Quotes About Romantic Novels

#1. The first six months are what I call the La La Land phase. This is what a lot of romantic novels, songs, and movies are based upon. Enjoy the courtship, nights out, and fun. You will eventually come back to reality.

Pamela Cummins

#2. My mother was a reader; my father was a reader. Not anything particularly sophisticated. My mother read fat historical or romantic novels; my father liked to read Westerns, Zane Grey, that kind of stuff. Whatever they brought in, I read.

John Edgar Wideman

#3. I thought that love at first sight was something that was only in cheesy movies and romantic novels until that moment.

Shannon A. Thompson

#4. Romantic novels, the kissing scenes, the ditching scenes have taught the youth of India more English than all the English classes in school combined.

Sneha Mehta

#5. All romantic novels end the same way, but it's the process of getting there that provides all the enjoyment.

Candice Hern

#6. I used to think that those essentially happy and romantic novels that ended with a wedding were all wrong, that they had left out the most interesting part of the story.

Lorrie Moore

#7. The man she wanted existed only in the romantic novels she was reading. She had met him. But he would never meet her.

Mary Papas

#8. Lips that have tasted the salt of tears always give the sweetest kiss.

C.J. Carlyon

#9. All Jane Austen novels have a common storyline: an attractive and virtuous young woman surmounts difficulties to achieve marriage to the man of her choice. This is the age-long convention of the romantic novel, but with Jane Austen, what we have is Mills & Boon written by a genius.

P.D. James

#10. I rock in his arms under the stars and the blanket of night air, unwilling or unable to tear myself away.

Lisa Daily

#11. I always thought 'chick lit' meant third-person contemporary funny novels, dealing with issues of the day. I mean, it's not the ideal term; when I'm asked to describe what I do, I say I write romantic comedies, cause that's what I feel they are. But I'm quite pragmatic.

Sophie Kinsella

#12. They did it quite a lot after that first encounter" ... when Jill remembers first meeting the dashing Baron.

Lisa McKnight

#13. The moon is too old, the flower is too old;even the sunset is not enough. The only relevant metaphor for you is your mirror image.

Amit Kalantri

#14. I read what I like to write: romantic suspense. I also love thrillers and novels of suspense, but I can't handle extreme violence and torture.

Jayne Ann Krentz

#15. Her insides began to roar with a ferocious explosion of sensation and entitlement. For a moment, her thinking mind know this was what male and females were put on earth to do.

Lisa McKnight

#16. The dark sky seemed to swallow the moon, as Samantha stood alone on the deserted highway.

Grace Willows

#17. I gotta go but... I miss you. That's all."
"I miss you too", I say hugging my body tightly with the sleeves of his shirt.
This... Is falling.

Ginger Scott

#18. I'm a hopeful romantic who adores novels with happy endings, because there are enough sad endings in real life.

Tammara Webber

#19. I read too many romance novels during my formative years. I have a penchant for romantic comedies. I understand why 'Romeo and Juliet' came to such a pass.

Roxane Gay

#20. ... I suppose that it is not so easy to go home and it takes a bit of time to make a son out of a stranger.

Albert Camus

#21. We don't tend to write about disease in fiction - not just teen novels but all American novels - because it doesn't fit in with our idea of the heroic romantic epic. There is room only for sacrifice, heroism, war, politics and family struggle.

John Green

#22. Just as "normal" as anyone... only I write my thoughts out on paper & illustrate a world of Romance in your mind as you read my creations. ~ A. L. Woodz

Angel L. Woodz

#23. I feel like I'm twenty again.

Elizabeth Horton-Newton

#24. Mary approaches her before she is able to reach her station. "Hello Lily. Get anything special for Christmas?"
"Just the usual." She answers. "Shattered dreams.

Carroll Bryant

#25. I am a hopeful romantic. - Charlotte, In the Shadow of Angels

Fanny Lee Savage

#26. Let me in, Emily, and I swear to you that you'll never regret it.
Ethan Sterling in Private Emotions

Elize Amornette

#27. I'm jealous of the cherries that have been in your mouth," he said, "that they get to make your lips so red." He kissed her softly, teasing her tongue with his, a lustful wet caress, and Austen was suspended in air. "I'm jealous of every single day before today that I didn't get to spend with you.

C.J. Carlyon

#28. If sleep wasn't necessary, I would have used those 8 hours just to gaze at you.

Amit Kalantri

#29. Do you have one where you're riding a horse or a camel? Or sitting on a rocket ship? Those are always wildly popular with men looking for sex.
- SINGLE-MINDED

Lisa Daily

#30. Hot damn. Cue the violins and happy cartoon bunnies. I was in the middle of a Disney moment. Because this guy was gorgeous. And we were standing so close to each other. If he hadn't been holding onto a barely contained rage directed at yours truly, it could have almost been construed as romantic.

A Meredith Walters

#31. It's a mistake to act as though we're not created equal.
It's another mistake not to correct the first one.
Blaming others nurtures failure.
Helping others reaps a share of their success.

L. Anthony

#32. Love is waiting, just around the corner, over the hill...

Virginia Alison

#33. I feared that if I let him, it would be the final push over a ledge I had been precariously hovering on since the day I had first laid eyes on him.

Nicole R. Locker

#34. We're all just animals. That's all we are, and everything else is just an elaborate justification of our instincts. That's where music comes from. And romantic poetry. And bad novels.

Elvis Costello

#35. You don't get one chance at life but many over one lifetime.

Elize Amornette

#36. I linger too long in his embrace; the night is so warm, the rocking of the boat so lulling, I have to stop myself from swaying to the music. Daniel smells really good - a masculine cocktail of saltwater, citrus, and probably just full-on testosterone.

Lisa Daily

#37. You are all I ever need.

T.S. Krupa

#38. He didn't pick her; you don't choose who you fall in love with any more than you choose the shape of your bones.

C.J. Carlyon

#39. He kisses me like he misses me, even before I have to go.

C.J. Carlyon

#40. Would I always look back on this moment with regret, no matter which choice I made?

Nicole R. Locker

#41. She knew with chilling and absolute certainty she was next.

Alexa Grace

#42. Jax, I don't know if I can do this," I murmured.
"Do what?" he asked.
I though for a moment as he watched me in silence. "Survive you," I whispered in answer.
"Maybe you won't have to...

Nicole R. Locker

#43. It was early spring, 326 BC, in the beautiful city of Chersonesus protected by a haunting deep blue sea and a giant wall. Today was the second day of the Festival of Dionysus.

Destin Bays

#44. Well, I did tell you I couldn't give you a thing. Maybe you've just realised that Alistair can give the god damn world, and the pleasure of kissing his shiny slap-head every day!

LeeAnn Whitaker

#45. I want to be the star in your diary" -Shawn, Fade to White

N.L. Churney

#46. It is more than love, barely less than madness. It's never close enough.

C.J. Carlyon

#47. I may have loved to read my romance and smut novels, but I was not blinded by the 'fiction' part of it all. I knew the difference between what was real and what came from a hopeless romantic's imagination.

Christine Zolendz

#48. Romance novels satisfy a very specific fantasy of romantic love that seems to be a powerful part of the female psyche.

Melissa Pritchard

#49. She was the wish of his life. He didn't know how else to say it. He didn't even know that he could really explain, just that every time he saw her he felt his bones might break under the weight of his wanting. His longing for her.

C.J. Carlyon

#50. They still had sexual relations with another, slept in the same bed, shared kisses and intimacy and matrimonial fluid, however both were not married to each other in that sense, although there was a piece of paper that said otherwise.

Keira D. Skye

#51. You'll have to fall in love at least once in your life, or Paris has failed to rub off on you.

E.A. Bucchianeri

#52. I am a mathematician and I can confidently say that the best figure ever produced is your phone number.

Amit Kalantri

#53. I'm saying I love you, Cami. All of that was as real for me as it was for you. I'm asking if you'll stick this out beside me. I'm willing to lose my badge and even be dishonorably discharged if that's the case. I just don't want to lose you.

Lacey Weatherford

#54. She swore she'd never turn into her P.I. father...but that was before she ran over the body.

Lida Sideris

#55. Admittedly, they [(places in novels)] didn't all have such ridiculous names as the ones in the Piddle Valley where her father's group of parishes was centered. It would have been hard to make credible a romantic fiction set in Farleigh Piddle, Middle Piddle, Nether Piddle and Piddle Dummer.

Val McDermid

#56. The blinking of eyes is an involuntary reflex action, provided they eyes are not watching your beauty.

Amit Kalantri

#57. I love you to the moon and bed.

C.J. Carlyon

#58. I would rather be destroyed by you than loved by anyone else.

C.J. Carlyon

#59. One should not chug an entire glass of wine at an elegant dinner party. I start hacking and coughing, having practically water-boarded myself out of sheer humiliation.

Lisa Daily

#60. I was where my heart held out hope that someday I would be again. It was the reason I never forgot him. My heart had held onto him. And as he clung to me, as he soothed me, held me, I felt everything begin to relax.

Rebecca Ethington

#61. Helena had been standing by her window looking out to sea, breathing in the fresh air and admiring the picturesque scene of a small ship sailing into the harbor.
She had not been able to think of anything other than Mikolas for days.
From LONGING the 3rd chapter of TRUE LOVE

Destin Bays

#62. Children have always liked the princess story, but they never knew what was her name. I think the princess was, is and will always be you.

Amit Kalantri

#63. She didn't deserve me. She deserved a hell of a lot better than me, but so help me, I wasn't good enough of a man to just let her go.

Nicole R. Locker

#64. Don't you worry, darlin'," he says, his intensely blue eyes full of mischief. "I like surprises

Lisa Daily

#65. Everyone lies about writing. They lie about how easy it is or how hard it was. They perpetuate a romantic idea that writing is some beautiful experience that takes place in an architectural room filled with leather novels and chai tea.

Amy Poehler

#66. If I have only one coin left in the world, I will buy a rose to propose to you.

Amit Kalantri

#67. If beauty had religious and spiritual importance, there would have been your temples all around the world.

Amit Kalantri

#68. I bought a selection of short, romantic fiction novels, studied them, decided that I had found a formula and then wrote a book that I figured was the perfect story. Thank goodness it was rejected.

Louise Brown

#69. After these three novels I gave up writing novels for a time; I was dissatisfied with romantic doom, yet didn't see much way around it.

Nicholas Mosley

#70. Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus. Where are Angels like you are from?

Amit Kalantri

#71. I think of you only twice a day - when I am alone and when I am with someone else.

Amit Kalantri

#72. I love coming back into Chersonesus in the afternoon; the city is lit up by the sun beginning to set. The sound of the water rushing past the hull, and the sky is as blue as Helena's eyes."
"Did I hear a woman's name?

Destin Bays

#73. Well, that explains the dreamy accent. And why transvestites would make him feel homesick.
- SINGLE-MINDED

Lisa Daily

#74. Live today. You never know when tomorrow will be a day too late.

Rochelle Carlton

#75. In material things, there are seven wonders; in human beings there is only one wonder - and that's you.

Amit Kalantri

#76. Dance, cher?" he asks, his blue eyes playful. I nod and he pulls me gently into his arms. He's warm. We sway to the music and the gentle rocking of the boat. His hand rests on the small of my back, in that sweet spot that makes you feel feminine and protected and adored all at once.

Lisa Daily

#77. She was the kind of woman a person could die over or kill over.

Jacqueline Simon Gunn

#78. Some say romance novels are pure fantasy because of that happy ending, but the truth is that romantic love is everyday magic and happy endings happen every minute. Falling in love is one of the core elements of the human condition; it touches us all.

Sylvia Day

#79. Have you thought about what will happen when you start living the life that's right for you, instead of the one you promised to live for someone else?

Tamara Lush