“I’ve never been able to stand up for myself while growing up, but I will stand up for you against anyone who… — Daniele Lanzarotta Copy Share Image
There's a tendency among some male writers to make the women in their stories weak and needing of rescue so that their… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
“My mind is like a sea You will only drown, If you think you can swim There are things that devours me,… — J. Limbu Copy Share Image
“Maddie swallowed hard and tried to channel… which actress? Damn, she couldn’t think of an actress to save her life! She was… — Jill Shalvis Copy Share Image
“Random line from BURNING DARKNESS: Fonda Raine stepped out of the back end of a month in hell a hardened warrior, ready… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I think poverty is not the worst thing in the world, blindness is, because blind people cannot see your beauty.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
There is nothing I can't do writing in Fantasy. I can have romance, I can have mystery, I can have drama, I… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“Sweet, deep, racy talk late at night with a man you're comfortable with and wildly attracted to is like having a living,… — Tamela Miles Copy Share Image
Our phones do play to our natural nervousness about being vulnerable to each other, but that doesn't mean that we can't we… — Judy Woodruff Copy Share Image
Games are the way we keep romance alive. They're based in human hardwiring. Playing hard-to-get or leaving a little to the imagination… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
It's such a lovely feeling to be in love, to marry the person you love and finally to be with that person.… — Riteish Deshmukh Copy Share Image
“I want you in every way possible and in ways you’ve probably never even imagined. Your saving grace is I don’t sleep… — Zoe Forward Copy Share Image
“I think people write to remember: (Whether) to bring back a mem'ry to life, (Or for their future selves a reminder, Once… — Porcupine Strongwill Copy Share Image
“Their daughter scrunched up her hands and legs, waving them wildly in the air. He opened his palm, allowing the babe to… — Deeanne Gist Copy Share Image
“There we were, filled with pure animal need, as he pinned me to the wooden table, and cruelly whipped my naked bottom;… — Fiona Thrust Copy Share Image
The one thing about being a dude and writing from a female perspective is that the baseline is, you suck. The baseline… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
“Tell me, Lothaire, I want to know. Convince me why I should love you.” “Because any other female would!” — Kresley Cole Copy Share Image
I think our lack of intimacy with the land has initiated a lack of intimacy with each other. What we perceive as… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“The desire to touch her, to kiss her would end up with her walking away and him hurting again. So why the… — Leah Braemel Copy Share Image
“If I told you I love you now How many seconds would it take How long would you allow All that I… — Penny Reid Copy Share Image
“I’d skipped the crush kiddie pool and jumped right into the deep, shark-infested ocean of emotions. And, if you’ll forgive the dramatic… — Kody Keplinger Copy Share Image
I love the romance of Paris. I love Angelina [tearoom and pastry shop]. I always get a Mont-blanc [pastry] there. — Jason Wu Copy Share Image
“I am insatiable - aim to sate me but never dull my flames of desire that are fuelled by the existence of… — Truth Devour Copy Share Image
“It was everything I hoped it would be. I want you to know I would have waited another sixteen years to be… — Jessica Ingro Copy Share Image
The thing that's so at the heart of Bridgerton' is intimacy and identity and sexuality - and so of course that's something… — Jonathan Bailey Copy Share Image
My favorite lesbian romance of all time is the 1999 movie 'But I'm a Cheerleader,' starring Natasha Lyonne and Clea DuVall. RuPaul… — Camille Perri Copy Share Image
“Viola to Duke Orsino: 'I'll do my best To woo your lady.' [Aside.] 'Yet, a barful strife! Whoe'er I woo, myself would… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“You're not going to be another name on my list of guys for the week. Okay?' (...) 'Then let me try,' he… — Krista Ritchie Copy Share Image
“Every night she wrote in that ledger. Every day he saw more signs that the ladies did not consider her one of… — Erin Beaty Copy Share Image
“I thought then that you were the bravest girl I’d ever met, and nothing that’s happened since has changed my mind.” — Zoë Marriott Copy Share Image
I feel the romance should never go out of any marriage. Even after one has had kids etc. Love never ends, na? — Riteish Deshmukh Copy Share Image
“The moment I saw her, a part of me walked out of my body and wrapped itself around her. And there it… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“The fuse is lit. You can run all you want to but you leave a trail of gunpowder in your wake. There’s… — Colleen Houck Copy Share Image
“I didn’t want to cry in front of you.” He wiped away the tears with the pad of his thumb. “I want… — Robyn Carr Copy Share Image
“He was in search of a story, nothing more. He shouldn't be thinking about her bedroom at all. But, in a matter… — Aria Kane Copy Share Image
I like old-fashioned romance, when the two people sleep in separate beds but still hold hands all night. Their hands rest on… — Kaley Cuoco Copy Share Image
What's the difference between the music of my generation and today s. Our songs were about Love and Romance, today's music is… — David A Vigilanti Copy Share Image
On 'The Bachelor' and 'The Bachelorette,' you are having a relationship - even though it's short and on camera - and with… — Andi Dorfman Copy Share Image
“YA heroines can have romances that are subplots: can have goals other than getting/keeping a man: can put their lovers second. JUST… — Celine Kiernan Copy Share Image
We commonly confuse closeness with sameness and view intimacy as the merging of two separate I's into one worldview. — Harriet Lerner Copy Share Image