Quotes About Romance

Sometimes his eyes could look dreamy. It was when he drooped his eyelids over them as he was doing now. It was a familiar, long-remembered look. His size, his nearness, his body heat, the smell of his cologne no longer seemed threatening. They became like a shelter around her, wrapping her in the sensual pleasure of the present moment, shielding her from everything that threatened from the outside.

She thought for one moment that he was going to kiss her and longed for the touch of his lips.

He did not immediately answer. Their eyes locked and neither looked away. Camille swallowed as he pushed away from the counter and came toward her. He set one hand on the table beside hers and the other on the back of her chair. He drew breath as though to say something, but then leaned over her instead and kissed her.

I have never stopped loving you, he said. I realized that as soon as I saw you again.

She had kissed him back, eagerly, inexpertly . . . and had rashly gazed into his eyes afterward and told him with passionate conviction that she loved him, that she would always, always love him.

There is no other woman as lovely as you . . . And only you can satisfy my soul.

Of course Diana is taken with Jack. Why else would she ignore him?

Our wedding night, she whispered, and dreams were reborn as she rested her face against his neckcloth.

As the daughter of an earl, he said, you could probably snare a duke, Margaret, if there is one available. They both laughed. If he is young, handsome, wealthy, kind, and inclined to love me to distraction, she said, then I will grab him. She laughed again. Provided I love him to distraction too, of course.

Do you love me? she asked him, lifting her face to his . . . He kissed her. She clung to him, tasting his answer in his mouth.

But body and mind knew alike that he was Piers, that she had given all of herself to him, with nothing held back. She knew it, and she reveled in the knowledge. For all her life she would know that they had been lovers for one brief and glorious night.

Ah, but it is a woman's romantic view of life that keeps it from becoming dull.

She looked more fragile and more lovely than ever in the moonlight. He felt that stirring of desire he had felt the first time he had touched her and she him.

If she were not very careful, she would fall in love with him. And would not that be a shocking thing?

Ah, something about young love, I believe. There is no stopping it, apparently.

He hovered at the edge of a kiss, just as a few nights before he had hovered . . .

I could not crave any other woman when there was you.

To Jane Austen, for making romance novels classics and keepers for generations.

He doubtless thought I had you in the bushes ravishing you. Well, she said, you must admit that you had something not too far distant from that on your mind. A kiss? he said. Similar to ravishment? You malign me. I was about to kiss you, Diana, in the tradition of true romance.

She would never marry a rake, if you will pardon my plain speaking. Then she will reform him . . . A reformed rake makes the best of husbands, it is said.

They strolled toward the causeway, and he took her hand, lacing his fingers with hers. 'I am quite capable of moving of my own volition, I thank you,' Diana said, staring straight ahead. He looked down at her in feigned astonishment. 'I am quite sure you are,' he said. 'I would have swung you up into my arms if I had thought you were not.' He retained his hold of her hand.

What woman below the age of thirty could look at Jack and not fall in love with him? He is almost criminally handsome and quite irresistibly roguish. What a combination. It should not be allowed.

She held out her right hand to him. He took it in his, held it in a firm clasp for a moment, and then raised it to his lips. If he tried to say anything more, he thought, smiling at her, he would surely disgrace himself by weeping.

He is a very handsome gent, Bridget conceded. That should not be allowed either, Diana said. Gentlemen who are that handsome should not be allowed to run around free doing all sorts of damage to female hearts.