“He knows exactly what I need even when I don’t. I’m not sure how he knows me so well, but he does.… — Allie Everhart Copy Share Image
“Intimacy is a word with eight letters. A word with a sly hiss to it. But then it begins, like love affairs… — Catherine Hanrahan Copy Share Image
“It took me a couple of months to realize I was in love with her. Well, probably not to realize it. More… — M. Leighton Copy Share Image
“The Howard Hughes thing hadn’t actually sounded like such a bad deal until about...oh, eight thirty-five this morning. Something about having his… — Heidi Betts Copy Share Image
“Beneath the conversations and silences and reconnecting intimacy, I tried to reconcile the adult Hardy had become with the boy I had… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
“You try to connect emotion to sex, which makes romance that much more special to you. Whenever you get the chance, you… — sandy Khoury Copy Share Image
By love I don't mean indulgence. I do not mean sentimentality. And in this instance, I don't even mean romance. I mean… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I'm interested in dismantling the distinction between masculine and feminine writing both because I think it's a false distinction and, I think,… — Katie Kitamura Copy Share Image
She wasn't, nor ever had been, under the illusion that marriage was a relationship characterized by endless bliss and romance. Throw any… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“But I can say that if you’re a writer who happens to be a woman, you’ll get a book cover that depicts… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
“His words thrummed in, deep, imprinting themselves on her very deepest, deepest, deep bits. “I believe I am your destiny. You are… — Cari Silverwood Copy Share Image
I'm used to writing fairy tales that can be somewhat dark, and the truth is that in fairy tales, romances are always… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
“There is a magic to intimacy, a world built of sighs and skin that is thicker than brick, stronger than iron. There… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“You are going, Jane?" "I am going, sir." "You are leaving me?" "Yes." "You will not come? You will not be my… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
My books are love stories at core, really. But I am interested in manifestations of love beyond the traditional romantic notion. In… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“We had way too much romance to take care of when we were together, and besides that, Father Johnson had explicitly told… — Ree Drummond Copy Share Image
Friendship is also a vital and wonderful part of courtship and marriage. A relationship between a man and a woman that begins… — Marlin K. Jensen Copy Share Image
“I won’t forget it,” I said. “I hope you meet someone perfect one day.” “Ha…yeah, that’s just it. I think I already… — Laura Anderson Kurk Copy Share Image
“I don’t know if I’ve learned anything yet! I did learn how to have a happy home, but I consider myself fortunate… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
“She stared at the faded tile floor before her feet, but knew his every step around her small kitchen. When Martin touched… — Kim Bongiorno Copy Share Image
There have been articles saying that all women need to read my book. I ask, why not all men? In fact, that… — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
“The desperate piercing scream of horror echoed far above the sharpened tops of the trees wrapped in thin obsidian-transparent mist, and I… — Simona Panova Copy Share Image
“I could still feel the ghost of him hovering in the quiet, dark recess of my heart. It was as if he… — Colleen Houck Copy Share Image
“ "Take your hair down," he croaked, his voice deep even to his own ears. She blinked, and reached up to pull… — Kristen Casey Copy Share Image
“All of the things that were shown in early studies to be good for longevity—happy marriages, healthy bodies—are ours to have. We… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“She hoped he could move on one day and find happiness. He had the luxury to try. She hoped he would succeed.… — Kiersten Fay Copy Share Image
“What a day! She had gotten fired, sat in God-knows-what, got rained on, got caught in a traffic jam, been rejected three… — Dara Joy Copy Share Image
“You were on the other side of the world, but I often woke with the scent of you surrounding me. I ached… — Colleen Houck Copy Share Image
What people don't realize is that intimacy has its conventions as well as ordinary social intercourse. There are three cardinal rules --… — W H Auden Copy Share Image
“I already knew what I’d research. I wrote the words ‘Courtly love’ on my notepad in swirly script, then caught Hayden peering… — Tara Eglington Copy Share Image
“If you were to succeed in prolonging the deliriously ecstatic puppy-dog love stage of the first months of courtship through-out the entire… — Courtney Maum Copy Share Image
“Ray looked up and scanned Ilsa from North to South and then from East to West. It only took a moment. Ray… — James Allen Moseley Copy Share Image
Like many another romance, the romance of the family turns sour when the money runs out. If we really cared about families,… — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
Lack of intimacy from the man who she loves will cause a woman to cheat on him. Its not just sex that… — Glen Rambharack Copy Share Image
“I am not sleeping with you." "We could probably manage it, though. Without getting too involved." "No," she said. "But why? I… — Robyn Carr Copy Share Image
I could not sit seriously down to write a serious Romance under any other motive than to save my life, & if… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I once knew a girl who was like a dying rainbow. Her colors were incomparable, her countenance a whirlwind of brilliance. As… — Charity Santiago Copy Share Image
Many luckless people imagine that romance is dead: some, overcivilised, fondly suppose that there never was romance: a poet tells us that… — Archibald Hill Copy Share Image
“I pull his mouth to mine and I kiss him. I kiss him for always having the perfect thing to say. I… — Colleen Hoover Copy Share Image
“He sighed and moved his hands under water, linking with mine. “You are like a drug to me. Dangerous. Addicting. I can’t… — Whitney Barbetti Copy Share Image
