When I was little, my grandma used to get romance novels, and she would get hundreds of these, and she'd read a… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Love isn't just a feeling. Love is a choice too. And you may not be able to help your feelings, but you… — Holly Bourne Copy Share Image
“That’s what came from having romance in your soul, I suppose. You believed in things like love at first sight and perfect… — Dorothy Koomson Copy Share Image
Be it whim or emergency, the modern laboratory is equally at the service of romance, equally ready to gratify mankind with a… — Richard Le Gallienne Copy Share Image
It's bullshit to think of friendship and romance as being different. They're not. They're just variations of the same love. Variations of… — Rachel Cohn Copy Share Image
“She was the real treasure, more precious than sapphires, diamonds and gold. At the core of his ancient, cynical heart, he was… — Thea Harrison Copy Share Image
“What the hell was going on, why did I care, and why, oh why, did I not carry a pocket rocket in… — Lisa Sanchez Copy Share Image
“I’m glad that you decided against the walk.” His voice had deepened and taken a rougher edge to it – almost a… — Carrie Ann Ryan Copy Share Image
“This doesn’t mean anything,” Haley whispers as she reaches up and pulls at the Velcro of my glove. “Yes, it does.” I… — Katie McGarry Copy Share Image
I'm a fiction writer, and I do write essays, but I am not a poet. And I absolutely reject the phrase 'woman… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
“I didn't mean to upset you, Ms. Hamilton," his gaze shifted back to her. "It's a beautiful sight and I thought you'd… — Debra Holland Copy Share Image
“—Este lugar es bellísimo. —Estaba admirada ante tan hermoso lugar, me sentía extasiada, lo que me hizo dejar escapar un suspiro. —Sabía… — Itxa Bustillo Copy Share Image
“Kadyn groaned. “I cannot believe this. I’m on lockdown over here, Patrick. I can’t leave.” “I know,” Patrick responded. “I’ve seen the… — K.S. Ruff Copy Share Image
Roses! I swear you men have all your romance from the same worn book. Flowers are a good thing, a sweet thing… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“But I stayed up thinking about how I've been lying to him, no less than I lie to myself in my pre-sleep… — Zack Love Copy Share Image
“Father and the child were no longer speaking, but they sat together in silence. The child was at his feet, and he… — Carmen Dominique Taxer Copy Share Image
Fear is the great enemy of intimacy. Fear makes us run away from each other or cling to each other but does… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
I don't fully understand my wife's emotions - and I'm supposed to write an excellent female character and unravel the secret of… — Evan Goldberg Copy Share Image
We all face difficulties of our own, and how comforting it is to immerse yourself in a book - my book, any… — Debbie Macomber Copy Share Image
We're lonely, but we're afraid of intimacy. And so from social networks to sociable robots, we're designing technologies that will give us… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Oh, I've no patience with these romances. They're the ruin of all order. It's a thousand pities they ever happened” — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, reality is the illusion, and the truth only visible where our eyes can’t see.” - Lady Lalaigne” — Jeanine Henning Copy Share Image
There are people who say they want to write novels. They think, 'I'll learn my craft on the romance novel.' If you… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
When I win your heart, and I will win it. It won't be because of any trickery. It will be because you… — Once Upon A Time Copy Share Image
“To quote French author François Mauriac, ‘Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who your are' is true enough, but… — Sarah Wendell Copy Share Image
“Don't be afraid to live the life you've been given. Some of us don't t have the chance . . . . don't waste yours.” — Sarah Monzon Copy Share Image
“To love someone with all of your heart requires reaching them where they are with the only words they can understand.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“His warmth, which seemed to presume upon some happy old intimacy we did not share, had thrown me into awkwardness.” — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“I don't want to be somebody's crush. If somebody likes me, I want them to like the real me, not what they… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
“She must have been a nurse. She looked a few years older than me. Pretty. Naturally pretty, the type that's still attractive,… — Ruta Sepetys Copy Share Image
“If I die, I want to die for something I believe in and take my word for it, there isn’t much out… — Joni Hahn Copy Share Image
“Gwyneth. He passed her name through his thoughts a hundred times a day. He wanted to say her name, whisper it into… — Vonda Sinclair Copy Share Image
One of the reasons people like romances is that they're artificially shaped to give a pattern and meaning. It's not as messy… — Melissa Pritchard Copy Share Image
Movies are great, but the real romance happens right here somewhere as real close-up. Either you're the one erasing or you're the… — Jim Carrey Copy Share Image
When you split from someone, it doesn't have to mean that you don't love them anymore, you realize that the period of… — Marianne Faithfull Copy Share Image
“My mom told me once that Wyatt loved her the way a boy will love his mother, but I loved her the… — Laura Anderson Kurk Copy Share Image
“Hearing my brother’s words coming out of Henry, this stranger in a strange town, made me feel wild with all the loss—wild… — Laura Anderson Kurk Copy Share Image
“Oh, darling, that’s what love is. It’s some power greater than you and me, that draws us to one special person.” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“He’d never been shy, but he’d always been a little uncertain around girls. He just couldn’t believe they liked him.” — Robyn Carr Copy Share Image
“The fire that had been raging inside her ever since she met him, ever since she left him, was now having gasoline… — T.A. Grey Copy Share Image
