Top 100 Contemporary Adult Romance Quotes
#1. I want to make people smile. I want to tell an epic story ... with laughter. I want to change the way people view the world. I want life to stop being so damn dramatic all the time. I want ... what are you doing?
Cassie Mae
#2. In the Pretty Woman shopping scene, it's not really about the clothes, or how much they cost, or how great she looks. When Vivian leaves the store, she's not only a pretty woman, she's a different woman. It gets me every time.
Victoria Van Tiem
#3. Lacing my fingers through his, I studied them. His fingers were so much longer than mine, and I envisioned what those fingers could do. And how long they would take to do it before they sent me over the edge. - Lacey
Victoria H. Smith
#4. He shifts awkwardly, and I realize a few things:
First, I'm still clinging to a stranger I fell into like an idiot.
Second, before he moved, I think I felt something hard. Down there. Maybe.
Third, I have cupcake all over my face.
Helena Rac
#5. Sometimes you have to walk away from what you want in order to find what you deserve.
Belle Aurora
#6. His eyes were closed, waiting. I tilted my head, slowly taking in every detail of his face.
And suddenly, something remarkable happened, like a switch turned on deep inside my chest. Instead of wanting to make out, to have a summer fling ... I wanted to fall in love.
Ophelia London
#7. If you were ready to sleep with me we wouldn't be in this bar, but in my room not wasting any more time.
Stephanie Witter
#8. He stood there tall and dashing, peering down at her with a set of mesmerizing sapphire eyes. It wasn't the eyes that had her sex-drive squealing into overdrive; it was that ... hair. Now, Tarrah had never really been into redheads before, but damn, she sure as hell would be willing to convert.
Victoria H. Smith
#10. I find it rather depressing that the people you love most in this world can also be the same exact people you hate with fervor. But it can happen, trust me.
It was the f***ing story of my life.
Christina Channelle
#11. He is who he is, but it's not enough for me. I want more. I don't want him for just a night. I want him beside me every night.
Faith Sullivan
#12. Fate was cruel to play this trick on her, although if she were honest she knew she only had herself to blame. She had taken the chance and now she had to pay the price.
Emily Arden
#13. It feels like the city is telling secrets down here, privy only to those who think to listen.
Gayle Forman
#15. I think it's time you got a summer love of your own until lover boy sees he need to ditch Gina.
Dana Burkey
#16. Love and I, we're on opposite sides of the galaxy. I'm pretty sure that bitch is hiding in a black hole to avoid me.
Briana Pacheco
#17. You could make friends with a possessed unicorn, couldn't you?"
"Probably so. We both fart rainbows.
Jamie Farrell
#18. Because I'm even more determined to bring that light back to his eyes. And I know my love is strong enough to do it.
Faith Sullivan
#19. Ari's words felt like drops of sunlight upon my skin, and my frame was burning with longing.
Petra March
#20. It's bewildering to me how you can just start chatting with a complete stranger on Facebook, and - next thing you know - it seems as if there's some intense connection with the person - or at least you feel that closeness and hope it's mutual
Zack Love
#21. You have no idea how damaged I am and honestly, I don't even understand why you are still here.
Daniele Lanzarotta
#22. I'm going to make love to you, Lanie. I'm not your first, but I will be the last.
Flora Roberts
#23. You know there is a thin line between love and hate. Maybe you loved me and didn't realise
Kirsty Moseley
#24. Trace was just one of those guys who caught your attention no matter if you had a ring on your finger. He would be hot 'til the day he died. Seriously.
Chelsea Lynn Charters The Gossip Web
#25. I can taste sunshine and hope on his tongue. I want this kiss, this taste, to last forever.
Elisabeth Staab
#26. I closed my eyes and immediately I pictured Brooklyn's full lips parted on a moan, her eyes glassy and her pupils dilated, her cheeks flushed and her body ... her smoking body bared only for me.
Stephanie Witter
#27. She licked her lips, and I ached to kiss her mouth. I wanted to lick it, nip it, suck on it; I wanted to own it. I wanted to give her a kiss she's never fucking forget.
Ilsa Madden-Mills
#28. I'd love to wake up next to you in this room, in this bed, every day.
Faith Sullivan
#29. You're my true north. No compass would point me in any other direction but to you.
Kristen Hope Mazzola
#31. He made me feel wanted - good about myself, even. Like he immediately accepted me for me, no questions asked.
Faith Sullivan
#32. God damn, I wish I could fast-forward time and be old and wrinkly. How awesome would that be? No more worrying about getting ogled by douche bags like Trent Gibson, or getting all hormonal and bothered against my will over hotties like Grant Blue, who wouldn't touch me with a ten-foot pole.
Isobel Irons
#33. What are you thinking?" I ask.
"That I wish this was my home, too."
I have nothing to say to this, so I kiss him instead.
Anna Bloom
#34. Yes, Mel. That's exactly why I left without explaining. Because I think about you before I think about myself. Always remember that, Little Ballerina. Always.
L.J. Shen
#35. If you're around someone who makes you feel good, you have to go for it. Don't hold back.
Faith Sullivan
#36. She was magic, a direct light - the kind that seeps through in places that didn't exist inside him anymore. The light he thought he lost forever, but Nick realized we don't lose the light, we absorb it, and with Olivia he wanted to absorb every small speck of it.
Maria La Serra
#37. He's an idiot for letting you walk away in that dress tonight.
Kelly Stevenson
#38. I want you to need me but not half as much as I want you to want me.
Siobhan Davis
#39. Love doesn't conquer all; it's a powerful tool to overcome everything because it means you're not alone.
Stephanie Witter
#40. Misha, my best friend who got me into bed and fucked me with a lie.
Penelope Douglas
#41. You know there's this gaping space between us, and if I leaned forward I'd grab Dex's shirt without ever touching him. You know there's a three-inch-thick glass wall separating us.
Now we know, too.
Rebecca Berto
#42. Paradoxically, the more Michael kept me at a distance, the more I trusted him - perhaps because he was always willing to help me with tips and introductions even though he wanted absolutely nothing from me (and never reciprocated my nosiness with personal questions of his own with me).
Zack Love
#43. I don't think I've ever referred to any girl I dated as my girlfriend. I think that would freak me out. Even the girl that I dated for two years in college I don't think I ever referred to her as my girlfriend."
"How would you introduce her?" I asked.
"I'm just going to say her name," he said.
Daniel Amory
#44. Maybe I am the eye candy on the team, but the only mouth I plan on melting in is hers.
Collette West
#45. I've never been able to stand up for myself while growing up, but I will stand up for you against anyone who ever threatens to hurt you in any way.
Daniele Lanzarotta
#46. Nothing has or will ever be weird with us Derrick. Now that I've been touched by you things will never be the same.
T.H. Snyder
#47. Starting from this day, I will create a chance of happiness that doesn't depend on perfect conditions. My options may not be infinite, but my possibilities are endless." -Bliss Aston
Umi Allison
#48. Quietly, under my breath, I mumbled a name and it wasn't the name of the girl waiting in the other room.
In my mind I pictured Brooklyn's sounds as she came and I jerked in my hand, coming and coming.
Something had to give.
Stephanie Witter
#49. What a fucking charade.
Happy. That shit isn't in our cards. - Duke
Stephanie Witter
#51. Maybe he would see me as weak and stupid. Maybe he was right.
Leslea Tash
#52. His lips touched mine and I lost my breath. Everything slipped away until there was only him. - Natasha
M.G. Morgan
#53. I'm the only one for you, just me. You're my bad girl. No one else's.
Ilsa Madden-Mills
#54. But sometimes you have to make a decision with your heart instead of your head, and that's what I did. I know I've made the right decision even if it takes my brain a little while to catch up to my heart.
Marie Landry
#55. I promise to keep my hands to myself. I'm too exhausted to make a move on you.
Faith Sullivan
#56. True, but Little Sister is patient and she's always watching.
Jenn Cooksey
#58. It's just ... how do I put this? Maybe it's just hard for me to imagine turning down something that's so much harder for someone like me to find.
Liz Czukas
#59. You are my heart now. Whatever happens to you happens to me.
Faith Sullivan
#60. The good news is that fear is a choice. You can stand in front of it, punch it in the face and get on with life. - Gabe
Courtney Cole
#61. He owes me nothing, yet gives me everything in return. - SHEA
Michelle Warren
#62. You just gotta love someone with full force, even if it hurts you. Even if you end up regretting it, at least you gave it your all.
Magan Vernon
#63. Chemistry's a tricky thing, and if I'm not feeling it, I'm not gonna pretend.
Faith Sullivan
#64. What do I look like? A blonde rolodex for boys who've lost an archery match with cupid?
Jenn Cooksey
#65. I'd have to say, you've got something behind those hazel eyes of yours that I haven't seen in a long time
Magan Vernon
#66. As soon as I saw her, I knew I had to stay far away from her. Being with her makes me feel like I've been starving for so long. Sofia has given me a taste of something I didn't know I wanted. Something I am now desperate for. Her.
E.R. Wade
#67. You know I'm always ready to indulge your fantasies.
Faith Sullivan
#68. It wasn't until the morning after my uneventful shift, when I wake up, dazed and tense and frustrated as hell, that I realize I'm getting obsessed with that girl, my partner, and this thing is running me ragged.
Charlotte Penn Clark
#69. I didn't have to look at him to know I'd just lost everything I'd ever wanted because I felt it. I felt the loss seep into bone and tissue. I felt it settle between the cracks in my heart and the empty holes in my soul.
Julie Bale
#71. Moments like these are fleeting, and we have to grab onto them while we can. From the instant I saw you, I wanted to give you my heart. But today I'll settle for giving you a flower.
Chloe Asher
#73. The bats stop flying above and the moon stands still. He commands the air and the sky and my body.
Eliza Freed
#74. But no matter what happens, I spoke up, made a voice for myself, freed from the haunting memories that have owned me for the last six years. I found my courage.
Jessica Sorensen
#75. I wasn't trying to make you jealous. But if jealousy does this to you, I might need to consider it." He gripped my sides firmly, letting his lips gently dance over mine, "Mags, I'm yours. You have nothing to worry about.
Kristen Hope Mazzola
#76. She was damaged and broken and there wasn't any kind of glue in the world that could fix her.
Julie Bale
#77. Weapons could defend and also kill. Accident could strengthen or destroy. The choice was hers. ~ Lea
E. Mellyberry
#78. You naked in my bed is even more unbelievably beautiful than I thought it would be ... and trust me I've thought about it. A lot.
Abbi Glines
#79. Chloe helps to calm me. She makes me feel like nothing in this world exist other than the two of us. I love her more than anything and one day she'll be all mine.
T.H. Snyder
#80. Even if they are fictional, I always thought that mermaids were beautiful creatures. Of course, they don't compare to you, but still ...
Daniele Lanzarotta
#81. And on bad days, when his aura of sadness blazed like an alarm he couldn't turn off, I felt like I was doing everything wrong.
Lindsey Frydman
#82. There's a reason why relationships don't work out. It's usually better to take a few steps back if you have any doubts before it gets complicated and you find yourself in a tangled web, not of your doing, but somehow you end up paying the price.
E.R. Wade
#83. All the bad in my life led me to her, which makes me think that I can live with the past if she is my future. - HEW
Michelle Warren
#84. Talk to me. Say something, anything," he pleaded quietly as if he was trying to tame a wild animal.
"There's nothing to say."
He looked up and lowered his eyebrows on his eyes. "Why did you kiss me?
Stephanie Witter
#85. How can I expect to get anything done around here with you touching me like that?
Faith Sullivan
#86. Why the anchor?"
"Because sometimes, it's nice to feel like there's someone who can save you.
L.J. Shen
#87. Therapy can't erase scars, it only makes it easier to live with them. - Duke
Stephanie Witter
#88. Maybe Duke was just the kind of person you don't keep in your life, but the kind of person that changes your life forever.
Stephanie Witter
#89. Cinna slid down the bar, sassing three groomsmen and
winking at a fourth on her way.
"I totally get why some animals eat their young," Pepper said.
Jamie Farrell
#90. Uh, yeah, I love ... worms Classic. Someone should record the gold that flows from my mouth.
Rachel Van Dyken
#91. She glared at me. I didn't care. One word was playing a loop in my heaad: mine.
Kristen Callihan
#92. I never felt in love with anyone. Though right now with Luna, I'm pretty sure this is what it feels like to be in love with a person.
Briana Pacheco
#93. We promised we'd all stay in touch. Even joked about a yearly reunion. These kinds of goodbyes are the scary goodbyes. The goodbyes where you know the chances of seeing each other again are very slim.
Estelle Maskame
#94. Brad is a natural - perfect boyfriend material - if only I swung that way.
Siobhan Davis
#95. Quinton: I think if every person had a Nova Reed in this world, then life would be a little sunnier.
Jessica Sorensen
#96. Dear girl with the red scarf,
Love was never meant to be conquered. You have to surrender to it.
Trust me, after all, I am Mr. Universe.
Maria La Serra
#97. And sometimes when I feel that much emotion, something inside of me just snaps.
Colleen Hoover
#98. You feel pretty ,manly to me," I breathed out, all jelly-legged with half-mast eyes.
"And you feel like a woman worthy of a fight, Ms.Greene.
L.J. Shen
#99. Phoenix wouldn't stop looking at me like he was looking through a telescope. It was unsettling, being stared at like I was the most beautiful thing in space.
Briana Pacheco
#100. You've got nothing to be worried about," he whispers slowly, his breath hot against my cheek, "because, baby, I'm all yours.
Estelle Maskame
