Romantic Comedy Quotes

“Rejection is an opportunity for your selection.”
― Bernard Branson

“I simply regard romantic comedies as a subgenre of sci-fi, in which the world created therein has different rules than my regular human world.”
― Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

“If I looked like him,” Tara said. “I’d want to have sex with myself. All the time.”
― Jill Shalvis, Simply Irresistible

“Some stories have to be written because no one would believe the absurdity of it all.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Hal yang terpenting dalam cinta adalah persahabatan. Dan hal yang terpenting dalam persahabatan adalah cinta ...”
― Winna Efendi, Ai

“Is there anything else you need from me?" Ranger asked.

"Not right now."

"There will come a time," Ranger said. "Let me know when." And he disconnected.

I opened the freezer and stuck my head in to cool off. If there'd been any more innuendo in that conversation, I could have fried an egg on my forehead.”
― Janet Evanovich

“Sorry,” he said. “Let me drop the belt-"
“No.” She held on when he would have pulled away. “Don’t. I like it.”
Again, he lifted her face, and he smiled. “The tool belt turns you on.”
“No.” She closed her eyes and thunked her forehead to his chest. “Little bit.”
― Jill Shalvis, Simply Irresistible

“I am bigger than the box I'm in.”
― Rachel Cohn

“Love is a two-way street constantly under construction.”
― Carroll Bryant

“Life Is Too Short--So Kiss Slowly,
Laugh Insanely, Love Truly,
And Live With Passion.”
― Andy Vogt

“Often you don’t know whether you’re the hero of a romantic comedy or the villain on a Lifetime special until the restraining order arrives.”
― Tim Kreider, We Learn Nothing

“Who’s there?”
“The scratcher of your itch,” he said.
She opened the door a crack and stuck her nose out. “Was that supposed to be romantic?”
― Jill Shalvis, Instant Attraction

“Light flashed in her eyes. In fact, it clung to her—flaring around her skin, her hair, her whole body. It was a trick of the eyes, his mind, when adrenaline hit his system. But she glowed. Vivid. Alive. And for a moment, he’d have given anything to be like her.”
― J. Rose Black, Losing My Breath

“She didn’t sound overjoyed. She didn’t sound even slightly joyed.”
― Sarah Mayberry, Can't Get Enough

“You’ll never get anywhere by staying in your comfort zone!!”
― R.S. Grey, The Allure of Julian Lefray

“I want you to know, chickens aren’t sexy. Not to me.”
This was met with silence.
“Are you there?” She was slurring her words now, which was embarrassing, so she took a deep breath. “Cam? Can you hear me?”
“Yes, chickens aren’t sexy. Uh…I don’t think they’re meant to be.”
― Jill Shalvis, Instant Attraction

“He couldn’t just come right out with it, could he? No, that would scare her off. He had to be subtle, build up to it. Explain himself.
“I love you.”
Of course, straight to the point was also an effective strategy.”
― Sarah Mayberry, Can't Get Enough

“How my heart missed beating like this. For him. Only for him.”
― Ella Maise, The Hardest Fall

“Sounds like you kids have some talking to do. I'll be eavesdropping from the kitchen.”
― Jill Shalvis, Heating Up The Holidays

“Every girl should have at least one wild fling on her resumé.”
― Donna Cummings, Summer Lovin'

“It was Valentine's Day and I had spent the day in bed with my life partner, Ketel One. The two of us watched a romance movie marathon on TBS Superstation that made me wonder how people who write romantic comedies can sleep at night.

At some point during almost every romantic comedy, the female lead suddenly trips and falls, stumbling helplessly over something ridiculous like a leaf, and then some Matthew McConaughey type either whips around the corner just in the nick of time to save her or is clumsily pulled down along with her. That event predictably leads to the magical moment of their first kiss. Please. I fall all-the-time. You know who comes and gets me? The bouncer.

Then, within the two hour time frame of the movie, the couple meet, fall in love, fall out of love, break up, and then just before the end of the movie, they happen to bump into each other by "coincidence" somewhere absolutely absurd, like by the river. This never happens in real life. The last time I bumped into an ex-boyfriend was at three o'clock in the morning at Rite Aid. I was ringing up Gas-X and corn removers.”
― Chelsea Handler, My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands

“And you’re overthinking things, Charming.  Do the math.  Naked, interested man, check.  Wet, willing woman, double check.  Now insert part A into slot B and we can move on to the engineering portion of our quiz today.”
― Jane Cousins, To Fight A Fate

“Bila hidup ini memang pertarungan, kita baru tahu siapa yang menang dan kalah di akhir kehidupan. Selama kita masih bernapas, masih ada kesempatan untuk menang.”
― Francisca Todi, Mafia Espresso

“Some people just don’t find their Prince Charming straight away, they have to search for him.”
― Charlotte Fallowfield, Until We Collide

“He's like a God. You worship the gods, but you don't go out with them. You only like guys like that from a distance.”
― cynthia hand

“Just leave me alone, I want to be alone,” she said when Jack tried to open the car door. She hit the lock, and wound the window up. Since the roof was down, it was a fairly pointless exercise.”
― Sarah Mayberry, Can't Get Enough

“Aku tidak percaya akan cinta pada pandangan pertama. Tapi harus kuakui, aku menyukai apa yang kulihat pada pandangan pertama.”
― Francisca Todi, Mafia Espresso

“There was a group of fans who wanted autographs, and several women who managed to write their phone numbers on Wade's hand before he pulled free.
Sam sent him an arched brow, but he just shrugged. He got numbers written on him a lot; he'd never figured out how to stop that from happening.”
― Jill Shalvis, Slow Heat

“Excuse me, your attention please.”
He waited until the whole floor had stopped what it was doing and turned to face him. For a split second his impulse control kicked in, but by then his mouth was fully engaged.
“For the record, Claire Marsden and I are not having sex.”
― Sarah Mayberry, Can't Get Enough

“You know," Kavita begins, "I think I can pick out my own furniture. I am an artist after all. I do have some taste."
"No you don't." Nick plainly states. "No man has taste. Besides, I didn't pick it out, she did. Wives are good for things like that.”
― Carroll Bryant, Last Flight Out