Top 71 Quotes About Romance Literature
#3. I want to be wooed. I want to be courted. I want to be seduced. I want the magical tension that is there at the start of a relationship.
Andrew Critchley
#4. Be careful," Aidan called from the bed. "You don't know what he might do."
"We all know what you'd do, though, don't we?
Holly Black
#5. Maternal absence, in one form or another, is always found in the background of the incest romance. Womens literature on incest generally treats the theme of maternal absence tragically. Mens literature trivializes it or treats it comically. And clinical literature tends to treat it judgmentally.
Judith Lewis Herman
#7. Because of you, Michael, my heart begins to grow wings.
C. Kennedy
#8. If you can change the way you think in time you will notice a change in your heart and also a change in your life and the way you see things.
The Prolific Penman
#9. I don't want to be a vampire' she told herself. But in her dreams, she kind of did.
Holly Black
#10. Vain, silly creature. Made for loving? Yes, but she'll have no lover, for I don't want her and she'll see no other.
Jean Rhys
#11. Please,Tana,please.' -lots of characters in The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
Holly Black
#12. Keep going' she told herself, 'Don't look back.' But she looked anyways.
Holly Black
#13. She believed being so free with her sexuality was empowering, but I wouldn't say taking home a douchebag who would laugh about the encounter with his friend later is a step forward in the feminist movement.-Lily
Teresa Lo
#14. In a single lifetime, roughly from 1865 to 1930, one finds the pioneering and patterning works of modern fantasy, science fiction, children's literature and detective fiction, of modern adventure, mystery and romance.
Michael Dirda
#15. She wondered which would be worse -- to belong to the group assigned to lifelong drudgery, or to be on the other side, thinking you deserved everything the universe by sheer good luck had tossed in your lap, never realizing your whole life was based on lies.
Jo Victor
#16. In the dream, Tana's mother loved her more than anyone or anything. More than death.
Holly Black
#17. Wine has lit up for me the pages of literature, and revealed in life romance lurking in the commonplace.
Duff Cooper
#19. Shakespeare's bitter play [Troilus and Cressida] is therefore a dramatization of a part of a translation into English of the French translation of a Latin imitation of an old French expansion of a Latin epitome of a Greek romance. (p. 55)
Gilbert Highet
#20. Any connoisseur knows you've got to be drunk to really enjoy a good romance.
Osamu Dazai
#21. I get that. For you, it's more than following a bunch of rules - no sex, no booze, no swear words, pray every night and twice on Sunday.
Laura Anderson Kurk
#22. He pries me from his chest and drops his hand from the back of my head, tracing my ear, along my jawline. He snatches his fingers a moment before they press into my lip.
Rebecca Berto
#23. The reason I write romance is that I like happy endings. The idea, you know, 'It's not literature unless is ends badly,' and I really don't like that. There's enough misery and bad things happening in the world.
Ruth Glick
#24. Living is deeper than just life
Tru Lyfe
#25. His voice had a faint trace of an accent she couldn't place - one that made her pretty sure he was no local kid infected the night before.
Holly Black
#26. How terrible it was to still be mentally and emotionally attached to someone from whom you have been physically separated.
Elif Shafak
#27. To endure the pain of living, we all drug ourselves more or less with gin, with literature, with superstitions, with romance, with idealism, political, sentimental, and moral, with every possible preparation of that universal hashish: imagination.
George Bernard Shaw
#28. Anyone who reads advice books about romance has one problem to begin with: bad taste in literature.
Roger Ebert
#29. Romantic literature is in effect imaginative lying.
Oscar Wilde
#30. Reason is not what decides love.
Moliere
#31. They wanted her. They all loved her. And they wanted to keep her.
Hanna Lui
#32. The trees seemed to have eyes that were watching us and reaching out for me. They began to take on the shape of the dead.
Amber Newberry
#33. You said you were allowed to lose it,' some part of her reminded herself.
'Not yet, not yet.
Holly Black
#34. She took a deep breath, "Last chance. Are you in need of rescuing?"
His expression turned very strange, almost as if she'd struck him, "Yes," he said finally.
Holly Black
#35. The history of the Bible text is a romance of literature, though it is a romance of which the consequences are of vital import; and thanks to the succession of discoveries which have been made of late years, we know more about it than of the history of any other ancient book in the world.
Frederic G. Kenyon
#36. When the moon was high over the moors, Rhineholt became a dark place with long, lonely corridors whose shadows gave breath to many secrets.
Amber Newberry
#37. She was addicted to literature like some people were addicted to heroin.
Allie Burke
#38. Amie frowned. 'That's what I can't figure out. I mean everyone wants their happy ending, right? No one cares about reading actual literature anymore anyway. All they want is vampires and supernatural mumbo-jumbo. It's sick, really.
Jennifer Silverwood
#39. Ah youth, youth! That's what happens when you go steeping your soul into Shakespeare
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#40. Can you blame me, my dear, for looking on this attachment as a romantic folly inspired by that cursed Shakespeare who will poke his nose where he is not wanted?
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#42. Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life.
Charles Frahman
#43. Ari's words felt like drops of sunlight upon my skin, and my frame was burning with longing.
Petra March
#44. Behind Tana there was the sounds of splintering wood, as though something very large had hot the door. "No," she said softly, "Oh no. No."
"Leave me," said Gavriel.
... "Shut up or I might," she told him.
Holly Black
#45. The feeling, all encompassing, safe and warm like a blanket permanently draped over her shoulders, follows her around. She takes it into the shower, to meals with her mother and sister, to work as she reads out the news script, her voice never faltering.
Zainab Omaki
#47. Give her books, where other people did all the running around and courting; it was far easier to read about such matters than to experience them herself.
Sophie Dash
#48. We are all one. Everything is meaningless, and yet at the same time meaningful. Everything matters and doesn't matter just as much, Wisdom said and looked beyond time.(Nakoma, by Gala.J)
Gala.J
#50. All literature, or most literature, is about sex. (A. Burgess)
Blanche Bachelar
#51. If you're going to fall in love with anyone, fall in love with a writer. Allow yourself to become immortalised in words.
Jamie L. Harding
#52. Perfect," he groaned. "You are perfect." He sank his teeth into her ass, hard, drawing blood. "And now you wear my mark," he finished proudly. "Your ass is mine.
Hanna Lui
#54. I think the truth is that finding ourselves brings more excitement and well-being than anything romance has to offer, and somewhere we know that.
Bell Hooks
#56. My novels are in the literature section as opposed to the romance section of bookstores because they're not romance novels. If I tried to have them published as romances, they'd be rejected. I write dramatic fiction; a further sub-genre would classify them as love stories.
Nicholas Sparks
#57. Besides being witty and funny and maybe the best novel ever written, it's also the most perfect romance in all of literature and nothing in life can ever measure up, so I spend my life limping in its shadow.
Shannon Hale
#58. There is grand romance in The Lord of the Rings. It's an important part of epic literature.
Kevin J. Anderson
#59. If you can't focus then how do you expect to make your dreams come true?
The Prolific Penman
#60. Every object strives for its proper place. A book seeks to be near its truest admirer. Just as this helpless moth seeks to be near the candle that infatuates him.
Vikram Seth
#61. I'm the muhfucka that did this to you! If y'all don't know me, you better get to know me, or fuck around and wind up wit' a hole in your forehead.
Brooklyn June
#62. Words, to me, are the same as an instrument is to a musician. I never know where this typewriter is going to take me until I begin. I never know what I'm feeling until I read over what I have written.
Tessa Emily Hall
#63. A little vanilla never hurt anybody." He nipped her ankle. "Great shoes by the way. Sexy as hell.
Hanna Lui
#64. It was a privileged existence, but also a cage, beautifully decorated, but locked tight always.
Amber Newberry
#65. This book is dedicated to every woman who has ever felt self-conscious about her size. Outer beauty comes in all sizes, shapes, heights, ages, and colors. And inner beauty will always shine through, no matter what the packaging.
Raynetta Manees
#66. I've never met anyone as kind as you are, except me Mum, o' course." --Benjamin Trimmel to Lady Alexandra.
Lisa M. Prysock
#67. Young girls think they know what their hearts desire, what they want the most. When really, we know nothing of love, devotion and utter loyalty. Not until we break our own hearts when we learn that what we desire is nothing like what we thought it would be. ~Papercut Doll
Alexia Purdy
#68. I think it's a very old and deep-seated double standard that holds that when a man writes about family and feelings, it's literature with a capital L, but when a woman considers the same topics, it's romance, or a beach book - in short, it's something unworthy of a serious critic's attention.
Jennifer Weiner
#69. Little mouse," a voice said through the keyhole. "Don't you know the more you wriggle, the greater the cat's delight?
Holly Black
#70. Maybe it was that nearly everyone else was dead and she felt a little bit dead too, but she figured that even a vampire deserved to be saved. Maybe she ought to leave him, but she wasn't going to.
Holly Black
#71. But I hate to hear you talking so like a fine gentleman, and as if women were all fine ladies, instead of rational creatures. We none of us expect to be in smooth water all our days.
Jane Austen
