Romance Quotes · Page 261

There are delicious,happy sniffs,and scrumptious snacks to share,hey, you might end up fabulously rich,or even become a huge superstar (one day), sounds…

— Jeremy G

“Oh my God, you're huge." She struggled to get her hands to the ends of the long sleeves. The garment hung to…

— Krystal Shannan

“You were on the other side of the world, but I often woke with the scent of you surrounding me. I ached…

— Colleen Houck

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

“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

“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

“I could still feel the ghost of him hovering in the quiet, dark recess of my heart. It was as if he…

— Colleen Houck

“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

“She hoped he could move on one day and find happiness. He had the luxury to try. She hoped he would succeed.…

— Kiersten Fay

“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

“ "Take your hair down," he croaked, his voice deep even to his own ears. She blinked, and reached up to pull…

— Kristen Casey

There have been articles saying that all women need to read my book. I ask, why not all men? In fact, that…

— Rupi Kaur

“She stared at the faded tile floor before her feet, but knew his every step around her small kitchen. When Martin touched…

— Kim Bongiorno

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

“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

“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

“We had way too much romance to take care of when we were together, and besides that, Father Johnson had explicitly told…

— Ree Drummond

“You are going, Jane?" "I am going, sir." "You are leaving me?" "Yes." "You will not come? You will not be my…

— Charlotte Brontë

My books are love stories at core, really. But I am interested in manifestations of love beyond the traditional romantic notion. In…

— Khaled Hosseini

“There is a magic to intimacy, a world built of sighs and skin that is thicker than brick, stronger than iron. There…

— Jodi Picoult

“His words thrummed in, deep, imprinting themselves on her very deepest, deepest, deep bits. “I believe I am your destiny. You are…

— Cari Silverwood

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

“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

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

“You try to connect emotion to sex, which makes romance that much more special to you. Whenever you get the chance, you…

— sandy Khoury

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

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

“Beneath the conversations and silences and reconnecting intimacy, I tried to reconcile the adult Hardy had become with the boy I had…

— Lisa Kleypas

“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

“Intimacy is a word with eight letters. A word with a sly hiss to it. But then it begins, like love affairs…

— Catherine Hanrahan

“It took me a couple of months to realize I was in love with her. Well, probably not to realize it. More…

— M. Leighton

“He pushed my back against the stall door, kissing me. Edward had tried kissing me, but I'd been so shocked I'd barely…

— Megan Shepherd

“Love is such a small word for what I feel. For the first time in my life, I have a reason to…

— Tamie Dearen

Most beginning writers - and I was the same - are like chefs trying to cook great dishes that they've never tasted…

— Daniel Quinn

“The presence of others who see what we see and hear what we hear assures us of the reality of the world…

— Hannah Arendt

“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

The more familiar two people become, the more the language they speak together departs from that of the ordinary, dictionary-defined discourse. Familiarity…

— Alain de Botton

From this time everything was copulated. Acetic, formic, butyric, margaric, &c., acids, alkaloids, ethers, amides, anilides, all became copulated bodies. So that…

— Auguste Laurent

There is romance, the genuine glinting stuff, in typewriters, and not merely in their development from clumsy giants into agile dwarfs, but…

— J. B. Priestley

I do like the idea of the novel of repressed college students being a contemporary novel of courtship! I guess what I…

— Elif Batuman