“I don't want nice. I want sparks and fire. I want a romance novel. A Jane Austen movie. A fairy tale.” — Riley of Shine and Shimmer Shari L. Tapscott Copy Share Image
“How could she be sorry about losing her virginity in a romance-novel way on a sunset sail?” — Peggy Webb Copy Share Image
People read romance novel one after another, their searching for the one story better than they could write themselves. — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
What do you do when Mom leaves you alone like this? (Kat) I write romance novels. (Acheron) — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
“There was no question to answer. He would rather die with er than live a single day more without her.” — Jackie Williams Copy Share Image
I loved him, but love isn't enough. All the fairy tales, the romance novels, the soap operas; they're all lies. Love does… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
“When dreams evaporate into the clouds and come back down as tiny rain droplets, are they the same dreams, or something altogether… — Marilyn Grey Copy Share Image
“Anne could do no more; but her heart prophesied some mischance to damp the perfection of her felicity.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“When she got back from taking Cassie to school Fancy knew that she ought to be working on her wilderness romance. She… — Jaclyn Moriarty Copy Share Image
“And a trashy romance novel. I don’t care which one, but the less the guy on the cover is wearing, the better.… — Kristen Ashley Copy Share Image
“I know people think erotica is just a romance novel with rougher sex. It's not. If it's a subgenre of anything, it's… — Tiffany Reisz Copy Share Image
“Skip your fancy talk, Captain Lord Blackthorn. If I do your bidding, and I’m still discussing that with the Almighty, it will… — Jina Bacarr Copy Share Image
He looked as if he'd stepped straight off the cover of one of those romance novels she ordered from Amazon.com so she… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
“She wondered, ever so hopefully, if among these men she would find her holy grail – what she'd been saving herself for… — Cari Silverwood Copy Share Image
The lust and attraction are often a given in a romance novel - I want to dig into the elements of true… — Suzanne Brockmann Copy Share Image
“I didn’t want Ben. Plain and simple. I wasn’t going to be one of those silly girls in a love triangle romance… — Penelope Douglas Copy Share Image
“A good part of the physical attraction [between the hero and heroine of a romance novel] comes to life during these exchanges… — Julie Tetel Andresen Copy Share Image
“Then I stay beside you for as long as we have." He kept stroking my hair. Cats like to be petted. Cait… — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
“I kept driving for a while, then stopped on the side of the road. Shining my brights on the road in front… — Ree Drummond Copy Share Image
“Dialogue in a romance novel serves a larger purpose than simply to provide exposition and demonstrate character. What is said between the… — Linda Barlow and Jayne Ann Krentz Copy Share Image
“The ride to Alicante had been like something out of a dream, or a cheesy romance novel. The two of them astride… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I started out writing romance novels, and that's a side of publishing that's very female oriented. 99.9% of the writers are women,… — Marjorie M. Liu Copy Share Image
Why should I tell you?" he asked, with no small amount of petulance. "If you tell me, I will leave you alone,"… — Rachel Cohn Copy Share Image
Get away from my ex-girlfriend, you moany little whinge-bag.' Caelen took a deep breath, like he was in pain, and stood up.… — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
“I just want you, to be mine, forever. I want a piece of you no one else has ever had, and I… — Ashley Beale Copy Share Image
“I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out of me with steel pipes.” — Patton Oswalt Copy Share Image
“People should know better than to be an ass in front of writers. We immortalize things. Lots of things. And we take… — Michelle M. Pillow Copy Share Image
I have for the first time found what I can truly love- I have found you. You are my sympathy-my better self-my… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“He was tall, dark and handsome, the complete trifecta. His unique grey eyes and his tousled dark brown hair, made him look… — Nicole Gulla Copy Share Image
Other genres are plot-driven, but the entire focus of a romance novel is on the characters and their arcs. — Sylvia Day Copy Share Image
“And you're right- I don't want nice. I want sparks and fire. I want a romance novel. A Jane Austen movie. A… — Shari L. Tapscott Copy Share Image
“My eyes refuse to let him leave, but he stands still holding my hand, lingering for as long as possible.” — Thomas Sweeney Copy Share Image
“Looking at someone else’s relationship for the answers was like reading about a romance novel hero and expecting to find a carbon… — Maya Banks Copy Share Image
“Friendly fire was never friendly, and it was coming. Operation Stand-and-Watch was over. Did that mean Operation Bust-His-Balls was on deck?” — Cristin Harber Copy Share Image
I always wanted to write a book. Not a romance novel. Maybe a crime thriller. Something with action. Maybe that will happen… — Becky Sauerbrunn Copy Share Image
“Cinderella is every little girl's first romance novel, at least where the heroine is awake for most of the story." ~ Kat Young” — Obren Bokich Copy Share Image
“This many pretty girls in the room, all watching you boys like you’re a wedding-reception one-night stand waiting to happen—” — Cristin Harber Copy Share Image
“As we stood there, chest high in water, I felt like I was in the middle of my own romance novel.” — Em Bailey Copy Share Image
“He walked right to her, his long strides eating the space between them and sucking the oxygen in front of her” — Cristin Harber Copy Share Image
“Sometimes Karl, you have to realize your weeknesses and be willing to discuss them with adults.” — Molly Maguire McGill Copy Share Image
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