Romance

“She had two lips like strawberries, and the seeds gave her kisses texture. I preferred kissing her over two scoops of vanilla ice cream.
”

― Jarod Kintz, This Book Has No Title

“Isn't it funny how the memories you cherish before a breakup can become your worst enemies afterwards? The thoughts you loved to think about, the memories you wanted to hold up to the light and view from every angle--it suddenly seems a lot safer to lock them in a box, far from the light of day and throw away the key. It's not an act of bitterness. It's an act if self-preservation. It's not always a bad idea to stay behind the window and look out at life instead, is it?”

― Ally Condie, First Day

“The fact is…I’m in love with you, and I have been for some time.”

― Colleen Houck, Tiger's Curse

“What are you doing?”

“Kneeling before a goddess.”

“I’m not a goddess.”

“You are. A goddess, a princess, a queen. As a soldier, I pledge myself to your service. As a prince, I grant you any boon within my power. As a man, I ask to sit at your feet and worship you. Ask me to do anything for you and I will do it.”

― Colleen Houck

“But love, I’ve come to understand, is more than three words mumbled before bedtime. Love is sustained by action, a pattern of devotion in the things we do for each other every day.”

― Nicholas Sparks, The Wedding

“Were you always such a stubborn, blind, obtuse girl?”

“Are you calling me stupid?”

“Yes, but in a more poetic way!”

“Well, here’s a poem for you. Get lost!”

― Colleen Houck

“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.”

― John Green

“Love is too precious to be ashamed of.”

― Laurell K. Hamilton, A Stroke of Midnight

“Too bad guys aren’t like Mr. Potato Head Where you can pick and choose which parts you want. Then we might come up with a guy who meets your standards.

- Maggie”

― Susane Colasanti, When It Happens

“There are many different types of kisses. There’s a passionate kiss of farewell—like the kind Rhett gave Scarlett when he went off to war. The kiss of I-can’t-really-be-with-you-but-I-want-to-be—like with Superman and Lois Lane. There’s the first kiss—one that is gentle and hesitant, warm and vulnerable. And then there’s the kiss of possession—which was how Ren kissed me now.

It went beyond passion, beyond desire. His kiss was full of longing, need, and love, like all those other kisses. But, it was also filled with promises and pledges, some of which seemed sweet and tender while others seemed dangerous and exciting. He was taking me over. Staking a claim.

He seized me as boldly as the tiger captured 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. ”

― Colleen Houck, Tiger's Quest

“Nice dress. Take it off.”

― Janet Evanovich

“Poor fellow! I think he is in love with you.'

I am not aware of it. And to me it is one of the most odious things in a girl's life, that there must always be some supposition of falling in love coming between her and any man who is kind to her... I have no ground for the nonsensical vanity of fancying everybody who comes near me is in love with me.”

― George Eliot

“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.”

― P.C. Cast

“Believe me, I'm no romantic, and while I've heard all about love at first sight, I've never believed in it, and I still don't. But even so, there was something there, something recognizably real, and I couldn't look away.”

― Nicholas Sparks, Dear John

“For thousands of nights I dreamed of making love to you. No man on earth has ever hated sunrise as I do.”

― Lisa Kleypas, Again the Magic

“The letter had been crumpled up and tossed onto the grate. It had burned all around the edges, so the names at the top and bottom had gone up in smoke. But there was enough of the bold black scrawl to reveal that it had indeed been a love letter. And as Hannah read the singed and half-destroyed parchment, she was forced to turn away to hide the trembling of her hand.

—should warn you that this letter will not be eloquent. However, it will be sincere, especially in light of the fact that you will never read it. I have felt these words like a weight in my chest, until I find myself amazed that a heart can go on beating under such a burden.

I love you. I love you desperately, violently, tenderly, completely. I want you in ways that I know you would find shocking. My love, you don't belong with a man like me. In the past I've done things you wouldn't approve of, and I've done them ten times over. I have led a life of immoderate sin. As it turns out, I'm just as immoderate in love. Worse, in fact.

I want to kiss every soft place of you, make you blush and faint, pleasure you until you weep, and dry every tear with my lips. If you only knew how I crave the taste of you. I want to take you in my hands and mouth and feast on you. I want to drink wine and honey from you.

I want you under me. On your back.

I'm sorry. You deserve more respect than that. But I can't stop thinking of it. Your arms and legs around me. Your mouth, open for my kisses. I need too much of you. A lifetime of nights spent between your thighs wouldn't be enough.

I want to talk with you forever. I remember every word you've ever said to me.

“Sometimes I wonder if there's something wrong with me. Perhaps I've spent too long in the company of my literary romantic heroes, and consequently my ideals and expectations are far too high.”

― E.L. James, Fifty Shades of Grey

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

― E.L. James, Fifty Shades of Grey

“Does this mean you’re going to make love to me tonight, Christian?” Holy shit. Did I just say that? His mouth drops open slightly, but he recovers quickly.

“No, Anastasia it doesn’t. Firstly, I don’t make love. I fuck… hard. Secondly, there’s a lot more paperwork to do, and thirdly, you don’t yet know what you’re in for. You could still run for the hills. Come, I want to show you my playroom.”

My mouth drops open. Fuck hard! Holy shit, that sounds so… hot. But why are we looking at a playroom? I am mystified.

“You want to play on your Xbox?” I ask. He laughs, loudly.

“No, Anastasia, no Xbox, no Playstation. Come.”… Producing a key from his pocket, he unlocks yet another door and takes a deep breath.

“You can leave anytime. The helicopter is on stand-by to take you whenever you want to go, you can stay the night and go home in the morning. It’s fine whatever you decide.”

“Just open the damn door, Christian.”

He opens the door and stands back to let me in. I gaze at him once more. I so want to know what’s in here. Taking a deep breath I walk in.

And it feels like I’ve time-traveled back to the sixteenth century and the Spanish Inquisition.

Holy fuck.”

― E.L. James, Fifty Shades of Grey

“No. No, I don't believe you'd betray me with her. I don't believe you'd cheat on me. But I'm afraid, and I'm sick in my heart that you might look at her, then at me. And regret.”

― J.D. Robb, Innocent in Death

“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.”

― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

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

Good things come to those who wait.”

― Jess C. Scott, The Intern

“Here's something else to think about: calling when you say you're going to is the very first brick in the house you are building of love and trust. If he can't lay this one stupid brick down, you ain't never gonna have a house baby, and it's cold outside.”

― Greg Behrendt, He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys

“You don’t take away my choices. You are my choice.”

― Colleen Houck

“For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.”

― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

“Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.”

― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

“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.”

― Margaret Atwood

“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.”

― Stephanie Laurens, The Edge of Desire

“Things work out the way they're meant to”

― Danielle Steel, No Greater Love

“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.”

― Anonymous, Holy Bible: King James Version

“By the way, I haven't heard an 'I'm sorry' from you yet." My sense of grievance had overwhelmed my sense of self-preservation.

I am sorry that the maenad picked on you."

I glared at him. "Not enough," I said. I was trying hard to hang on to this conversation.

Angelic Sookie, vision of love and beauty, I am prostrate that the wicked evil maenad violated your smooth and voluptuous body, in an attempt to deliver a message to me."

That's more like it.”

― Charlaine Harris, Living Dead in Dallas

“It would be mortifying to the feelings of many ladies, could they be made to understand how little the heart of a man is affected by what is costly or new in their attire... Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter.”

― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“There is a place you can touch a woman that will drive her crazy. Her heart.”

― Melanie Griffith

“If a man wants you, nothing can keep him away. If he doesn't want you, nothing can make him stay.”

― Oprah Winfrey

“Only love of a good woman will make a man question every choice, every action. Only love makes a warrior hesitate for fear that his lady will find him cruel. Only love makes a man both the best he will ever be, and the weakest. Sometimes all in the same moment. -Wicked ”

― Laurell K. Hamilton

“We kiss all the time." I clear my throat, then add, "We just...do it in private."

"A smug expression crosses his face. "I don't buy it for a second, 'cause if you were my girlfriend and a stud like me was livin' in your house, I'd kiss you in front of the guy every chance I got as a reminder."

"A reminder of w-w-what?"

"That you were mine.”

― Simone Elkeles, Rules of Attraction

“Statistically speaking, there is a 65 percent chance that the love of your life is having an affair. Be very suspicious.”

― Scott Dikkers, You Are Worthless: Depressing Nuggets of Wisdom Sure to Ruin Your Day

“If I let myself love you, I won't throw myself in front of her. I'll throw myself in front of you.”

― Richelle Mead, Vampire Academy

“Attraction is not an option. ”

― Neil Strauss

“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?”

― Greg Behrendt, He's Just Not That Into You

“There is a desire within each of us,

in the deep center of ourselves

that we call our heart.

We were born with it,

it is never completely satisfied,

and it never dies.

We are often unaware of it,

but it is always awake.

It is the Human desire for Love.

Every person in this Earth yearns to love,

to be loved, to know love.

Our true identity, our reason for being

is to be found in this desire.

Love is the "why" of life,

why we are functioning at all.

I am convinced

it is the fundamental energy

of the human spirit.

the fuel on which we run,

the wellspring of our vitality.

And grace,

which is the flowing,

creative activity, of love itself,

is what makes all goodness possible.

Love should come first,

it should be the beginning of,

and the reason for everything.”

― Gerald G. May, Living in Love

“There aren't any syringes." Red Sox came over and held a sterile pack out. When she tried to take it form him, he kept a grip on the thing. "I know you'll use this wisely."

"Wisely?" She snapped the syringe out of his hand. "No, I'm going to poke him in the eye with it. Because that's what they trained me to do in medical school.”

― J.R. Ward, Lover Unbound

“You're a hero and a gentleman, you're kind and honest, but more than that, you're the first man I ever truly loved. And no matter what the future brings, you always will be, and I know that my life is better for it.”

― Nicholas Sparks, Dear John

“After a moment, Wrath turned to John. "This is Lassiter, the fallen angel. One of the last times he was here on earth, there was a plague in central Europe-"

"Okay, that was so not my fault-"

"-which wiped out two-thirds of the human population."

"I'd like to remind you that you don't like humans."

"They smell bad when they're dead."

"All you mortal types do.”

― J.R. Ward, Lover Enshrined

“I seem to have run in a great circle, and met myself again on the starting line.”

― Jeanette Winterson, Oranges are Not the Only Fruit

“Sam laughed, a funny, self-deprecating laugh. "You did read a lot. And spent too much time just inside the kitchen window, where I couldn't see you very well."

"And not enough time mostly naked in front of my bedroom window?" I teased.

Sam turned bright red. "That," he said, "is so not the point of this conversation.”

― Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver

“what a luxury it was for people to hold their loved ones whenever they wanted”

― Cecelia Ahern, P.S. I Love You

“My beloved is the sun

And I am the earth that thrives only in her warmth. My beloved is the rain

And I am the grass that thirsts for her quenching kiss. My beloved is the wind

And I am the wings that soar when she fills me with her gentle strength.

My beloved is the rock

Upon which rests the happiness of all my days.

—The Elements of Love, a poem by Aileron v'En Kavali of the Fey”

― C.L. Wilson, Lord of the Fading Lands

“I decided to find you, throw myself at your feet, and beg you to have mercy on me. Honestly, I’ll accept whatever you choose, Kelsey. Just don’t ask me to live apart from you again. Because...I can’t.”

― Colleen Houck, Tiger's Quest

“Like some wines our love could neither mature nor travel.”

― Graham Greene, The Comedians

“You picked a lemon, throw it away lemonade is overrated. Freaks should remain at the circus, not in your apartment. You already have one asshole. You don’t need another. Make a space in your life for the glorious things you deserve. Have faith.”

― Greg Behrendt, He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys

“And then there are the rare ones who know love, who understand it. Who freely give of themselves, demanding only a return of that love,that trust.”

― Kim Harrison, Every Which Way But Dead

“But I couldn't help myself, couldn't help the way I felt as I recalled the bliss and rush of a vampire's bite.”

― Richelle Mead, Vampire Academy

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

― Dorothy Parker

“Just because I'm not forever by your side doesn't mean that's not precisely where I want to be.”

― Stephanie Laurens, A Rogue's Proposal

“Know that love is truly timeless.”

― Mary M. Ricksen

“That's when you know for sure somebody loves you. They figure out what you need and they give it to you -- without you asking.”

― Adriana Trigiani, Very Valentine

“Whoa. Fangs. She had fangs.

She leaned in, prodded them a little. Eating with those puppies was going to take some getting used to, she thought. On impulse, she brought up her hands, turned her fingers into claws. Hissed. Cool.”

― J.R. Ward, Dark Lover

“You are mine, woman, and I am yours. Until you, my life was desolate. I existed, but I didn't truly live. Now I live, even in my death.”

― Gena Showalter, The Darkest Night

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

― Megan McCafferty, Second Helpings

“Hey, our hair's the same color," I said, eying us side by side in the mirror.

"Sure is, girlfriend." Eric grinned at me.”

― Charlaine Harris, Living Dead in Dallas

“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.”

― David Sedaris, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim

“His lips tasted cool and sharp, peppermint, winter, but his hands, soft on the back of my neck, promised long days and summer and forever.”

― Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver

“Oh, aye, Sassenach. I am your master . . . and you're mine. Seems I canna possess your soul without losing my own.”

― Diana Gabaldon, Outlander

“Sometimes you know you've got a chance with a girl because she wants to fight with you. If the world wasn't so messed up, it wouldn't be like that. If the world was normal, a girl being nice to you would be a good sign, but in the real world, it isn't.”

― Nick Hornby

“I will tell you what Jeanne was like. She was like a piano in a country where everyone has had their hands cut off.”

― Angela Carter

If only I could visit you as a foreigner goes into a new country, learn the language of you, wander past all borders into every private and secret place, I would stay forever. I would become a citizen of you.

You would say it's too soon to feel this way. You would ask how I could be so certain. But some things can't be measured by time. Ask me an hour from now. Ask me a month from now. A year, ten years, a lifetime. The way I love you will outlast every calendar, clock, and every toll of every bell that will ever be cast. If only you—

And there it stopped.”

― Lisa Kleypas, A Wallflower Christmas

“I feel good with my husband: I like his warmth and his bigness and his being-there and his making and his jokes and stories and what he reads and how he likes fishing and walks and pigs and foxes and little animals and is honest and not vain or fame-crazy and how he shows his gladness for what I cook him and joy for when I make him something, a poem or a cake, and how he is troubled when I am unhappy and wants to do anything so I can fight out my soul-battles and grow up with courage and a philosophical ease. I love his good smell and his body that fits with mine as if they were made in the same body-shop to do just that. What is only pieces, doled out here and there to this boy and that boy, that made me like pieces of them, is all jammed together in my husband. So I don't want to look around any more: I don't need to look around for anything.”

― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“Blood of my Blood," he whispered, "and bone of my bone. You carry me within ye, Claire, and ye canna leave me now, no matter what happens, You are mine, always, if ye will it or no, if ye want me or nay. Mine, and I wilna let ye go.”

― Diana Gabaldon, Dragonfly in Amber

“And yes, I’ll admit, I am jealous. I’m jealous of every minute you spend with him, of every concerned expression you send his way, of every tear shed, of every glance, every touch, and every thought. I want to rip him to pieces and purge him from your mind and from your heart. But I can’t.”

― Colleen Houck

“No problem," Gale replies. "I wake up ten times a night anyway."

"To make sure Katniss is still here?" asks Peeta.

"Something like that,"...

"That was funny, what Tigris said. About no one knowing what to do with her."

"Well, WE never have,"...

"She loves you, you know," says Peeta. "She as good as told me after they whipped you."

"Don't believe it,"Gale answers. "The way she kissed you in the Quarter Quell...well she never kissed me like that."

"It was just part of the show," Peeta tells him, although there's an edge of doubt in his voice.

"No, you won her over. Gave up everything for her. Maybe that's the only way to convince her you love her." There's a long pause. "I should have volunteered to take your place in the first Games. Protected her then."

"You couldn't," says Peeta. "She'd never have forgiven you. You had to take care of her family. They matter more to her than her life."

...

"I wonder how she'll make up her mind."

"Oh, that I do know." I can just catch Gale's last words through the layer of fur. "Katniss will pick whoever she thinks she can't survive without”

― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

“The door banged open and Eve rushed out, flushed and mussed and still buttoning her shirt. "It's not what you think." She said. "It was just - oh OK, whatever, it was exactly what you think. Now WHAT?”

― Rachel Caine, Lord of Misrule

“V-Day…if you need this one day in a year to show everyone else you truly care for “your loved one” I think it’s quite stupid. I hate this commercialism. It’s all artificial, and has nothing to do with real love.”

― Jess C. Scott, EyeLeash: A Blog Novel

“ 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.”

― Natalie Clifford Barney

“There is darkness in light, there is pain in joy, and there are thorns on the rose.”

― Cate Tiernan

“Colin decided then and there that the female mind was a strange and incomprehensible organ - one which no man should even attempt to understand. There wasn't a woman alive who could go from point A to B without stopping at C, D, X, and 12 along the way.”

― Julia Quinn, Romancing Mister Bridgerton

“Having sex multiple times on the first sleepover does not count as more than one “date”…”

― Rowena Cherry, Knight's Fork

“He smiled at that, and then his gaze shifted to a spot over my shoulder and it faded. 'These doubts wouldn’t have anything to do with the company you’re keeping of late, would they?'

I didn’t get a chance to answer before the shop door was thrown open and a furious war mage stomped in. Pritkin spotted me and his eyes narrowed.

'You shaved my legs?!'

Mircea looked at me and folded his arms across his chest. I looked from one unhappy face to the other and suddenly remembered that I had somewhere else to be.”

― Karen Chance, Curse the Dawn

“I knew from the moment I heard you, the moment I saw the gun and realized that this lovely, petit woman was the executioner, that you would never die waiting for me to save you - that you would save yourself.”

― Laurell K. Hamilton, Narcissus in Chains

“V shook his head. “Remember what you saw in that clearing, cop? How’d you like that anywhere near a female you loved?”

Butch put down the Bud without drinking from it. His eyes traveled over Rhage’s body.

“We’re going to need a shitload of steel,” the human muttered.”

― J.R. Ward, Lover Eternal

“I look down at our knees, slightly touching. Jeans against jeans. Does she notice the heat transferring from her body to mine? Does she even realize what she's doing to me? I know, I know. I'm not a virgin and the slightest touch of a girl's knee is driving me insane. I don't even know what I'm feeling for Maggie, I just know that I'm feeling. It's something I've tried to avoid and deny until yesterday, when I held her in my arms while her tears spilled onto my shirt.

God, our knees touching isn't enough. I need more.

She's knotting her fingers together on her lap as if she doesn't know what to do with them. I want to touch her, but what if she pulls away like before? I've never been such a wuss with a girl in my life.

I bite my bottom lip as I slide my hand about millionth of a millimeter closer to her hand.

She doesn't seem fazed so I move closer. And closer.

When the tips of my fingers touch her wrist, she freezes. But she doesn't jerk her hand away. God, her skin is so soft, I think as my fingers trail a path from her wrist to her knuckles to her smooth, manicured nails.

I swear touching her like this is driving me nuts. It's more erotic, more intense than any other time with Kendra. I feel awkward and inexperienced as a freshman again. I look up. Everyone else is oblivious to the intensity of emotions running rampant in the back of the public bus.

When I look back down at my hand covering hers, I'm grateful she hasn't come to her senses and pulled away. As if she knows my thoughts, we both turn our hands at the same time so our hands are palm against palm...finger against finger. Her hand is dwarfed against mine. It makes her seem more delicate and petite than I'd realize. I feel a need to protect her and be her champion should she ever need one.

With a slight shift of my hand, I lace my fingers through hers.

I'm holding hands. With Maggie Armstrong.

I'm not even going to think about how wrong it is because it feels so right. She's avoided looking right at me, but now she turns her head and our eyes lock. God, how come I never noticed before how long her lashes were and how her brown eyes have specks of gold that sparkle when the sun shine on them?

The bus stops suddenly and I look out the window. It's our stop. She must have realized this because she pulls her hand away from mine and stands. I follow behind, still reeling.”

― Simone Elkeles, Leaving Paradise

“His eyes drifted leisurely back up to my face and he smiled at me appreciatively, “Kelsey, when a man spends time with a beautiful woman, he needs to pace himself. I quirked my eyebrow at him and laughed. “Yeah, I’m a regular marathon alright.” He kissed my fingers. “Exactly. A wise man never sprints…in a marathon.”

― Colleen Houck, Tiger's Curse

“I've been in love with you since the very beginning. You asked why there isn't anyone else in my life, and the reason... is you" - J.D.”

― Julie James, Practice Makes Perfect

“Yeah, tell me I’m a bottle of single malt scotch, she thought. That’s the way to my heart.”

― L.J. Smith, Nightfall

“Come on, it’s an American tradition. Apple soup? Mom’s homemade chicken pie?'

She chuckled in spite of herself, then winced. 'It’s apple pie and Mom’s homemade chicken soup. But you didn’t do badly, for a start.”

― L.J. Smith, Nightfall

“Vampires. Honestly, they're like children sometimes. ”

― Richelle Mead, Succubus Blues

“Tell you what, you let me go, and I’ll ask you plenty of questions about your race. Until then, I’m slightly distracted with how this little vacation on the good ship Holy Sh*t is going to pan out for me.”

-Jane to V”

― J.R. Ward, Lover Unbound

“Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.”

― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“I felt like an animal, and animals don’t know sin, do they?”

― Jess C. Scott, Wicked Lovely

“Peeta you said you had a crush on me forever...when did forever begin?"

"I guess it was the first day of school,we were five, you had a red plaid dress adn your hair was in two braids instead of one. My fatehr pointed you out when we were waiting to line up"

"your father?why?"

"he siad,'see that little girl? I wanted to marry her mother but she ran off with a coal miner"

"what?no your making that up"

"no, true story and I said, 'coal miner? why would she wnat a coal miner when she could have you?' and he said, because when he sings even the birds stop to listen."

"its true,they do...I mean they did"

"so that day in the music assembly when the teacher asked who knew the valley song, and your hand shot straight up in the ari and she put you on a stool, so you could sing it for us all....and I swear every bird outside that window fell silent"

"oh..please"

"no it happened, and as soon as that song ended, i knew just like your mother I was a goner and then I spend the next eleven years trying to make up the nerve to talk to you"

"without success"

"without successs"he agreed,"so in a way my name being was a real piece of luck"

"you have a remarkable memory"

"I remember everything about you its you who wasn't paying attention"

"I am now"

"well, I don't have much competation out here"

"you don't have much competation anywhere"

they leaned in and kised

must see its amazing!!”

― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“I didn't want it to be one good memory that led to a lot of bad ones. I wanted it to stay what it was, one amazing moment, something that was strong and sweet enough to stand on its own. Something I could remember without any pain.

- Kate”

― Elizabeth Scott, Perfect You

“We all know interspecies romance is weird.”

― Tim Burton

“A lot of men wouldn't like being called a romantic. It's not macho enough.'

Quite often men are fools.”

― P.C. Cast, Goddess of Light

“Your absence has not taught me to be alone, it merely has shown that when together we cast a single shadow on the wall.”

― Doug Fetherling

“You are more to me than any of them has any idea; you are the atmosphere of beauty through which I see life; you are the incarnation of all lovely things...I think of you day and night. ~ Letter to Lord Alfred 'Bosie' Douglas”

― Oscar Wilde

“They were within twenty yards of each other, and so abrupt was his appearance, that it was impossible to avoid his sight. Their eyes instantly met, and the cheeks of each were overspread with the deepest blush. He absolutely started, and for a moment seemed immoveable from surprise; but shortly recovering himself, advanced towards the party, and spoke to Elizabeth, if not in terms of perfect composure, at least of perfect civility.”

― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“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.”

― J.R. Ward, Lover Unbound

“What every girl dreams of when she's dumped is - that the guy will someday feel regrest and come back and tell her all about it. And the beauty of it is you have no regrets whatsoever.”

― Emily Giffin

“Plan B?' Ivy said. 'What is plan B?'

Jenks reddened. 'Grab the fish and run like hell,' he muttered, and I almost giggled.”

― Kim Harrison, A Fistful of Charms

“The tune was sad, as the best of Ireland was, melancholy and lovely as a lover's tears.”

― Nora Roberts, Born in Fire

“The entire time I'm burning in Hell, I'll regret each tear I made you weep. But if Hell were the price for twenty days with you, I'd condemn myself again and again.

- Cian MacKeltar ”

― Karen Marie Moning, Spell of the Highlander

“He's like a drug for you, Bella.”

― Stephenie Meyer, Eclipse

“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.”

― Cassandra Clare, City of Glass

“You can't force love, I realized. It's there or it isn't. If it's not there, you've got to be able to admit it. If it is there, you've got to do whatever it takes to protect the ones you love.”

― Richelle Mead, Frostbite

“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.”

― Shana Abé

“The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. And that's what you've given me. That's what I'd hoped to give you forever”

― Nicholas Sparks

“When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You know that your name is safe in their mouth.”

― Jess C. Scott, The Intern

“And I'm suppose to sit by while you date boys and fall in love with someone else, get married...?" His voice tightened. "And meanwhile, I'll die a little bit more every day, watching.”

― Cassandra Clare, City of Glass

“Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you're wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn't love you anymore.”

― Lady Gaga

“I can feel Peeta press his forehead into my temple and he asks, 'So now that you've got me, what are you going to do with me?' I turn into him. 'Put you somewhere you can't get hurt.”

― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“I no longer believed in the idea of soul mates, or love at first sight. But I was beginning to believe that a very few times in your life, if you were lucky, you might meet someone who was exactly right for you. Not because he was perfect, or because you were, but because your combined flaws were arranged in a way that allowed two separate beings to hinge together.”

― Lisa Kleypas, Blue-Eyed Devil

“I have a history of making decisions very quickly about men. I have always fallen in love fast and without measuring risks. I have a tendency not only to see the best in everyone, but to assume that everyone is emotionally capable of reaching his highest potential. I have fallen in love more times than I care to count with the highest potential of a man, rather than with the man himself, and I have hung on to the relationship for a long time (sometimes far too long) waiting for the man to ascend to his own greatness. Many times in romance I have been a victim of my own optimism.”

― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“They didn’t agree on much. In fact, they didn’t agree on anything. They fought all the time and challenged each other ever day. But despite their differences, they had one important thing in common. They were crazy about each other.”

― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

“If music be the food of love, play on,

Give me excess of it; that surfeiting,

The appetite may sicken, and so die.”

― William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

“There was a clatter as the basilisk fangs cascaded out of Hermione's arms. Running at Ron, she flung them around his neck and kissed him full on the mouth. Ron threw away the fangs and broomstick he was holding and responded with such enthusiasm that he lifted Hermione off her feet.

"Is this the moment?" Harry asked weakly, and when nothing happened except that Ron and Hermione gripped each other still more firmly and swayed on the spot, he raised his voice. "OI! There's a war going on here!"

Ron and Hermione broke apart, their arms still around each other.

"I know, mate," said Ron, who looked as though he had recently been hit on the back of the head with a Bludger, "so it's now or never, isn't it?"

"Never mind that, what about the Horcrux?" Harry shouted. "D'you think you could just --- just hold it in, until we've got the diadem?"

"Yeah --- right --- sorry ---" said Ron, and he and Hermione set about gathering up fangs, both pink in the face.”

― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“The very essence of romance is uncertainty.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays

“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.”

― Cassandra Clare

“I knew, in the silence that followed, that anything could happen here. It might be too late: again, I might have missed my chance. But I would at least know I tried, that I took my heart and extended my hand, whatever the outcome.

"Okay," he said. He took a breath. "What would you do, if you could do anything?"

I took a step toward him, closing the space between us. "This," I said. And then I kissed him.”

― Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever

“You here to finish me off, Sweetheart?”

― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.”

― E.M. Forster, A Room with a View

“Only a true best friend can protect you from your immortal enemies.”

― Richelle Mead, Vampire Academy

“True love is rare, and it's the only thing that gives life real meaning.”

― Nicholas Sparks, Message in a Bottle

“I stood still, vision blurring, and in that moment, I heard my heart break. It was a small, clean sound, like the snapping of a flower's stem.”

― Diana Gabaldon, Dragonfly in Amber

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

― Becca Fitzpatrick, Hush, Hush

“If loving someone is putting them in a straitjacket and kicking them down a flight of stairs, then yes, I have loved a few people.”

― Jarod Kintz, It Occurred to Me

“My soul will find yours.”

― Jude Deveraux, A Knight in Shining Armor

“When love is not madness it is not love.”

― Pedro Calderón de la Barca

“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.”

― Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes

“And he took her in his arms and kissed her under the sunlit sky, and he cared not that they stood high upon the walls in the sight of many.”

― J.R.R. Tolkien

“If he’s not calling you, it’s because you are not on his mind. If he creates expectations for you, and then doesn’t follow through on little things, he will do same for big things. Be aware of this and realize that he’s okay with disappointing you. Don’t be with someone who doesn’t do what they say they’re going to do. If he’s choosing not to make a simple effort that would put you at ease and bring harmony to a recurring fight, then he doesn’t respect your feelings and needs. “Busy” is another word for “asshole.” “Asshole” is another word for the guy you’re dating. You deserve a fcking phone call.”

― Greg Behrendt

“I was smiling yesterday,I am smiling today and I will smile tomorrow.Simply because life is too short to cry for anything.”

― Santosh Kalwar, Quote Me Everyday

“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.”

― William Shakespeare

“You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.”

― Albert Camus, The Fall

“I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.”

― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“I can listen no longer in silence. I must speak to you by such means as are within my reach. You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight years and a half ago. Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you. Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant. You alone have brought me to Bath. For you alone, I think and plan. Have you not seen this? Can you fail to have understood my wishes? I had not waited even these ten days, could I have read your feelings, as I think you must have penetrated mine. I can hardly write. I am every instant hearing something which overpowers me. You sink your voice, but I can distinguish the tones of that voice when they would be lost on others. Too good, too excellent creature! You do us justice, indeed. You do believe that there is true attachment and constancy among men. Believe it to be most fervent, most undeviating, in F. W.

I must go, uncertain of my fate; but I shall return hither, or follow your party, as soon as possible. A word, a look, will be enough to decide whether I enter your father's house this evening or never.”

― Jane Austen, Persuasion

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

― Jane Austen, Love and Friendship

“Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze. ”

― Elinor Glyn

“Peeta, how come I never know when you're having a nightmare?” I say.

“I don't know. I don't think I cry out or thrash around or anything. I just come to, paralyzed with terror,” he says.

“You should wake me,” I say, thinking about how I can interrupt his sleep two or three times on a bad night. About how long it can take to calm me down.

“It's not necessary. My nightmares are usually about losing you,” he says. “I'm okay once I realize you're here.”

― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

“Sometimes when I'm alone, I take the pearl from where it lives in my pocket and try to remember the boy with the bread, the strong arms that warded off nightmares on the train, the kisses in the arena.”

― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

“The fact is, I love him. He's the boy I want and one day he'll be MINE.”

― Meg Cabot, Princess in Training

“You’re dangerous,” he says.

“Why?”

“Because you make me believe in the impossible”

― Simone Elkeles, Rules of Attraction

“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. ”

― Richelle Mead, Succubus Blues

“thus with a kiss I die”

― William Shakespeare

“You are speaking of my future lover. Be more respectful.”

― Charlaine Harris, Club Dead

“In our time together, you claimed a special place in my heart, one I'll carry with me forever and that no one can ever replace.”

― Nicholas Sparks, Dear John

“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.”

― Kathleen Tessaro

“Romance is thinking about your significant other, when you are supposed to be thinking about something else.”

― 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.”

― Nicholas Sparks

“When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“He sighed. "The clouds I can handle. But I can't fight with an eclipse.”

― Stephenie Meyer, Eclipse

“Damn me to hell or take me to heaven, but for Gods sake, do it now....”

― Nora Roberts, The Stanislaski Brothers: Mikhail and Alex