- “One glance and I knew exactly who and what he was. The classic alpha male, the kind who had spurred evolution forward about five million years ago by nailing every female in sight. They charmed, seduced, and behaved like bastards, and yet women were biologically incapable of resisting their magic DNA.” ― Lisa Kleypas, Smooth Talking Stranger
- “Lily, the next time you tell me you don’t know what to do with family. Because you know exactly. It’s about loyalty and kindness and unconditional love, and you are more than capable of all that.” ― Jill Shalvis
- “(Kiss) It’s not a sin; It’s nature’s ceremony of love’s expression.” ― Jazalyn, Loving with the Senses
- “Time will make it worse! You’re…the other half of his soul. He’s never going to get over you. And no matter how much you hope that you will… you’ll never get over him. You’re going to wake up one day and realize what you’ve done, and you’re going to regret the time you wasted apart from him for the rest of your life.” ― Jamie McGuire, Providence
- “WEST SALEM ~ October 2011A sudden vision, fraught with malevolence and darkness, obscured her sight. The face of a menacing figure turned from the shadows of his grisly handiwork and stared at Sorcha.Her muscles tensed. By the Goddess, could he see her?Please! No!She wanted to scream, to run, but the vision ensnared her into the horrific moment like a fly in a spider’s web.” ― Cherie De Sues
- “Miss Masters was not content with threatening to hire away his staff, oh no. First, she had to perfume it.” ― Meredith Duran, Written on Your Skin
- “Con el tiempo uno se acostumbra a todo.” ― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
- “He rolled his eyes. “Fiction lies for the truth.” ― Kristine Grayson, Wickedly Charming
- “In case you haven’t noticed, they’re moving a lot faster. I don’t know about the laws of physics on your planet, but where I come from an object moving at subclass speed can’t catch up to one running at starclass. But if you know something about turbines, thrusters and engines, quantum or classical physics that I’ve somehow missed, then please enlighten me.- Caillen Dagan to Desideria Denarii” ― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Born of Shadows
- “What is more natural than that a solidity, a complicity, a bond should be established between Reader and Reader, thanks to the book? You can leave the bookshop content, you, a man who thought that the period where you could still expect something from life had ended. You are bearing with you two different expectations, and both promise days of pleasant hopes; the expectation contained in the book – of a reading experience you are impatient to resume – and the expectation contained in that telephone number – of hearing again the vibrations, a times treble and at times smoldering, of that voice, when it will answer your first phone call in a while, in fact tomorrow, with the fragile pretext of the book, to ask her if she likes it or not, to tell her how many pages you have read or not read, to suggest to her that you meet again…” ― Italo Calvino, If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler
- “The cord pulled taut and she rebounded, flying back up before falling again. As her velocity slowed, she opened her eyes and found herself dangling at the end of the cord, about five feet above Jace. He was grinning. “Nice,” he said. “As graceful as a falling snowflake.””Was I screaming?” She asked, genuinely curious. “You know, on the way down.”He nodded. “Thankfully no one’s home, or they would have assumed I was murdering you.””Ha. You can’t even reach me.” She kicked out a leg and spun lazily in midair. Jace’s eyes glinted. “Want to bet?”Clary knew that expression. “No,” she said quickly. “Whatever you’re going to do-“But he’d already done it. When Jace moved fast, his individual movements were almost invisible. She saw his hand go to his belt, and then something flashed in the air. She heard the sound of parting fabric as the cord above her head was sheared through. Released, she fell freely, too surprised to scream- directly into Jace’s arms. The force knocked him backward, and they sprawled together onto one of the padded floor mats, Clary on top of him. He grinned up at her.”Now,” he said, “that was much better. You didn’t scream at all.””I didn’t get the chance.” She was breathless, and not just from the impact of the fall. Being sprawled on top of Jace, feeling his body against hers, made her hands shake and her heart beat faster.” ― Cassandra Clare, City of Glass
- “Love is a wild fire that cannot be contained by any mere element known to man.” ― Cristina Marrero, The Unsung Love Story
- “Just like sea never dries, so shall my abundant love for you never dry.May our love, union and lifestyle be one worthy of being emulated, let it be a story worth telling to inspire others.(Dedicated to Josephine Uche Okeke).” ― Vincent Okeke
- “Wear that perfume you kept hidden for months. Listen to that track you have been waiting to listen to on a beautiful evening with that someone special. Take that long soothing walk on the beach that you always imagined you would, while holding their hand. Live my sweetheart, And live as if you are the romance that you were always trying to find in them. Live because that has always been there inside. Waiting to be seen, waiting to be felt and experienced in the most wonderous of ways.” ― Bushra Zainab
- “Would you guys choose to walk away from possibly the most incredible encounter of your lifetime just because you had to let it go sooner then you wanted? Just because you knew that it would never be?” ― Holly Hood, Perfectly Hopeless
- “Blake took a small roll from the tray on the table, then put it back in favor of a larger one. And maybe a little butter. It certainly couldn’t hurt. And jam…no, he drew the line at jam. She was a spy, after all.” ― Julia Quinn, To Catch an Heiress
- “She realised she was whimpering. Sir held her closer, his hard grip reassuring. This wasn’t a dream; he really was here.” ― Cherise Sinclair, Breaking Free
- “I wanted to pull away, remind him that I was a big girl, a highly trained operative, a spy – that I’d been training for this mission my entire life, and I wasn’t going to be left on the sidelines. But in the dim space with Zach pressed tightly against me, only one thought came to mind. I kissed him – longer and deeper than I ever had before. The school was not watching us this time. There was nothing playful in the tone. We were just two people kissing as if for the first time, as if it might be the last. And then I broke away. “So,” I asked, as if I got kissed like that all the time (which, believe me, I don’t), “where is it you’re taking me again?” “The tombs.” ― Ally Carter
- “Well, Jenny thought, he certainly likes to cuddle.” ― Katie Allen, Breaking the Silence
- “She accepted it uncertainly. “This will help?” Without waiting for an answer, with that unsettling trust of hers, she popped open the lid and dug in her finger, smearing the slick substance on and around her mouth. Going outside of the lines, as he deduced she did with most everything in her life. When she was done, she looked absolutely ridiculous.Caine barely resisted smiling at her. “It will help immensely.” ― V.S. Carnes
- “When our focus is on seeking, perfecting, or clinging to romance, the charge is often generated by instability, rather than by an authentic connection with another person.” ― Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
- “We stood there, looking at each other, saying nothing. But it was the kind of nothing that meant everything. In his eyes, there was no trace of what had happened between us earlier and I could feel something inside me break.So that was that. We were finally, finally over.I looked at him, and I felt so sad, because this thought occurred to me: ‘I will never look at you the same way again. I’ll never be that girl again. The girl who comes running back every time you push her away, the girl who loves you anyway.’I couldn’t even be mad at him, because this was who he was. This was who he’dalways been. He’d never lied about that. He gave and then he took away. I felt it in the pit of my stomach, the familiar ache, that lost, regretful feeling only he could give me. I never wanted to feel it again. Never, ever.Maybe this was why I came, so I could really know. So I could say good-bye.I looked at him, and I thought, ‘If I was very brave or very honest, I would tell him.’I would say it, so he would know it and I would know it, and I could never take it back. But I wasn’t that brave or honest, so all I did was look at him. And I think he knew anyway.’I release you. I evict you from my heart. Because if I don’t do it now, I never will.’I was the one to look away first.” ― Jenny Han, It’s Not Summer Without You
- “You always hear people talk about how there are moments in your life when you just know that things will never be the same. I always thought that was all horseshit. But here, now, with the feeling of her soft, incredible lips moving with mine, I know that it happens.” ― Stephanie Campbell, Grounding Quinn
- “Certein bodies… become luminous when heated. Their luminosity disappears after some time, but the capacity of becoming luminous afresh through heat is restored to them by the action of a spark, and also by the action of radium.” ― Marie Curie
- “Thank god he’s holding me because if he weren’t, I’d float away.” ― Jade Goodmore
- “I mean, that star over there is blinking at me madly now, but for how long? An hour or two, or for the next million years? And how long will we sit here like this? Just another moment, or the rest of our lives? You know which one I’d prefer…” ― Lucy Christopher, Stolen: A Letter to My Captor
- “I feel a blood moon rising” Neesa” ― C.T. Todd
- “Maybe he thinks he can rescue me? No one is that stupid. ” ― Kim Harrison, The Outlaw Demon Wails
- “I’ve sequenced the questions for maximum speed of elimination,’ I explained. ‘I believe I can eliminate most women in less than forty seconds. Then you can choose the topic of discussion for the remaining time.’ ‘But then it won’t matter,’ said Frances. ‘I’ll have been eliminated.’ ‘Only as a potential partner. We may still be able to have an interesting discussion.’ ‘But I’ll have been eliminated.’ I nodded. ‘Do you smoke?’ ‘Occasionally,’ she said. I put the questionnaire away. ‘Excellent.’ I was pleased that my question sequencing was working so well. We could have wasted time talking about ice-cream flavours and make-up only to find that she smoked. Needless to say, smoking was not negotiable. ‘No more questions. What would you like to discuss?” ― Graeme Simsion, The Rosie Project
- “I must be besotted,” he said evenly. “I have the imbecilic idea that you’re the prettiest girl I’ve ever seen. Except for your coiffure,” he added, with a disgusted glance at the coils and plumes and pearls. “That is ghastly.”She scowled. “Your romantic effusions leave me breathless.” ― Loretta Chase, Lord of Scoundrels