Romance Quotes

Everything that ever happened to me that was important happened in the desert.

Michael Ondaatje

His hands may have been the one to heal you, but it will be mine that awaken you.

Charlotte Featherstone

Find the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse to let them go.

Lauren Oliver

Neither of us says the word love, not once. It would be tempting fate; it would be romance, bad luck.

Margaret Atwood

He sighed and bowed deeply. Sundari. I was standing here thinking nothing could be more beautiful than this sunset tonight, but I was mistaken. You standing here in the setting sun with your hair and skin aglow is almost more than a man canfully appreciate.

Colleen Houck

To return to love, to get the love we always wanted but never had, to have the love we want but are not prepared to give, we seek romantic relationships. We believe these relationships, more than any other, will rescue and redeem us. True love does have the power to redeem but only if we are ready for redemption. Love saves us only if we want to be saved.

Bell Hooks

The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

Oscar Wilde

Will you love me enough?

Ana Monnar

All I really, really want our love to do is to bring out the best in me and in you too.

Joni Mitchell

Everyone says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive

C.S. Lewis

You're too busy being you that you don't realize how utterly unprecedented you are.

John Green

I never had any preference for her, any more than I have a preference for breathing.

George Eliot

He was with me, beside me, inside me, and I did not care that my children were asleep, alone at home, or that the neighbors might come to know. He burned the fear out of me until all was left was desire.

Ru Freeman

Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you're wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn't love you anymore.

Lady Gaga

IAGO: She that was ever fair and never proud,Had tongue at will and yet was never loud,Never lack'd gold and yet went never gay,Fled from her wish and yet said 'Now I may,'She that being anger'd, her revenge being nigh,Bade her wrong stay and her displeasure fly,She that in wisdom never was so frailTo change the cod's head for the salmon's tail;She that could think and ne'er disclose her mind,See suitors following and not look behind,She was a wight, if ever such wight were,--DESDEMONA: To do what?IAGO: To suckle fools and chronicle small beer.

William Shakespeare

You have bewitched me, body and soul.

Jane Austen

Love is a smoke rais'd with the fume of sighs; being purg'd, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes; being vex'd, a sea nourish'd with lovers' tears; what is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall, and a preserving sweet.

William Shakespeare

I fell for her like a suicide from a bridge.

Neil Gaiman

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

Isaac Disraeli

I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.

Jane Austen