Romance Novel Quotes

“You were always mine. -Black”
― L.J. Shen, Vicious

“So, you do speak English. That makes sense now.” Catherine said, shaking her head.

“Of course, I speak English. I’m from Australia, not Tanzania.”
― Diane Merrill Wigginton, A Compromising Position

“Didn’t anyone ever teach you to watch where you were going?” he teased.

“Didn’t anyone ever teach you to put your things away so that people didn’t trip over them?” she quickly fired back, irritated that he found the entire situation amusing. “And while we are talking, I truly need to know. Do you ever wear clothes?”
― Diane Merrill Wigginton, A Compromising Position

“Choosing to be with you isn't a difficult decision, Jacqueline," he breathed, pulling back one final time to stare into my eyes. "It's easy. Incredibly easy.”
― Tammara Webber, Easy

“If there was one thing a former sniper could do well, it was wait. Patiently. Quietly. Without a sound. Barely a movement. Just him, a quiet mind and his breath.”
― J. Rose Black, Losing My Breath

“Tapi kalo aku ngelupain kamu, aku lupa caranya bahagia.”
― Christian Simamora, Pillow Talk

“I would be a fool to lose my heart to him, but I am tempted more each day.”
― Nicole Jordan

“You try spending six months sitting at somebody's bedside, waiting for them to die and then tell me that the happy-ending love story isn't one of God's good gifts.”
― Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Ain't She Sweet?

“When she got back from taking Cassie to school Fancy knew that she ought to be working on her wilderness romance. She had promised thirty thousand words to her editor by tomorrow, and she had only written eleven. Specifically:
His rhinoceros smelled like a poppadom: sweaty, salty, strange and strong.
Her editor would cut that line.”
― Jaclyn Moriarty, The Spell Book of Listen Taylor

“I’ve been asking you to marry me since we met! What more do you want?”
― Chayada Welljaipet, Eternal Love

“The hours tick by as I lie in bed.
Memories keep surfacing, tormenting me into unbelievable sadness. I can't bring myself to move. I can't fight the memories that keep filling my thoughts. I stay curled in the fetal position as each memory plays out. I can't stop them from coming. I can't make them go away. Nothing can distract me. I can't block the memories, so they continue to come.”
― Ashley Earley, Alone in Paris

“We’re having a sleepover. We’re going to do this all night, and I’m going to cuddle you like a motherfucker after finishing sexing every last orgasm out of you.”
― Helena Hunting, I Flipping Love You

“(The golden goose has died, my prince turned into a frog, the Kingdom is lost, everyone has turned into stone and I am locked in the tower)”
― Nancy B. Brewer, Beyond Sandy Ridge

“You thought I didn’t notice the way you two looked at each other? I may be old but I’m not blind. I remember that
feeling. The spark, the electricity... ”
I had to interject before I got the unabridged version of Anjali Does Mumbai.”
― Nicola Marsh, Busted in Bollywood

“What makes a treasure a treasure is how rare a find it is, when you need it the most.”
― Jodi Picoult, Between the Lines

“Skip your fancy talk, Captain Lord Blackthorn. If I do your bidding, and I’m still discussing that with the Almighty, it will only be to save my arse.” Katie O'Reilly to Captain Lord Jack Blackthorn in "Titanic Rhapsody”
― Jina Bacarr

“If I've got a Dad, and his name is Wormwood Rot, and he's in some heavy metal rock band called Grave Dirt . . . then I'm definitely meeting him!
She stares at me awkwardly, and I'm about to ask again—maybe even insist—when she says, "Honey, why do you think he's on the news? Wormwood, I mean . . . your father? Becca, he's . . . dead.”
― Rusty Fischer, Becca Bloom and the Drumsticks of Doom: A Heavy Metal Love Story

“I imagine I should have told it to you before? I love you, Sejal.I wish for you to become my wife.Recently I’ve also opened a shop in North Dakota and thinking that, just maybe, you love me too.”
― Chayada Welljaipet , Eternal Love

“... never engage to play with a troubled mind or excited emotions. Lucidity of mind is crucial and once once's emotions become engaged in the play all is lost.....”
― Emery Lee, Fortune's Son

“Late twenties, single, female. Do the math.
Flirty flings were fabulous until you hit the big three-O, all downhill
from there. Biological clocks started ticking like time bombs waiting to
detonate, gravity exerted more force on your life than your mom, and
suddenly, the dog-ugliest creep looked like Jake Gyllenhaal.”
― Nicola Marsh, Busted in Bollywood

“Sorry, Sam, but I call 'em like see 'em. When you hire a nanny for the kids, you hire Mrs. Doubtfire. When you hire someone who looks like Sunny...well, then I'm afraid you hired her for yourself.”
― Jennifer Shirk, Sunny Days for Sam

“He was wearing a little bag of “Mojo” around his neck.”
― Nancy B. Brewer, Carolina Rain

“It is a myth that women are the more complicated sex. Men too, have their moods and whims. They too, respond to every gauntlet that is thrown at them, either overtly or covertly.”
― Sandhya Jane, Second Spring

“If this was a romance novel, we'd kiss. That's what always happens--- the gumptious heroine meets her match in the first chapter. A meet-cute. Something memorable. Remarkable. In old Harlequins, we'd be intimate by page one hundred, and a part of me intimately wanted to know what it felt like to unbutton this stranger's shirt. To let go of this plot and just fall headfirst into someone else's.”
― Ashley Poston, A Novel Love Story

“Sometimes Karl, you have to realize your weeknesses and be willing to discuss them with adults.”
― Molly Maguire McGill, Growing Up in Levittown, Again!

“There's a whole universe in her and I would be so lucky to live in it, explore it. Over and over.”
― Bolu Babalola, Honey & Spice

“Eileen?"
My voice came out in a squeak. "Yes?"
"I'm going to kiss you."
"You---yes," I managed, a moment before his hands caught me by the sides of my face, and drew me in for a kiss. And all notion that this was wrong, that he was off-limits, that tomorrow I would leave--- left my mind in an instant. I didn't care. Every reader I'd ever known had wanted nothing more than to fall into the arms of a book boyfriend, some fictional Darcy, a shade of a Byronic hero, all their own.
So I did.”
― Ashley Poston, A Novel Love Story

“And when I snagged his lip again, he groaned and held on to me tighter, breaking apart just long enough to growl, "Gentle, sweetheart," before he kissed me again.
And fuck, I didn't know if it was his main character magic, or the fact that I'd never been called sweetheart with such hunger, but it burned deep in my middle, below where the butterflies had burrowed and lain dead for years. His heroine could have him tomorrow. I wanted to have him now, this second, in my m---”
― Ashley Poston, A Novel Love Story

“Readers still didn't like Honey and the Heartbreak, but I finally understood it, and like the honey Gemma Shah's bees made, the story coated my soul and kept me warm. Not all love happens at first glance--- sometimes, it takes a reread at the exact right (or wrong) time in your life.”
― Ashley Poston, A Novel Love Story

“La fiducia è un dono che uno come me non potrà mai guadagnarsi.”
― Eowyn Wagner, Nome In Codice: H.A.C.K.E.R - L'ombra di Lican