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Romance Quotes


"If I could make you stay, I would,' he shouted. 'If I had to beat you, chain you, starve you-if I could make you stay, I would.' He turned back into the room; the wind blew his hair. He shook his finger at me, grotesquely playful. 'One day, perhaps, you will wish I had."


"Love enters your heart a spark and exists your soul a flame."


"I didn't know I was looking for you, but I was, he whispered."


"I have a free couple of hours,' I told him, walking toward my car, which was parked on the next block. 'There's a very private, very secluded barn in Lookout Hill Park behind the carousel. I could be there in fifteen minutes.' I heard the smile in his voice. 'You want me bad."


"Love knew no bounds, knew no limitations. It looked beyond the unseen realm and reached in for a taste, for a moment of regenerated happiness, and in that moment fate was altered and the destinies of many were changed. Their land, their Northbrook, they discovered, was a very magical place."


"Her lips against his, the sun soaking into their skin, and the sweet, fragrant breezes that wafted through this isolated picnic area was nothing short of perfection."


"The more actively engaged you are in the present moment, the more aware you will become of yourself; your actions and reactions. As you become more aware, you will increase your ability to change what it is you do and how."



"But soon I loved her completely and wished to possess her, own her, absorb her, eat her. I wanted her in my arms and in my bed, I longed she would open her legs to me."



"Dearest Cecilia, You'd be forgiven for thinking me mad, the way I acted this afternoon. The truth is I feel rather light headed and foolish in your presence, Cee, and I don't think I can blame the heat."


"He was determined to save her, to be her hero, to give her a reason why the gods had seen fit to place him inside her visions. Gods, he wanted to rescue her. After all, she had rescued him; she had become his heroine a long time ago, before his death became imminent."


"It wouldn't be fair to Chevy, and it wouldn't be fair to me. The love I had for him was consuming and powerful and raw. I briefly close my eyes as memories of Chevy's hands on my body and his lips on mine cause warmth to curl in my bloodstream...Even when we fought, we never had problems with attraction."


"I cannot quit your love without dying."


"Finally, I laugh. Genuine and normal sounding. And then my date says the best thing that he couldpossibly say: 'It's okay. I haven't been on one of these [dates] in a while either.My smile triples in size.Josh grins. 'Just give me your hand.'W"what?'Your hand, he repeats. 'Give it to me.I extend my shaking right hand. And " in a moment that is a hundred dreams come true " JoshuaWasserstein laces his fingers through mine. A staggering shock of energy shoots straight into myveins. Straight into my heart.'There, he says. 'I've been waiting a long time to do that."


"Anyone can love a rose, but only a saint can love its thorns."


"I have named you queen.There are taller than you, taller.There are purer than you, purer.There are lovelier than you, lovelier.But you are the queen.When you go through the streetsNo one recognizes you.No one sees your crystal crown, no one looksAt the carpet of red goldThat you tread as you pass,The nonexistent carpet.And when you appearAll the rivers soundIn my body, bellsShake the sky,And a hymn fills the world.Only you and I,Only you and I, my love,Listen to it."


"I have nothing against romance. I believe that we must hold on to the right to dream and to be romantic. But an Indian village is not something that I would romanticize that easily."



"Surely the Cupid serving him was lefthanded, with a weak chin and no imagination."


"Those eyes. I felt like they pierced right through me; that if I didn't break away now, they would peel me open to see what lay beneath. Deep within, the dragon stirred, growling. She didn't like this human, I realized. Maybe he scared her, or the intensity of his gaze reminded her of a predator. Or maybe she felt that, if I stared at him much longer, I would lose myself in those stormy eyes and forget all about a certain golden-eyed rogue, waiting for me in the darkness."


"I love you as river loves the ocean."


"Oh Jake," Brett said, "We could have had such a damned good time together."Ahead was a mounted policeman in khaki directing traffic. He raised his baton. The car slowed suddenly, pressing Brett against me.Yes," I said. "Isn't it pretty to think so?"


"Heart turned to me, his face thoughtful. "Yesterday morning. Yes, that means that Daphne hadn't been home for two days before that. He smiled at me. "You were supposed to be the Alpha's eye candy.Adam laughed."What? I asked him. "You don't think I'd be good eye candy? I looked down at my overalls and grease-stained hands. I'd torn another nail to the quick."Honey is eye candy, said Ben apologetically. "You're . . . just you."Mine, said Adam, edging between Heart and me. "Mine is what she is.""


"My good qualities are under your protection, and you are to exaggerate them as much as possible; and, in return, it belongs to me to find occasion for teasing and quarreling with you as often as may be..."


"Surprises are one of the secrets of a good relationship. Find someone who, out of the blue, will grab you, and a blanket, take you to a secluded spot and canoodle as the sun rises..."


"It's just that when you're standing beside an open window at twilight, you can say more toeach other than in bright sunshine. It's also easier to whisper your feelings than toshout them from the rooftops."


"They are the humans who are intelligent enough to have insight of every single molecular underpinning of the warmth of love, and yet not let that factual knowledge ruin the romance in a relationship."


"Every touch of you on my skin has burnt and etched your name on my soul. Whenever I close my eyes and try to feel myself, all I can hear is constant echoes of your name in my head, and all I can feel is the constant longing for the darkness."


"It had been agreed between them that lighted candles at wayside inns, in strange countries amid mountain scenery, gave the evening meal a peculiar poetry."


"How bad is it? she asked. 'Not bad. 'You always wince when it's not bad. Hawk chuckled. Theo scowled at him. 'It's a little overly sensitive because I broke it six months ago. 'I guess grace doesn't come with the royal package, she teased. 'My royal package is better than anyone else's. Trust me."


"It was a mating dance only slightly more dignified than presenting like a mandrill, but endearing in its own fashion."


"I love himnot because he's handsomebut because he's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same."



"And he leans in, so carefully. Breathing and not breathing and hearts beating between us and he's so close, he's so close and I can't feel my legs anymore. I can't feel my fingers or the cold or the emptiness of this room because all I feel is him, everywhere, filling everything and he whispers"Please."He says, "Please don't shoot me for this."


"You are like nobody since I love you."
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