Quotes About Romance

Should you chance to read it a second or third time, Wuthering Heights comes at you afresh, in part because the novel seems to vanish into its own delirious origins once you've finished it, leaving no footprints, and in part because it is a literary force of nature such as you've never encountered before.

In the beginning, I wanted his heart. Then I shifted focus to his body. I was never interested in only friendship.

Did things get a lot hotter between you two? A little stove-top stuffing in the kitchen?-Amy

Some scientists hypothesize that having children is the only reason romantic love came about. It kept couples together long enough to mate and see a baby through infancy.

Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.' 

Did things get a lot hooter between you tow? A little stove-top stuffing in the kitchen? -Amy

If you were a girl... I'd kiss you!

Just you, darling. Lanky brunettes with wicked jaws.

He wanted to fly in lightweight contraptions with her.

Trains had a nostalgic magnetism that was undeniable, even for the many Americans who'd never even been on one.

He drew in her scent. Her breath smelled of

Her hand moved higher, tracing his

And when the clothes are strewn, Don't be afraid of the room. Touch the fullness of her breast, Feel the love of her caress... She will be your living end. - Lady Grinning Soul

Tormentas de estrellas Sobre el fragor de las olas... ¿Nos mojaremos, amor?

If you want real passion, you need a ravisher and a ravishee; otherwise, you just have two buddies who decide to rub genitals in bed.

Contemporary fantasists all bow politely to Lord Tennyson and Papa Tolkien, then step around them to go back to the original texts for inspiration--and there are a lot of those texts. We have King Arthur and his gang in English; we've got Siegfried and Brunhild in German; Charlemagne and Roland in French; El Cid in Spanish; Sigurd the Volsung in Icelandic; and assorted 'myghtiest Knights on lyfe' in a half-dozen other cultures. Without shame, we pillage medieval romance for all we're worth.

Some day, Prince Kheldar, you will fall in love, the queen said with a little smirk, and the twelve kingdoms will stand around and chortle over the fall of so notorious a bachelor.

This by the way is known as Werther's Axiom, whereby quote The Intensity of a desire D is inversely proportional to the ease of D's gratification. Known also as Romance.

That her will and wishes had opposed my own just a little more. This by the way is known as Werther's Axiom, whereby quote the intensity of a desire D is inversely proportional to the ease of D's gratification. Known also as Romance.

In the eighth American-educational grade, Bruce Green fell dreadfully in love with a classmate who had the unlikely name of Mildred Bonk. The name was unlikely because if ever an eighth-grader looked like a Daphne Christianson or a Kimberly St.-Simone or something like that, it was Mildred Bonk.

A lady who sets her heart upon a lad in uniform must prepare to change lovers pretty quickly, or her life will be but a sad one.

and, perhaps, Mr. Dobbin's sentimental Amelia was no more like the real one than this absurd little print which he cherished. But what man in love, of us, is better informed? - or is he much happier when he sees and owns his delusion?

What qualities are there for which a man gets so speedy a return of applause, as those of bodily superiority, activity, and valour? Time out of mind strength and courage have been the theme of bards and romances; and from the story of Troy down to to-day, poetry has always chosen a soldier for a hero. I wonder is it because men are cowards in heart that they admire bravery so much, and place military valour so far beyond every other quality for reward and worship?

the dark walks, so favourable to the interviews of young lovers