Romance Quotes - Page 17

• Here I am, ninety years old and ready for the cooling board, using a brand new Macintosh computer, and there you sit, twenty-two and gorgeous, fresh as a new peach, yet scrawling on a yellow legal pad like an old maid in a Victorian romance.

  Stephen King

  Years, Here I Am, Two

  Stephen King (2005). “The Colorado Kid”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• True love is not so much a matter of romance as it is a matter of anxious concern for the well-being of one's companion.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Love, Marriage, Matter

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• And he took her in his arms and kissed her under the sunlit sky, and he cared not that they stood high upon the walls in the sight of many.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Love, Crush, Sexy

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, p.944, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I could not sit seriously down to write a serious Romance under any other motive than to save my life, & if it were indispensable for me to keep it up & never relax into laughing at myself or other people, I am sure I should be hung before I had finished the first chapter. No - I must keep my own style & go on in my own way; and though I may never succeed again in that, I am convinced that I should totally fail in any other.

  Jane Austen

  Writing, People, Laughing

  Jane Austen, Penelope Hughes-Hallett (1991). “My dear Cassandra: the letters of Jane Austen”, Clarkson N Potter Publishers

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• Please don’t think so lightly of liking someone. It’s terribly important. It is a kind of loving, you know, and one that frequently lasts a lot longer than romance. You can fall out of love, as well in. Most of us do, especially if you don’t actually like the person as well. It doesn’t always grow into love by any means, but sometimes it does.

  Anne Perry

  Falling In Love, Mean, Thinking

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• thus with a kiss I die

  William Shakespeare

  Kissing, Dies

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, Mr Theobald (Lewis), Isaac Reed (1803). “Romeo and Juliet. Comedy of errors”, p.247

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• And even now she beats her head against the bars in the same old way and wonders if there is a bigger place the railroads run to from Chicago where maybe there is romance and big things and real dreams that never go smash.

  Carl Sandburg

  Running, Dream, Real

  Carl Sandburg (2012). “Chicago Poems: Unabridged”, p.15, Courier Corporation

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• Relius looked away. "He said that you...cried," he said softly. "But not that he cried as well," said the queen, amused at the memory. "We were very lachrymose... would you like to hear more romance of the evening? He told me the Guard should be reduced by half, and I threw an ink jar at his head." "Is that when he cried?" "He ducked," said Attolia dryly. "I had not pictured you for a fishwife." "Lo, the transforming power of love.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Queens, Memories, Ink

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• Don't laugh at the spinsters, dear girls, for often very tender, tragic romances are hidden away in the hearts that beat so quietly under the sober gowns, and many silent sacrifices of youth, health, ambition, love itself, make the faded faces beautiful in God's sight. Even the sad, sour sisters should be kindly dealt with, because they have missed the sweetest part of life, if for no other reason.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Beautiful, Girl, Women

  Louisa May Alcott (2015). “Little Women”, p.468, Xist Publishing

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• Thou art to me a delicious torment.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Art, Torment

  'Essays' (1841) 'Friendship'

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• I can't imagine a romance novel published today where the hero rapes the heroine and she falls in love with him.

  Julia Quinn

  Falling In Love, Hero, Today

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• Perhaps all romance is like that; not a contract between equal parties but an explosion of dreams and desires that can find no outlet in everyday life. Only a drama will do and while the fireworks last the sky is a different colour.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Dream, Drama, Party

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• It's just that romance, with its dips and turns and glooms and highs, its swoops and swoons and blues, is a natural metaphor for music itself

  Nick Hornby

  Dip, Metaphor, Natural

  Nick Hornby (2003). “Songbook”, p.52, Penguin

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• To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.

  Saint Augustine

  Faith, God, Falling In Love

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• But I couldn't help myself, couldn't help the way I felt as I recalled the bliss and rush of a vampire's bite.

  Richelle Mead

  Vampire, Way, Helping

  Richelle Mead (2007). “Vampire Academy”, p.45, Penguin

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• You can't force love, I realized. It's there or it isn't. If it's not there, you've got to be able to admit it. If it is there, you've got to do whatever it takes to protect the ones you love.

  Richelle Mead

  Romantic Love, Able, Vampire Academy

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.305, Penguin

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• I have a history of making decisions very quickly about men. I have always fallen in love fast and without measuring risks. I have a tendency not only to see the best in everyone, but to assume that everyone is emotionally capable of reaching his highest potential. I have fallen in love more times than I care to count with the highest potential of a man, rather than with the man himself, and I have hung on to the relationship for a long time (sometimes far too long) waiting for the man to ascend to his own greatness. Many times in romance I have been a victim of my own optimism.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Love, Disappointment, Greatness

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• I seem to have run in a great circle, and met myself again on the starting line.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Running, Circles, Religion

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• The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Relationship, Essence

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.104, Wordsworth Editions

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• Attraction is not an option.

  Neil Strauss

  Attraction

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• There is darkness in light, there is pain in joy, and there are thorns on the rose.

  Cate Tiernan

  Inspirational, Life, Pain

  Cate Tiernan (2007). “Blood Witch: Book Three”, p.23, Penguin

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• It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.

  E. M. Forster

  Love, Romantic, Wish

  E.M. Forster (2012). “A Room with a View”, p.166, Courier Corporation

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• Funny how we think of romance as always involving two, when the romance of solitude can be ever so much more delicious and intense.

  Tom Robbins

  Thinking, Two, Solitude

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.257, Bantam

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• Music is storming, driving, relentless, devotional, slinky, subtle, heartbreakingly-beautiful sounds that, lyrically, switch from the cynical to the sanguine, the defeated to the defiant, dealing in love, war, beauty, children, romance, rejection, Pethedine, poetry, panties, God, Auden, Johnny Cash, cold potatoes, too-much-money, not enough money, writer’s block, flowers, animals and more flowers. But maybe I’m projecting here.

  Nick Cave

  Beautiful, Children, Block

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• All hopes of eternity and all gain from the past he would have given to have her there, to be wrapped warm with him in one blanket, and sleep, only sleep. It seemed the sleep with the woman in his arms was the only necessity.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Sleep, Romantic Love, Past

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Lady chatterleys lover”, p.180, D. H. Lawrence

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