Highland Romance Quotes

#1. Perfection should not have come quite so soon.

Jane Austen

#2. The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is-it's to imagine what is possible.

Bell Hooks

#3. How could their love for each other be so wrong?

Terry Spear

#4. The rough pad of his thumb dragged across the split on her lip as light as a whisper. She felt his caress in her bones.
And elsewhere.

Kerrigan Byrne

#5. It simply isn't a woman's nature to be silent for prolonged periods of time.

Maya Banks

#6. She was fixated on replaying the image of a tall, broad, Highland warrior marching into battle against the evil waterfalls of doom to rescue a stuffed dinosaur.
He'd saved Cindy.
For Noah.
CJ Blue was making it very difficult for Natalie to continue to dislike him.

Jamie Farrell

#7. With breathtaking rapidity, we are destroying all that was lovely to look at and turning America into a prison house of the spirit. The affluent society, with relentless single-minded energy, is turning our cities, most of suburbia and most of our roadways into the most affluent slum on earth.

Eric Sevareid

#8. I was never the kind of painter or sculptor who kept a shop.

Michelangelo Buonarroti

#9. It was written in those stars that we meet." His voice gathered a tender fervency that unstitched something from inside Mena's soul. "We are bound in some inescapable way, thee and me. I've known it since I first laid eyes on ye in that dress.

Kerrigan Byrne

#10. The damned bitch has questions to answer. So she better not be dead. She can save that for when we've done.

Shehanne Moore

#11. Well, if he was already damned, he might as well follow his wicked impulses all the way to hell.
At least he'd get to taste her again.

Kerrigan Byrne

#12. I would like to know the given name of the woman who can kiss me so passionately she makes me want to climb to the roof tops and roar.

Amy Jarecki

#13. Really, you might make an effort. Honestly, I don't know what's the matter with all of you!
I do, Tiffany thought. You're like a dog worrying sheep all the time. You don't give them time to obey you and you don't let them know when they've done things right. You just keep barking.

Terry Pratchett

#14. She had always clung to the hope her world would somehow regain its course and would one day cease its unbearable orbit of a darkened star

Shehanne Moore

#15. Heaven will be full of the songs of worshipers who had once been broken people in a broken world, picked up and used for God's glory.

Louie Giglio

#16. Kenna gave herself to Alexander to do as he wished, welcoming it, aching for it. She had no control. She wanted none. She was his.

May McGoldrick

#17. Never look at the moon as you reach for the stars

Shehanne Moore

#18. Alone. It was such an insignificant word. Or it had been for centuries. He'd sought out the solitude, had slept away centuries in his cave without hesitation. And now? Now he hated the quiet.
He detested being alone.

Donna Grant

#19. People were always hungry, bullied, afraid, paranoid - so I just thought I'd show that in the novel in a kind of suffocating way.

Fred D'Aguiar

#20. Mena knew men like the Laird of Ravencroft Keep rarely existed, and when they did, history made gods of them.
Or demons.

Kerrigan Byrne

#21. We are using our own skins for wallpaper and we cannot win.

John Berryman

#22. My goal in life was to rule my tiny, elite world, so I did.

Fisher Amelie

#23. I pronounce ye married, laird and lady. No' 'til death will ye part. And now, Toran," he added with a wink, "ye may kiss the bride.

Willa Blair

#24. Nothing is more flattering for a writer than when someone knows your work.

Hilton Als

#25. You can eat a lot more vegetables than you can cotton candy. Bring on the veggies. Stay away from the fluffy carbs.

Stephen Furst

#26. My love for her is stronger than my hatred of you.

Maya Banks

#27. Well, tomorrow I'll be in charge of a toga party. Will you wear a toga for that?"...
"A Highland wolf doesn't wear a toga," he said.

Terry Spear

#28. Children's names? Wedding nights? Was she mad? There weren't going to be any children. And there wasn't going to be any wedding night.
Because, after the wedding feast, there wasn't going to be any groom.

Shehanne Moore

#29. He watched her emerald eyes darken with need until they were the color of the Highland hills warmed by the summer sun.

Shelly Thacker

#30. Let my worship be within the heart that rejoices,
for behold, all acts of love and pleasure are my rituals.
Therefore, let there be beauty and strength,
power and compassion, honor and humility,
mirth and reverence within you.

Doreen Valiente