Friends-to-lovers-romance Quote by Sophie Barnes

“He had known in times of the greatest misery or danger that his dreams of home, in which all things seemed beautiful, were in…

— Mark Helprin

“At the time he had closed in upon himself, denying her a place of entry. She was tenacious, aggressive as a lover, had tried…

— Aminatta Forna

“He was accustomed to women wanting him. What shocked him was the simple fact that he wanted her. Not hot, energetic sex. Not a…

— Anne Stuart

“And she began the oft-told tale of a lady of imperial descent who could find no husband in the narrow circle where her pride…

— E.M. Forster

“No one had asked about his life, the years aboard ship. As a child she had been fascinated by the way he would come…

— Lakambini A. Sitoy

“And what was to become of what he had taken from her? He had dashed her heart to the ground and danced on it…

— V.S. Carnes

“She could not tell him that she protested because she did not believe he loved her enough to become his wife. It was no…

— Noriko Ogiwara

“Most of all she wanted him to know how she loved him, now that the fact was upsetting everything, now that she was walking…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“for she could never long endure any conversation of which she was not the chief subject. But she smiled when she spoke, consciously deepening…

— Margaret Mitchell

“She had always assumed that her life would end inside the war, that the war itself would be her eternal present, as it was…

— Tatjana Soli

“He had a feeling that somewhere in the course of her life something had happened to her, something terrible which in the end had…

— Louis Bromfield

“She longed to know what at the moment was passing in his mind--in what manner he thought of her, and whether, in defiance of…

— Jane Austen