“I don't usually let people look at this." "Why not?" Jace looked tousled, as if he'd been asleep himself. "You're a pretty… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Dear Mia, What can I say? I don't know all that much about romance novels, but I think you must be the… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
“I think you still love me,’ he says, ‘even though you don’t want to.’ I glare at him, fury battling my instincts.… — Mila Gray Copy Share Image
“Look, Clara,” I say enthusiastically and raise my hand to show my lover the beautiful butterfly couple, but then I realize that… — Jutta Swietlinski Copy Share Image
She understood now why her friend Elizabeth, with her near-genius, analytical mind gave wide berth to murder mysteries, psychological thrillers, and horror… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
Love is rather impotent and pitiful: My father must have told me a million times how much he loved me, but that… — Elizabeth Wurtzel 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
“This is better than a romance novel." P.J. said with a wistful sigh. "You read that stuff?" Cole demanded. "Why the hell… — Maya Banks Copy Share Image
“American girls shivered and quivered at the Aussie accent whispered against their bodies.” — Cristin Harber Copy Share Image
“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
“The fact that she had more clothes to sleep in than to go out in said a lot about her” — Jill Shalvis 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
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
If everybody lived as I do, surely the writing of romance novels would never have come into being. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
A romance novel should leave readers joyous. My books all have happy endings. — Judith McNaught Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels. — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
“Mags, I don’t know how many more times I will have to say this, but here it goes. You’re amazing, you deserve… — Kristen Hope Mazzola Copy Share Image
“I thought you were more like GI Joe, but now that I know about the cape, you sound more like Superman." Mia… — Cristin Harber Copy Share Image
“In the back of his mind, he had always wondered why — why they harbored such resentment for him. Now he had the answer,… — Tracy Winegar 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
“stop running. If this had been a romance novel, this would be the end, the happily ever after, where the reader just… — Alicia Hunter Pace 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
My mom wasn't, like, she was reading all these historical romance novels the majority of the time. She read a feminist book… — Kathleen Hanna 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
Readers understand that the books celebrate female power. In the romance novel, the woman always wins. With courage, intelligence and gentleness she… — Jayne Ann Krentz Copy Share Image
“We’re taking it a hundred miles north. That’s a hundred miles closer to where you are. I’ve decided units and measurements of… — Penny Reid 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
One of the less vaunted joys of Austen is that she is one of the greatest writers in the English language who… — Alessandra Stanley Copy Share Image
“You know, they never talk about this part of owning a sword in books.” “Yeah, and girls don’t menstruate in books either.”… — Elizabeth A. Reeves Copy Share Image
“We walk into each other and discover that there's something about our edges that fit. Her points fit into my cracks and… — John David California Copy Share Image
“When a woman reads a romance novel, she is putting her own pleasure first. That small act of rebellion is perceived as… — Maya Rodale Copy Share Image
“Romance novels can be broken down into two broad categories: historical romances, which utilize a wide variety of historical backdrops, and contemporary… — Cathie Linz Copy Share Image
Suddenly his expression turned to alarm. He sprinted toward us. For a moment I had an absurd vision of myself on the… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“Heroes are men who admit to being difficult to live with, who demand extremely high standards in every aspect of their lives,… — Robyn Donald 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
“Be careful, if I didn't know better, I would think you're sounding jealous." "Good thing you know better.” — Jalpa Williby Copy Share Image
