanti

Colin Tegerdine, You Can't Google Life

The price of love is always just above that what your heart can afford

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Colin Tegerdine, You Can't Google Life

Keri Arthur, Destiny Kills

It hurt, remembering. Hurt because there was so much I'd done, so much I'd yet to do. In so many different ways, I now realized, not remembering had been a blessing. A brief respite in the twisted bloody mess that my life had become.
But at least I knew who I was.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Keri Arthur, Destiny Kills

Carol Lynch Williams

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.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Carol Lynch Williams

Lisa Kleypas, Again the Magic

He shook his head, staring at her like a condemned man who beheld the face of his executioner. "Aline," he whispered, "Do you know what hell is?"

"Yes." Her eyes overflowed. "Trying to exist with your heart living somewhere outside your body."

"No. It's knowing that you have so little faith in my love, you would have condemned me to a lifetime of agony." His face contorted suddenly. "To something worse than death.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Lisa Kleypas, Again the Magic

Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes

You could have fooled me. Everytime I called you, Luke said you were sick. I figured you were avoiding me. Again."
"I wasn't. I did want to talk to you. I've been thinking about you all the time."
"I've been thinking about you, too."
"I really was sick. I swear. I almost died back there on the ship, you know."
"I know. Everytime you almost die, I almost die myself.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes

Kaylea Cross, No Turning Back

He’d done it like he did everything else—with passion and total disregard for how much it might embarrass her.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Kaylea Cross, No Turning Back

John Green

Nerd girls are the world’s most underutilized romantic resource. And guys, do not tell me that nerd girls are not hot because that shows a Paris Hilton-esque failure to understand hotness.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by John Green

Julia Quinn, Romancing Mister Bridgerton

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.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Julia Quinn, Romancing Mister Bridgerton

John Eldredge

The culture of women in the church today is crippled by some very pervasive lies. "To be spiritual is to be busy. To be spiritual is to be disciplined. To be spiritual is to be dutiful." No, to be spiritual is to be in Romance with God. The desire to be romanced lies deep in the heart of every women. It is for such that you were made. Are you ARE romanced, and ever will be.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by John Eldredge

Rowena Cherry, Insufficient Mating Material

What in the blue star-blazes did you see in Jason?" he asked, still forcefully but with his frustration and jealousy under better control.

"For one thing, Djetth, he wasn't trying to kill me!"

("Marsh", heroine of Insufficient Mating Material)

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Rowena Cherry, Insufficient Mating Material

Janet Evanovich

Ranger locked eyes with me. "Please," he said.
Tank and Hal were goggle-eyed. They weren't used to "please." I wasn't used to it either. But I liked it.
Okay," I said. "Be careful. He's insane.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Janet Evanovich

Cindy Gerard, To the Brink

He hugged her hard. "I love you. My life is so much better with you in it than out of it.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Cindy Gerard, To the Brink

Marcia Lynn McClure

The trick is finding a person whose flaws don't drive you crazy...you know...someone whose flaws you can live with...someone who can stand your flaws, too.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Marcia Lynn McClure

Heather Dixon, Entwined

Mr. Bradford," she said. "I'm not going to propose to you."

The twinkle in Mr. Bradford's eyes faded. So did his smile. He managed to keep it on his face. It looked painful.

"Oh," he said.

"Mr. Bradford?"

"Yes?"

"Would you mind it so very much if...you know...you proposed to me?"

The light in Mr. Bradford's eyes jumped to life. He beamed so largely it almost wasn't crooked.

"If you want.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Heather Dixon, Entwined

Lisa Kleypas, It Happened One Autumn

You know,” she said dreamily, passing over his question, “you’re not nearly as handsome as Lord St.Vincent.”

“There’s a surprise,” he said dryly.

“But for some reason,” she continued, “I never want to kiss him the way I do you.” It was a good thing that she had closed her eyes, for if she had seen his expression, she might not have continued. “There is something about you that makes me feel terribly wicked. You make me want to do shocking things. Maybe it’s because you’re so proper. Your necktie is never crooked, and your shoes are always shiny. And your shirts are so starchy. Sometimes when I look at you, I want to tear off all your buttons. Or set your trousers on fire.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Lisa Kleypas, It Happened One Autumn

Sherrilyn Kenyon, Born of Shadows

Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Sherrilyn Kenyon, Born of Shadows

Sarah Dessen, Dreamland

Your mother won a special reward," she told me, "because everyone had a head in her pictures. We all applauded.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Sarah Dessen, Dreamland

Kresley Cole, A Hunger Like No Other

Emma turned to him, bottom lip trembling. “For me?”
“Always for you. All things for you. He coughed into his fist “All your own.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Kresley Cole, A Hunger Like No Other

Megan McCafferty, Second Helpings

It's so much easier to convince yourself you're madly in love with someone when you know nothing about him.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Megan McCafferty, Second Helpings

L.J. Smith

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.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by L.J. Smith

Lisa Kleypas, Smooth Talking Stranger

One glance and I knew exactly who and what he was. The classic alpha male, the kind who had spurred evolution forward about five million years ago by nailing every female in sight. They charmed, seduced, and behaved like bastards, and yet women were biologically incapable of resisting their magic DNA.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Lisa Kleypas, Smooth Talking Stranger

P.C. Cast

I'll find you, don't worry. My body won't be with you all the time, but you'll always have my heart. I'm your worrier, remember?"
"I'll never forget. I promise. I'm your High Priestess and you've pledged yourself to me. That means you have my heart, too."
"Then both of us better stay safe. A heart's a hard thing to live without. I should know. I've tried it.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by P.C. Cast

Thea Harrison, Dragon Bound

There are plastic bags with zippers on them. I've seen them in commercials," Dragos said to her. He snapped his fingers, trying to remember the name. "You put food in them."
"Ziploc bags?" she asked in a cautious voice.
He pointed at her. "Yes. I want one.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Thea Harrison, Dragon Bound

Claudia Gray, Evernight

If you loved someone, you couldn’t let lies come between you. No matter what happened—even if you’d already lost each other forever—you owed each other the truth.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Claudia Gray, Evernight

Rowena Cherry, Insufficient Mating Material

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...

-- Rhett

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Rowena Cherry, Insufficient Mating Material

Anonymous, Study Bible: NIV

There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven:
a time to be born and a time to die,
a time to plant and a time to uproot,
a time to kill and a time to heal,
a time to tear down and a time to build,
a time to weep and a time to laugh,
a time to mourn and a time to dance,
a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,
a time to embrace and a time to refrain,
a time to search and a time to give up,
a time to keep and a time to throw away,
a time to tear and a time to mend,
a time to be silent and a time to speak,
a time to love and a time to hate,
a time for war and a time for peace.

(Ecclesiastes 3:1-8, NIV)

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Anonymous, Study Bible: NIV

J.R. Ward, Lover Unbound

They don't fit you?" V asked his roommate.
"Not the point. No offense, but these are wicked Village People." Butch held his heavy arms out and turned in a circle, his bare chest catching the light. "I mean, come on."
"They're for fighting, not fashion."
"So are kilts, but you don't see me rocking the tartan."
"And thank God for that. You're too bowlegged to pull that shit off."
Butch assumed a bored expression. "You can bite me.

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

Cristina Marrero, The Unsung Love Story

Together, in that room, our childhood notions of love melted away. We discovered love was not a fairytale. Sometime there were no happy endings, and when there were, you needed to work like hell to keep the happiness alive

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

Nora Roberts, Black Hills

Do you know how many ways love can hit you? So it makes you happy, or miserable? It makes you sick in the belly or hurt in the heart. It makes everything brighter and sharper, or it blurs all the edges. It makes you feel like a king or a fool. Every way love can hit you, it's hit me when it comes to you

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Nora Roberts, Black Hills

Jon Bon Jovi, Best of Bon Jovi

Take my hand and we'll make it - I swear

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Jon Bon Jovi, Best of Bon Jovi

William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

Colleen Houck, Tiger's Quest

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.

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

Ottilie Weber, Family Ties

Yet I am stuck in the idea of romance, a dreamer; I want to actually fall in love with a man, then marry him

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Ottilie Weber, Family Ties

Heather Kris Thomas, A Place for You and Me

I'd run my whole life long to reach you; paddle my way across Atlantic and Pacific; traverse Jungle and Desert to find you; climb cliffs and drop from the sky to rescue you. Anything to be close to you. Any way to say I love you.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Heather Kris Thomas, A Place for You and Me

Jess C. Scott, The Intern

Those sweet lips. My, oh my, I could kiss those lips all night long.

Good things come to those who wait.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Jess C. Scott, The Intern

Nora Roberts, Tribute

I find myself fascinated by a man who admits to enjoying fairy tales and uses the word "impinge"- barely misses a beat while indulging in a brief girl-on-girl fantasy. You're a man of layers, Ford."
Me and Shrek, we're onions.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Nora Roberts, Tribute

Tessa Dare, Three Nights with a Scoundrel

You don't want me to feel obligated? Well, I'm sorry, Lily. I am here
because I feel obligated." He brought her hand to his chest, pressing her
palm flat against his rapidly thumping pulse. "I'm obligated by my heart. It's
decided 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.

Romantic Quotes And Sayings by Tessa Dare, Three Nights with a Scoundrel