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Quotes About Romance

How mysterious it is, to be in love. For you can be in love with one who knows nothing of you. Perhpas our greatest happinesses spring from such longings-being in love with one who is oblivious of you.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Because I am in love. Love is a slow bleed.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
There could be no romance in the terrible possibility that Gretel Nissenbaum had fled on foot, alone, not to her family but simply to escape from her life; in what exigency of need, what despondency of spirit, no name might be given it by any who have not experienced it.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
There's a sort of melancholy romance to the experience of being lonesome. I think of reading as a kind of romantic alone activity that you're doing. The image would include being curled up somewhere on a rainy day and you're reading very intensely involved in a world that no one can see because it's inside your head.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
He was sentimental about women. It infuriated him that any man, let alone a minister, could behave so selfishly on his honeymoon.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
One thing it was not: love at first sight. He didn't believe in such. He wasn't a believer in romance, sentimental coincidences, "meanings" snatched out of the air. He certainly didn't believe in destiny, he was a gambler by nature and you know that destiny is just chance you try to manipulate for your own profit. Yet
~ Joyce Carol Oates
was in love with Briscoe
~ Joyce Carol Oates
She was in love with love.
~ Joyce Maynard
Rhage! She laughed some more. You brought me out here just to- He started kissing her mouth and putting his hands around her waist. Outcome Engineer. You knew it when you mated me ~ Rhage & Mary 'The Shadows' Page 446
~ jr ward
Come here, female. I mention lately how sexy your brain is.
~ jr ward
Me gustas más cuando te sueño... entonces hago de ti lo que quiero.
~ Juan Rulfo
We all do foolish things when we are in love. Don't we, your grace?
~ Judith McNaught
Childhood romances always seem so real, so enduring, when we are separated from the object of our affection. But usually, when we return, we find that our dreams and memories quiet surpassed reality. -Lady Anne, Whitney's aunt
~ Judith McNaught
Feeling a little foolish over her confidences, Elizabeth glanced up at him with an embarrassed smile. "What is the most beautiful place you've ever seen?" Dragging his gaze from the beauty of the gardens, Ian looked down at the beauty beside him. "Any place," he said huskily, "where you are.
~ Judith McNaught
Elizabeth's entire body started to tremble as his lips began descending to hers. and she sought to forestall what her heart knew was inevitable by reasoning with him. "A gently bred Englishwoman," she shakily quoted Lucinda's lecture. "feels nothing stronger than affection. We do not fall in love." His warm lips covered hers. "I'm a Scot," he murmured huskily. "We do.
~ Judith McNaught
Looking at you has been my favorite pastime from the moment you asked me to describe your face, he said solemnly, looking straight into her eyes.
~ Judith McNaught
God help me if I ever injure my back, Clayton quipped. God help you if you ever turn it, Whitney snapped, for there'll surely be some heartbroken papa or cuckolded husband ready with a knife--if I don't murder you first.
~ Judith McNaught
I ought to break your neck! Clayton interrupted. Too late, Whitney realized that she shouldn't have been standing all this time on her injured knee. Allow me to congratulate you on a fine day's work, Madam, he said sternly. In less than twelve hours, you've brought Whitticomb to your side and Cuthbert to your feet.
~ Judith McNaught
Did he happen to select a color too? Blue. Blue? Victoria burst out, prepared to do physical battle for white. Madame nodded, her finger thoughtfully pressed to her lips, her own hand plunked upon her waist. Yes, blue. Ice blue. He said you are glorious in that color-'a titian-haired angel,' he said Victoria abruptly decided ice blue was a lovely color to be married in.
~ Judith McNaught
Jason, stop this," she pleaded. "You don't want to kiss me. You don't even like me more than a little when you aren't foxed" A harsh laugh escaped him. "I like you too damned much!" he whispered bitterly, then pulled her head down and captured her lips in a demaning, scalding kiss that took everything and give nothing in return.
~ Judith McNaught
Elizabeth, if you want to be kissed, all you have to do is put your lips on mine.
~ Judith McNaught
Lau­ren, he began gravely, I would like four daugh­ters with wob­bly blue eyes and stu­dious horn-rimmed glasses on their lit­tle noses. Also, I've be­come very par­tial to your honey-col­ored hair, so if you could man­age…
~ Judith McNaught
No longer was she an heiress from another world; she was the woman he had wanted to possess the moment he saw her, and she was sitting beside him, her hair cascading over his arm like a thick satin waterfall
~ Judith McNaught
In the middle of his rapid-fire dictatioin he said softly, without pausing, When the sun is on your hair, it shines like spun gold, and launched back into his letter. Lauren, who had inadvertently taken half of the compliment down in shorthand, gave him a killing glance, and he chuckled.
~ Judith McNaught