Romance Quotes - Page 18

• What he would say, he cannot say to this woman whose openness is like a wound, whose youth is not mortal yet. He cannot alter what he loves most in her, her lack of compromise, where the romance of the poems she loves still sits with ease in the real world. Outside these qualities he knows there is no order in the world.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Real, Order, Quality

  Michael Ondaatje (2011). “The English Patient”, p.157, Vintage

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• Don't leave a piece of jewelry at his house so you can go back and get it later; he may be with his real girlfriend.

  Amy Sedaris

  Girlfriend, Real, Women

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• The tragedy of preparedness has scarcely been handled, save by the Greeks. Life is indeed dangerous, but not in the way morality would have us believe. It is indeed unmanageable, but the essence of it is not a battle. It is unmanageable because it is a romance, and its essence is romantic beauty.

  E. M. Forster

  Believe, Essence, Greek

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.606, Delphi Classics

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• Statistically speaking, there is a 65 percent chance that the love of your life is having an affair. Be very suspicious.

  Scott Dikkers

  Relationship, Chance, Life Is

  Scott Dikkers (2009). “You Are Worthless: Depressing Nuggets of Wisdom Sure to Ruin Your Day”, p.135, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• This is as much a part of my story as anything else. Friendship is love as much as any romance.

  David Levithan

  Stories

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• I despised their antics because I took life seriously and had a much more lofty and tender notion of romance. But I would have liked to get their attention just the same.

  Alice Munro

  Attention, Notion, Antics

  Alice Munro (1999). “The love of a good woman: stories”, Penguin, 1999

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• Hey, if you'd wanted to avoid 'this,' you shouldn't have lured me last night. Now it's too late. You might as well avoid the long, drawn-out pain and get it over with quickly. Sort of like taking off a Band-Aid. Or cutting off a limb." "Wow, who says there's no romance left in the world?

  Richelle Mead

  Pain, Cutting, Night

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Succubus Blues”, p.107, Zebra Books

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• come back so i can say yes this time do it again now that i know what to call what you did this time i'll be ready i like it rough now and i'm done with romance i never met another man who loved me so much at first sight he had to hurt me to do it

  Daphne Gottlieb

  Hurt, Men, Sight

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• Nice dress. Take it off.

  Janet Evanovich

  Nice, Dresses

  Janet Evanovich, Ina Yalof (2006). “How I Write: Secrets of a Bestselling Author”, p.101, Macmillan

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• It is hard to laugh at the need for beauty and romance, no matter how tasteless, even horrible, the results of that need are. But it is easy to sigh. Few things are sadder than the truly monstrous.

  Nathanael West

  Laughing, Needs, Matter

  Nathanael West (1969). “Miss Lonelyhearts & The Day of the Locust”, p.61, New Directions Publishing

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• When you have a good romance, find ways to make their lives miserable and hellish...Do you think 'Titanic' would have been so popular if they had both lived? Not a prayer.

  Orson Scott Card

  Prayer, Thinking, Way

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• Things work out the way they're meant to

  Danielle Steel

  Work Out, Way, Things Work Out

  Danielle Steel (1991). “Changes ; No greater love ; Thurston house”

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• Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.

  Samuel Johnson

  Marriage, Wedding, Pain

  Rasselas ch. 26 (1759)

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• Only a true best friend can protect you from your immortal enemies.

  Richelle Mead

  Friendship, Enemy, My Best Friend

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• Sometime you will find, even as I have found, that there is no such thing as romantic experience; there are romantic memories, and there is the desire of romance- that is all. Our most fiery moments of ecstasy are merely shadows of what somewhere else we have felt, or of what we long someday to feel

  Oscar Wilde

  Memories, Somewhere Else, Long

  Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.17, University of Chicago Press

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• Singing songs that make you slit your wrists

  Gerard Way

  Music, Song, Singing

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• She understood now why her friend Elizabeth, with her near-genius, analytical mind gave wide berth to murder mysteries, psychological thrillers, and horror stories, and read only romance novels. Because, by God, when a woman picked up one of those steamy books, she had a firm guarantee that there would be a Happily-Ever-After. That though the world outside those covers could bring such sorrow and disappointment and loneliness, between those covers, the world was a splendid place to be.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Disappointment, Loneliness, Book

  FaceBook post by Karen Marie Moning from Oct 27, 2014

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• The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. And that's what you've given me. That's what I'd hoped to give you forever

  Nicholas Sparks

  Love, Best Friend, Romantic

  FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from Oct 31, 2011

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• Blood of my Blood," he whispered, "and bone of my bone. You carry me within ye, Claire, and ye canna leave me now, no matter what happens, You are mine, always, if ye will it or no, if ye want me or nay. Mine, and I wilna let ye go.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Blood, Want, Matter

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series Bundle: Books 1, 2, 3, and 4: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn”, p.1231, Delacorte Press

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• I knew from the moment I heard you, the moment I saw the gun and realized that this lovely, petit woman was the executioner, that you would never die waiting for me to save you - that you would save yourself.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Gun, Waiting, Lovely

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2001). “Narcissus in Chains: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.251, Penguin

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• What every girl dreams of when she's dumped is - that the guy will someday feel regrest and come back and tell her all about it. And the beauty of it is you have no regrets whatsoever.

  Emily Giffin

  Girl, Dream, Regret

  Emily Giffin (2008). “Love the One You're With”, p.166, Macmillan

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• I'll find you, don't worry. My body won't be with you all the time, but you'll always have my heart. I'm your worrier, remember?" "I'll never forget. I promise. I'm your High Priestess and you've pledged yourself to me. That means you have my heart, too." "Then both of us better stay safe. A heart's a hard thing to live without. I should know. I've tried it.

  P. C. Cast

  Heart, Mean, Worry

  P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast (2010). “Hunted: A House of Night Novel”, p.181, St. Martin's Griffin

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• I no longer believed in the idea of soul mates, or love at first sight. But I was beginning to believe that a very few times in your life, if you were lucky, you might meet someone who was exactly right for you. Not because he was perfect, or because you were, but because your combined flaws were arranged in a way that allowed two separate beings to hinge together.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Love, Believe, Ideas

  FaceBook post by Lisa Kleypas from Sep 20, 2010

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• The worst of having a romance of any kind is that it leaves one so unromantic.

  Oscar Wilde

  Kind, Worst

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (Diversion Classics)”, p.17, Diversion Books

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• I am an author of Christian Fantasy. My first 7 books were Christian Romance, but I came over to the Dark Side when I heard there were cookies.

  Donita K. Paul

  Christian, Book, Dark

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