Quotes About Romance

The music that inspires the souls of lovers exists within themselves and the private universe they occupy. They share it with each other; they do not share it with the tribe or with society. The courage to hear that music and to honor it is one of the prerequisites of romantic love.

No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country where there is no shadow, no antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but a commonplace prosperity, in broad and simple daylight, as is happily the case with my dear native land.

I wish I had the gift of making rhymes, for methinks there is poetry in my head and heart since I have been in love with you.

Kyo-kun and Tohru sitting in a tree... K-I-S...? - Shigure Sohma

I never meant to get so close to you. I never meant to fall in love.

I believe in romance with bite, sex with enthusiasm, and a full range of emotions from cave to sky that would make 'Heathcliff' and 'Mr. Darcy' fall to their knees in full passion. I believe in romantic erotica that is exciting and invigorating for both men and women. My readers share my books with their lovers. They can't get my books back from their wives. Or husbands.

Biting's excellent. It's like kissing - only there is a winner.

Every lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel.

You are intelligent, you are diplomatic, you are beautiful, and you are and always will be...[he kisses her]...MINE...

HELEN You, too, Tom. You're a good man. (Kisses him back.) Good and strong and brave and … ummmm … lots of nice things … TOM … mmmmmm. I love it when you talk dirty.

this was a thing you keep up on in high school, girls you secretly like but can't get at 'cause they're dating somebody, maybe a friend, and so you file 'em away and hope the guy joins the army and gets sent to laos or something…

In the dance of infatuation, we see others not as they are, but as projections of who we want them to be. And we impose on them all the imaginary criteria we think will fill the void in our hearts.

Continued remarks about John and Lisa being like Clarence and Alabama in True Romance or Mickey and Mallory in Natural Born Killers had lifted the atmosphere somewhat.

A man should kiss his wife's navel every day.

Love was supposed to be like that, wasn't it? A sort of joyful, barely contained madness…

los padres raramente conocen el lado romántico de la vida de sus hijos.

Ou a mulher é fria ou morde. Sem dentada não há amor possível.

My first marriage was very traditional, in the church, and then we left the church and went to the reception hall. So this time, I'd like to go fairy tale all the way.

perhaps love was like the mumps. If a woman came down with it after forty, it could kill her

You can only do a thing for the first time once, and that goes for falling in love.

like all male lovers he had quickly built a rose-coloured version that matched his own hope:

Jij neukt me vanachter terwijl ik de pennette ai quattro formaggi doorroer.

Falling for someone romantically is more complex. Many of the old classic languages refer to three different types of love or affection. Roughly translated, they include general, brotherly and sexual love. When all three are present, a relationship is indeed rich.

Books are the province of romantics and humanists, not heartless nerds.