Romance Quotes

Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets

Romance is finding your fantasy in people who don't have it.

I'm not a romantic. In life I didn't have much experience with romance.

I ought not to doubt the steadiness of your affection. Yet such is the inconsistency of real love, t...

As I walked over the loose fragments of stone, which lay scattered and surveyed the sublimity and gr...

What business had I to think of one that never thought of me?

Give me your skin as sheer as a cobweb, let me open it up and listen in and scoop out the dark.

You have to be a romantic to invest yourself, your money, and your time in cheese.

Slowly, but very deliberately, the brooding edifice of seduction, creaking and incongruous, came int...

Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are ...

Nadya Zelenin and her mother had returned from a performance of Eugene Onegin at the theatre. Going ...

Ivanov: And this whole romance of ours is commonplace and trite: he lost heart, and he lost his way....

And only now, when he was gray-haired, had he fallen in love properly, thoroughly, for the first tim...

This human need for mysticism – surrender to an unknown truth, union – stands at the helm of all rom...

Each moment of the happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.

After their encounter on the approach to Jupiter, there would aways be a secret bond between them---...

Humor was the enemy of desire.

Picnics are very dear to those who are in the first stage of the tender passion.

My mind is like a racing engine, tearing itself to pieces because it is not connected up with the wo...

She was weak and helpless, shaken in mind and nerve. It was to take her at a disadvantage to obtrude...

The moment I saw her, a part of me walked out of my body and wrapped itself around her. And there it...

I cried to think of how lucky we both were to have found each other, since it was clear that we were...

It's terrific, Clare," Henry says, and we stare at each other, and I think, "Don't leave me.

When I am out there, in time, I am inverted, changed into a desperate version of myself. I become a ...

In another corner Nathaniel murmured to Maura, "You must know, Miss O'Connell, I . . . I loved you e...

Why have you been staring at me ever since we met? Because I’m not the Gail Wynand you’d heard about...

I often think that he's the only one of us who's achieved immortality. I don't mean in the sense of ...

. . . none of us are as sophisticated in these matters as you think. You know I always feel, with ev...

You're just the girl of my dreamsBut it seems my dreams never come true

In the Mars-and-Venus-gendered universe, men want power and women want emotional attachment and conn...

Giving generously in romantic relationships, and in all other bonds, means recognizing when the othe...

Time and time again when I talk to individuals about approaching love with will and intentionality, ...

To return to love, to get the love we always wanted but never had, to have the love we want but are ...

Understanding knowledge as an essential element of love is vital because we are bombarded daily with...

How different things might be if, rather than saying "I think I'm in love," we were saying "I've con...

Describing our romantic longings in 'Life preserves,' therapist Harriet Lerner shares that most peop...

Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.

Constitutional democracy, you see, is no romantic notion. It's our defense against ourselves, the on...

My life would be sour grapes and ashes without you

She always says I'm the best friend that she's ever had... how do you hang up on someone who needs y...

I had no time for romance. I turned away from the window, from the wintry sun, crossed through the r...

You'll walk with me out on the wire, cuz baby, I'm just a scared and lonely rider, but I gotta know ...

I knew then that I would devote every minute we had left together to making her happy, to repairing...

If Harrison was unable to see that I had feelings for him (at least five, but sometimes as many as s...

He dropped his voice, so low that Tessa wasn’t sure if what he said next was real or part of the dre...

You could have fooled me. Everytime I called you, Luke said you were sick. I figured you were avoidi...

Simon to die. Jace to live. Jonathon to retune. And you Valentine's daughter, to be the catalist of ...

I love you, Clary," he said without looking at her. He was staring out into the church, at the row o...

And second, keep in mind that you are a weapon. In theory, when you're done with training, you shoul...

His fingers skimmed down her body, over skin and satin, and she shivered, leaning into him, and she ...

The cord pulled taut and she rebounded, flying back up before falling again. As her velocity slowed,...

There is no pretending," Jace said with absolute clarity. "I love you, and I will love you until I d...

And I'm suppose to sit by while you date boys and fall in love with someone else, get married...?" H...

You're my sister," he said finally. "My sister, my blood, my family. I should want to protect you"—h...

She opened her mouth to answer, but he was already kissing her. She had kissed him so many times—sof...

Most of us do things for reasons that are more purely personal. For love, or for hate.

Whatever you are physically, male or female, strong or weak, ill or healthy - all those things matte...

It was so odd what brought out tenderness in people. It was never what you have expected.

Tessa: Are all vampires like that? Cold like that?Charlotte: Many of them have been alive a long tim...

It is as great a thing to love as it is to be loved. Love is not something that can be wasted.

Their beauty had always seemed to him like the beauty of pressed flowers - lovely, but dead.

It's alright to love someone who doesn't love you back, as long as they're worth you loving them. As...

Will: I've never seen anyone get so excited over books before. You'd think they were diamonds.Tessa:...

I cannot explain love. I could not tell you if I loved you the first moment I saw you, or if it was ...

Sometimes he wondered if he did these things just to test himself. To see if the feelings had gone. ...

Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.

The two stand in the fast-thinning throng of victims, but they speak as if they were alone. Eye to e...

In a word, it was impossible for me to separate her, in the past or in the present, from the innermo...

The mental agony I have suffered, during the last two days, wrings from me the avowal to you of a pa...

Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry i...

I knew you would do me good in some way, at some time--I saw it in your eyes when I first beheld you...

Why can she not influence him more, when she is privileged to drawso near to him?” I asked myself. “...

I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, ...

Jane, will you marry me?""Yes sir.""A poor blind man, whom you will have to lead about by the hand?"...

And it is you, spirit--with will and energy, and virtue and purity--that I want, not alone with your...

You are going, Jane?""I am going, sir.""You are leaving me?""Yes.""You will not come? You will not b...

I knew, you would do me good, in some way, at some time;- I saw it in your eyes when I first beheld ...

You, sir, are the most phantom-like of all; you are a mere dream

It is a long way to Ireland, Janet, and I am sorry to send my little friend on such weary travels: b...

~Do you like him much?~I told you I like him a little. Where is the use of caring for him so very mu...

I wait, with some impatience in my pulse, but no doubt in my breast.

Soon," he said in his letter. They said "soon" to each other often, and "soon" gave their plan the w...

THOMAS GuiltyOf mankind. I have perpetrated human nature. My father and mother were acces...

You keep runnin that mouth and I'm goin to take you back there and screw you.

you roll me out flat

Oh, I've no patience with these romances. They're the ruin of all order. It's a thousand pities they...

I gasped and pointed the way. I gave you an adventure, Ed, right in front of you but you never saw i...

Draw a circle, not a heart, around the one you love because a heart can break but a circle goes on f...

No, Mary had no illusions about romance. Falling in love was a pretty name for it, that was all. Jem...

Brigid O'Shaughnessy: “I haven't lived a good life. I've been bad, worse than you could know.” Sam S...

We've got a bond in common, you and I. We are both alone in the world.

This is how life works. Deciding whom to love is not an alien form of decision-making, a romantic in...

Women, in general, are less visually aroused than men, a trait that has nearly cut the market for po...

A cynic by experience, a romantic by inclination and now a hero by necessity.

Hugh and I have been together for so long that in order to arouse extraordinary passion, we need to ...

Your past is my Future.

Intimacy and romance are not synonymous.

To see the years touch ye gives me joy", he whispered, "for it means that ye live.

I thought the force of my wanting must wake ye, surely. And then ye did come. . ." He stopped, looki...

Why?" I shrieked, hitting him again and again, and again, the sound of the blows thudding against hi...