Top 100 Historical Romance Love Quotes

#1. Without love, we are pointless. With it, we are infinite.

Eden Butler

#2. Sleep well in my arms tonight, love, but know that we must come to an understanding of sorts--for I be a full-blooded male as this fire in my loins doth remind me--and unfortunately, not the saint ye so obviously would have me!

Virginia Aird

#3. Our glass train, on fragile tracks
Beneath bombs that fall like the flood
To wash away the shards
- But all this sorrow will recede
And we will leave
Two by two
And until then, I will only think of you.

Danny M. Cohen

#4. [A]ll these years, I had been telling myself that my feelings for you were a juvenile infatuation; a dream inspired by my secret hope that somewhere there could be a creature who could love me.

Kellyn Roth

#5. If I kiss you now, I won't be able to stop.

Katlyn Charlesworth

#6. Now, at last, she understood her great attraction to him. Here was the companion of her spirit. Here, indeed, was love.

Anne Rouen

#7. I think that's why I love to read. I'll read almost anything - mystery, suspense, slice of life - but what I really love is romance. Contemporary is good, Historical is better, Paranormal is the best.

S.T. Prussing

#8. Love has a heavy load of possibilities. You can't have it without some measure of pain. They go together with an inseparable bond in this world. But it's worth it. I promise you, the treasure is worth the pain.

Miranda Shisler

#9. Look through that clump of trees. There's a hawk sitting on the weathervane at the Red Rooster Inn. I've heard that if someone you love very much passes away, they can come back in the form of a hawk, to look after you and give you comfort.

Caroline Fyffe

#10. Life can be so unexpected and wolderful!

Gabrielle Dubois

#11. I'm still waiting for something, searching for something I cannot describe."
"It's called true love. Most people never find it.

Destin Bays

#12. She did not want to know what charm
he had used to make her love him so deeply. She did not want to know it wasn't real.

Penelope Marzec

#13. She had wanted more than she could have.
She had wanted him, and more ... she had wanted him to want her.
In the name of something bigger than tradition, bolder than reputation, more important than a silly title.

Sarah MacLean

#14. If I say that you are mine, then I am yours.

Elizabetta Holcomb

#15. It was a struggle to not fall in love with a man who was determined to be decent to her when what she sought was indulgence of her wanton nature.
Her recently discovered, very frustrated wanton nature, damn him.

Grace Burrowes

#16. It proved what he had always instinctively known.

Love is Forever.

Anne Rouen

#17. I don't care who he is. He needs to disappear." Ransom turned and called out the window. "For the love of G-d man. I have England's sweetheart bent over the desk and panting for me. Go away and come back tomorrow.

Tessa Dare

#18. My legion has won many victories. And since you are my dearest friend, we will fight that much harder." His intense, dark eyes locked with hers. "I swear to you: Ker-Ys will not fall.

Jennifer McKeithen

#19. Alyssa tried to lift her chin. She was going to do the one thing she loved again- something that reminded her of her mother; something dear to her. So what if she felt this undeniable attraction toward the dark-haired man.
Correction.
Earl.
So what, indeed.

Nicole Castro

#20. All of them. Fated to love in vain.

Anne Rouen

#21. Love should never be a game.

Sherry D. Ficklin

#22. Though the heart may be cracked wide, pain can still seep in.

Rachelle Rea Cobb

#23. You are correct in saying that desires often come from things we cannot easily gain - mine, being that of your love. By all accounts, I do wish I could steal it. But I am not that sort of man. I will wait. Forever and a day ... I will wait.

Renee Vincent

#24. Love will find a way against time itself.

Sylvia Day

#25. Two people, one city, different times; connected by a memoir. Can love exist in a city destined for decades of misery?

Ahmad Ardalan

#26. Her lips found his and a stab of exquisite desire shot through him. This is what he's been waiting for all this time. Not a stolen embrace. A gift, freely given. One that he would keep forever in some small part of his soul.

Courtney Milan

#27. Sir Mark Turner," he said. "I speak with the tongues of a thousand angels. Butterflies follow me wherever I go. Birds sing when I take a breath.

Courtney Milan

#28. It was awful, this love.

Eloisa James

#29. How were we so lucky? Two people lost in a world only to find solace and companionship in someone just as fractured as they are. I think destiny has played a hand in our union.

K. Webster

#30. It is true, Monsieur, that when you die, the ones who love you come for you ... I have seen it.

Anne Rouen

#31. Life isn't worth living without love. Have faith in love! Take a chance, and you might be surprised at how well things will turn out. If you do, you'll be filled with joy. I promise.

Caroline Fyffe

#32. I've bled for you. I've killed for you. I've held you in my arms and done my best to make love to you. I'd give my life to protect you. Now I sit beside you, askin' you to trust me.

Pamela Clare

#33. Except I was hoping someday to see you standing on a ship's deck in your shirtsleeves with a cutlass between your teeth."

"Maybe it can be arranged

Melanie Dickerson

#34. It was enough to drive me mad. I was no longer myself and yet I was so much more me than I had ever been before.
~Katherine Demure

Gwenn Wright

#35. Katie shook her head in dismay. "I thought being poor was the worst thing that could happen to a girl."
"No, Katie," the countess said in a clear voice. "The worst thing is to be in love with one man and have to marry another."
Katie O'Reilly to the Countess of Marbury in "Titanic Rhapsody

Jina Bacarr

#36. No matter how many romantic poems you recite, no matter how many glorious tales of love you read, how can you really understand the condition if you've never found yourself in it?

Sherry D. Ficklin

#37. We must love our slaves, Papa. We must love them as hard as we are able.

P.J. Parker

#38. Midnight Omen Deja vu - Because everyone should experience love in the Caribbean ... at least once in a lifetime.

Marti Melville

#39. I'm not God, and I can't always offer chances. I'm not sure if this won't be your last.

Kellyn Roth

#40. He didn't deserve compassion. Sympathy. Not even understanding. He deserved worse, far worse than he had ever been given.

V.S. Carnes

#41. Angela turned in her chair. Resting her chin on folded hands, the
mirror reflected the look of a girl in love. 'Oh, what a blessing fate has
bestowed on me.

Katherine Givens

#42. The only woman who would wear a gown like this one, love, is one who knows the power she wields and isn't afraid to use it.

Tamara Hughes

#43. The love within them shone as brightly as the lighthouse beam on the darkest, stormiest night. It broke through her confusion and heartache and filled her with a warm glow.

Jody Hedlund

#44. Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in.-Leonard Cohen

Bailey Bristol

#45. He clutched her to him with a desperate strength that almost hurt. "I will love you for your light, if you can love me through the dark times. And that love will be like the clear night sky when the moon is full. Not like the sun....but beautiful and bright enough to find our way.

Kerrigan Byrne

#46. I'll be fine. It's just hard to love somebody who doesn't love you back," Fallon answered.

Marcia Lynn McClure

#47. I am afraid of him now. The one I love most in the world.

Neil Jordan

#48. You are a soldier. A fighter. And now you must fight. Not for the emperor, not for France ... but for yourself.

Rachel L. Demeter

#49. The point is, people have been having babies for thousands of years. There will be frightening moments and exhausting moments, but more than anything---"
"--- there will just be love.

Erica Ridley

#50. Making love with you is even more wonderful than making music."
He drew her closer. "Och, Sarah, you _are_ my music.

Pamela Clare

#51. I love to read history books, which is where I get my ideas. I also read historical romance for pleasure.

Virginia Henley

#52. She wished him at her side this very moment. If only to turn it all to rights by doing his very best to turn it all to ruin.

Elizabeth Boyle

#53. How may times can you lose the one you love?

Lauren James

#54. Now, tomorrow, and always.

Rachel L. Demeter

#55. I've fallen in love with you. I love you even now when you sit before me with the eyes of a wolf. So take pity upon the fool I have become. I forgot it was only a bargain between us.

Ronda Thompson

#56. A hedgehog? And just how does a hedgehog make love?" he demanded.
No, I thought. I won't. I will not. But I did. "Very carefully," I replied, giggling helplessly. So now we know just how old that one is, I thought.

Diana Gabaldon

#57. The contrast between the realization of his neglect and the fondness I had for my father was painful.

Yangsze Choo

#58. I'm an idiot for trying to avoid these feelings because they have caused me pain in the past.

Kellyn Roth

#59. Why are we fated to love those we cannot have ...?

Anne Rouen

#60. How can one fight for a love that acts as the enemy?

Katlyn Charlesworth

#61. You asked if I loved her?
I can't even whisper her name, my heart would burst out of my chest.

Ahmad Ardalan

#62. We can best honor our dead by livin' well. Moving' forward dusna mean y love them any less. It just means ye're still alive.

Heather Blanton

#63. Mercia wasn't a little-in-love sort of man. He was mad, dark passion, sweeping emotion, and complete loss of reason, with his gaunt male beauty, his wealth and power, and his haunted past.

Grace Burrowes

#64. Heart...Soul...Words

Leslie Hachtel

#65. You're my home, Susanna. My home, my heart, my dearest love. Wherever you are, that's where I belong. Always. - Victor Bramwell, Earl of Rycliff

Tessa Dare

#66. I would rather be a cripple and have your love for all of a single moment than to live as I am without ever having it.

Lorraine Heath

#67. Their love was so forbidden that their very touch could wrap a hangman's noose around them.

Victoria Sue

#68. There isn't going to be a 'next lover,'" Grant said automatically, outraged by the idea. "I'm the only man she's going to have.

Lisa Kleypas

#69. A love so true, so consuming, so good.

Melissa Jagears

#70. Let every lady in Camlochlin swoon over a charming smile. She had won the love of a man who shared his most intimate smiles for her alone

Paula Quinn

#71. To know, finally, what love is and not be allowed fulfilment ...

Anne Rouen

#72. His lips were approaching hers, but she could not taste sin. Not yet. Not
until she knew the name of this golden haired man, so her soul could sing
his name for the rest of eternity.

Katherine Givens

#73. Anne Barton is a delightful new voice in historical romance! Once She Was Tempted is a charming read, with characters who are easy to love
a wounded earl and a determined heroine whose heart won't be denied.

Tessa Dare

#74. True love is like little roses,
sweet, fragrant in small doses.

Ana Claudia Antunes

#75. I love stepping back in time

Frances McCarthy

#76. It was a warm and natural feeling to be there. We were not black or white people. We were just people bound together by love and understanding. As I walked out of that church, I felt like I had rediscovered my inner peace.

Nancy B. Brewer

#77. Don't you understand brother? I want to find a love ... that will free me from this love ...

Neil Jordan

#78. The strength was always in you. All you had to do was find it.

Katherine Givens

#79. I love you, Louise Downe McCord. You drive me absolutely crazy sometimes, and this is one of those times, but I love you.

Maggie Osborne

#80. And what she does not know, what nobody else knows but you, is that I have a special place where I go to be with her; my first, my only love.

Anne Rouen

#81. She was in love with the very man she had to kill.

Madeline Martin

#82. History is about ordinary people living their ordinary lives, just as we do today, while all around the world is changing. It makes heroes out of some people and victims out of others.

Vicky Adin

#83. Once the spark of true love has been ignited, it cannot be quenched. It is there forever.

Anne Rouen

#84. Someday, my love, you're going to understand just how much I care for you. You're my light, my warmth, my other half. I only feel alive when I'm with you. I love you. Caine

Julie Garwood

#85. You have not known very many men."
"I have no wish to know any others. I love this one.

Shelly Thacker

#86. When your child comes home to talk about life, what could be more important?

Destin Bays

#87. If I die," he whispered in the dark, "dinna follow me. The bairns will need ye. Stay for them. I can wait.

Diana Gabaldon

#88. You are not by any manner of means the sort of woman I am in search of as a wife, and I am in a totally different universe from the husband you hope to find. But I feel a powerful urge to kiss you, for all that.

Mary Balogh

#89. Mama says love is a sickness of the heart. Only the weak fall under its spell.

Katlyn Charlesworth

#90. I want a man that will do what he needs to do to take care of his family. I will give that man every ounce of love and support I have to give. I will never measure him against another man. I will never want what other people have. I will simply enjoy every minute we have together.

Destin Bays

#91. E wanted her.
And at another time, as another man, he would have her. Without hesitation. As lover ... as more.

Sarah MacLean

#92. The beauty of a woman is that no two are the same. They are all different. It follows then that to be successful as a lover, you cannot make love to any two in the same way.

Shane K.P. O'Neill

#93. I love you enough to keep you from dying with me... ~ Dane de Falaise

Gayle Mullen Pace

#94. Because I can only love you entirely. With everything I am, and everything I ever will be. Body, mind, heart, soul. - Victor Bramwell, Earl of Rycliff.

Tessa Dare

#95. I'll love you until I'm ashes in the dirt beneath the Earth. Then, I'll love you even more.

K. Webster

#96. She had covered herself in frost, so every part of her grew cold and would not feel, because of that single part that longed to hear that word, yet had never known the hope, or expectation, that it would.

Shehanne Moore

#97. This spicy historical will steal your breath, and capture your heart.
-Susan Sigler, Love Romance Passion

Terry Spear

#98. Love was like a stock, Lizzie realized. You gambled on its paying off in the long run - but it could just as easily cost you everything.

Joanna Shupe

#99. You thought I was peculiar," she said in a muffled voice.
His mouth brushed the edge of her ear and settled against her neck. She felt that he was smiling. "Darling love ... you are.

Lisa Kleypas

#100. And there are no words left, try as men may, to describe that little death, that incandescent instant when, transacted with mutual love, there is no difference between sweet submission and exquisite conquest.

Isolde Martyn

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