Romance Hero Quotes

#1. I've always said a romance hero can be deeply flawed ... as long as he's willing to rush into a burning building to rescue a basket of kittens.

Teresa Medeiros

#2. He did, in fact, look like a romance hero, all muscles and edges and chiseled bone structure. He also looked miserable.

Marissa Meyer

#3. ...hero or not, he wanted to hold her forever and not let go.

Heidi Glick

#4. Miss Carson, you need to step outside and slap me again. The side you hit is mostly dead. You need to hit the other side of my face so I can feel it like I should.

Lorraine Heath

#5. I can be ruthless, unforgiving, and a manipulative bastard. But I don't play games with sex.

Naima Simone

#6. What are you most scared of?" she asked and I wished she hadn't. I didn't like admitting it.
"I'm scared of dying alone.

Kenya Wright

#7. In the West, audiences think I am a stereotyped action star, or that I always play hitmen or killers. But in Hong Kong, I did a lot of comedy, many dramatic films, and most of all, romantic roles, lots of love stories. I was like a romance novel hero.

Chow Yun-Fat

#8. I will give you my days... but, my dear sorceress, your nights are mine.

Bec McMaster

#9. The more romance novelists that are out there, making romanticized ideas of vampirism for the kids, the more people want to see a real action movie, putting the bad guys where they belong, as the bad guys, and looking for a hero to come along and defend our very souls.

Corey Feldman

#10. Ben was in his truck, window down, idling at the curb, dark lenses hiding his eyes from her, looking effortlessly big and badass.
The way she wished she felt.

Jill Shalvis

#11. When you get down on your knees in front of me it won't be out of gratitude. It'll be because you want to be there."--Ciaran Ross, Killer Curves

Naima Simone

#12. I'm just a man, not a hero. just a boy, who wants to sing this song.

Gerard Way

#13. Looking at someone else's relationship for the answers was like reading about a romance novel hero and expecting to find a carbon copy in real life

Maya Banks

#14. But we all know books are fiction. The romance in novels is a crock of shit. Sometimes the hero still leaves in the end. And the heroine is once again left to pick up the pieces.

K. Bromberg

#15. Guurl. Tell me. Do you keep your hair this long for religious reasons? Like, will you lose your strength if you cut it?--Terry, a member of the glam squad, to Khloe Richardson

Naima Simone

#16. Having a heart that's three sizes too small must be really convenient for business.

Naima Simone

#17. Romance readers love a wealthy hero, and why not? There's value in a man able to hire a helicopter, a coach and six horses, or a collection of werewolves to do his bidding - and the bidding of the lucky woman on his arm.

Sarah MacLean

#18. He smiled and captured my hand ... I attempted to pull my hand away. He tightened his grip just a little and kept my hand encased in his. A warmth spread through to me.

Kenya Wright

#19. Her brain said, he's like a brother to you. Her body rejected that notion absolutely. Her heart was confused as hell.

Joan Kilby

#20. I'm not putting that in my mouth.

Naima Simone

#21. Do not push me," she warned in a shaky voice.

"Och, but I will." He shifted on his booted feet, pushed his hips harder against hers, until she felt a part of the wall. A part of him. "You lifted a blade to me, Katarina. I'm going to push you hard.

Kris Kennedy

#22. Either way, he was always staring into a bottomless pit, or into a whirlpool that forever sucked him inexorably inward to its vortex.

Mary Balogh

#23. It's your hero complex, isn't it? You should see someone about that."
"Right after I get my head examined.

Brynn Kelly

#24. We have an agreement," she explained. "I watch nothing to do with a hobbit, Vulcan, or comic book hero, and in return, Dexter's not forced to sit through a foreign romance, a BBC production, or one my classic films.

Kristin Billerbeck

#25. The way he smiled with just one corner of his mouth said he'd show her a good time if she let him.

Laura Oliva

#26. Thus, she had learned a romance book was fiction. A hero who truly cared for the heroine was called a fantasy.

Cherise Sinclair

#27. Ember was mine. The other half of me. And I would fight Talon, St George, and the entire d world to keep her safe.

Julie Kagawa

#28. If I thought I'd been drawn to her, now I knew, I'd been taken,
kidnapped,
caged,
destroyed,
and all the other things that went with someone having complete power over another.

Kenya Wright

#29. . . . the romantic teenager buried deep inside her was weeping at the perversion of her love story. There was no hero in her romance, and the villain made her feel things that she had never imagined she could experience.

Anna Zaires

#30. And in that moment, he knew one thing. If it was possible to slay his dragons, he'd do it. For her.

Miranda Liasson

#31. But she woke up just then, and in the moonlight covered herself with a blanket. She smiled at him drowsily and called him "Yero, my hero," and that melted his heart.

Gregory Maguire

#32. I'd never saved anyone or anything in my whole life. I didn't like the idea of it. I was nobody's hero. But the alternative option would have been to let Georgie die, so I guess just this once an exception had to be made.

Sarah Darlington

#33. ... she was afraid of how he made her feel, because he made her feel way too much

Justine Dell

#34. If he couldn't appreciate the passion and beauty in you than that's his shame, not yours."--Ciaran Ross, Killer Curves

Naima Simone

#35. I can't imagine a romance novel published today where the hero rapes the heroine and she falls in love with him.

Julia Quinn

#36. I already apologized for that."
"No, you didn't."
"Then I'm sorry.""
"Fuck your sorry."
"Fine. Fuck my sorry.

Kenya Wright

#37. Wild need slipped into his mind as she moaned into his mouth and he fucking loved how greedy she was, but fuck, she was completely wrecking his ability to be easy with her. She was using her power and strength in a way that riled his beast.

Setta Jay

#38. Romance is at the heart of our lives. The truly blessed among us find a hero or heroine of our own to love, then root for our children to do the same.

M.A. Jewell

#39. He placed his hands to his belt buckle and undid it.
Just be careful, Red. This isn't a fairytale. No one will save you, if you decide to see how sharp the wolf's teeth really are.

Kenya Wright

#40. Bragging that you finished in two strokes. Just like a man."--Sloane Barrett, Killer Curves

Naima Simone

#41. You need to acquire a lover, Madam President.

Lynn Raye Harris

#42. So Leola thought that a modest romance with a hero in embryo could do no harm - might even be a patriotic duty.

Robertson Davies

#43. Kiss after wet kiss, he devoured her, almost a full year of pent-up desire
unleashing in one terrible flood.

Miranda Liasson

#44. She loved this man. This wonderful, respectiful, willful man. And she couldn't even tell him.

Justine Dell

#45. I'm begging you, for the love of all that's filthy and wrong in this world, have a good time with tall, dark, and raspy, okay?

Terri L. Austin

#46. A hint of sensual frustration roughened his voice.
And I will curse the gods along with them, Min. Some wild monsoon raged through me as I looked at you just now. It's left me rearranged inside, and I don't have a map.

Tessa Dare

#47. Such a dark green, his eyes. They reminded her of the forest, of all the dangers lying dormant behind that verdant cloak of leaves.

Nenia Campbell

#48. Besides....... who wants a boy? The only boys in our books are the little baby ones the man hero puts inside the heroine.

Alexa Riley

#49. You're a hero and a gentleman, you're kind and honest, but more than that, you're the first man I ever truly loved. And no matter what the future brings, you always will be, and I know that my life is better for it.

Nicholas Sparks

#50. Maybe it was time to cut the strings of everyone's expectations and free-fall for once in her life

Miranda Liasson

#51. Jack watched Tara glide around the dance floor with the best man, a knot of jealousy threatening to strangle him. Just the phrase 'best man' raised his ire. Who had come up with that turn of phrase anyway?

Dawn M. Turner

#52. There's always a price.

Kenya Wright

#53. If you want to make a lie believable, you gotta weave it with the truth."
My brows furrow, confused by the comment. "What?"
"Two truths and a lie, babe," he says. "Makes the lie harder to pick up on.

Ashley Stoyanoff

#54. Every hero is scared. That-s what being brave is about - confronting fear.

Nely Cab

#55. He sounded like he was used to people swearing at him, which made no damned sense, because he was gorgeous and a hero.

Cate Cameron

#56. It's true that romance novels do detail the courtship phase of a relationship. We usually write 'And they lived happily ever after' before our heroine starts snoring or our hero starts tossing his socks over the hamper.

Teresa Medeiros

#57. This possessiveness you've unleashed and decided to toy with isn't tame. Keep that in mind when you poke the beast... If you let anyone touch you, they die.

Setta Jay

#58. You're causing the world to spin again, Keirah," Wharick teased about her druid gift with nature. "You out of control? Do you need something to settle you down? he asked.

Madison Thorne Grey

#59. soft. Her hand was so soft, like cat fur, like bird feathers, like...everything soft he could think of. Her thumb caressing the corner of his mouth and her lips when they first touched his were tentative.

Bonnie Dee

#60. Her taste still teased my tongue, and her touch tipped my fingers. Her smile licked my lips, and her heart beat my own. So I tugged on her sheets, like it was a cape. To me, she was a God damned super hero, and underneath, was everything I need. Her super powers on top of me.

J. Raymond

#61. If I had the right, I would forbid you to go anywhere without me. Not out of selfishness, but because being apart from you is like trying to live without breathing.

Lisa Kleypas

#62. Let me rephrase." He took a seething step toward me. "When it comes to you ... I don't like to share.

Samantha Young

#63. The day is crisp and clear, almost like every other morning he's taken the same walk in the snow, hiking to the forest and back.

M.C. Frank

#64. The war had changed him, inside and out, in ways he could never have fathomed.

Miranda Liasson

#65. I've never felt remorse before. It's disgusting.

Willow Madison

#66. Olivia," he sighed as he held her tight against him. "I like the way you leap."
For once her laughter was free and easy. "And I like the way you catch me when I land.

Marie Force

#67. Fair warning, baby. I'm in the mood for a fight, and I wouldn't play fair or nice.--Niall Hunter to Khloe Richardson

Naima Simone

#68. I've had your kiss. I know what you taste like, and that's only worsened the need. Made me crave more.

Naima Simone

#69. So are you saying I'm your Superman?"

--- Josh Copeland

Dawn Chartier

#70. Please don't say you're sorry, False platitudes of sorrow, of pity, of goddamned praise of being a hero, sicken me.

Dominique Eastwick

#71. If there was anything the last year had taught her - if there was anything Caleb had taught her, the Metigen War had taught her - it was that perspective was everything.

If you wanted to understand your enemy, you must understand that they were the hero in their own story.

G.S. Jennsen

#72. Amantium irae amoris integratio est
A Latin saying that means
Lovers' quarrels are the renewal of love

Janet Aylmer

#73. With his fingers, he followed the shape of her chin, her jaw, and learned her features, committing them to memory. Her face was small, her bones fragile. Exquisite.

Sofia Grey

#74. I am a down-to-earth gentleman who will never, under any circumstances, resemble some sort of romantic hero like Mr Darcy.

Samantha Tonge

#75. The kiss wove between gentle and frenzied, liquid and greedy, silken and primal, and he sucked every second of bliss he could from the forbidden pleasure.

Jami Gold

#76. She held her hand out in front of her. "Wait."
"No," I groaned and then cleared my throat. "I mean okay, I can wait.

Kenya Wright

#77. She'd been right back at the boutique. He was like the hero of a romance story, and he was trying to rescue his beloved. His alpha. Cress

Marissa Meyer

#78. I want to corrupt you, get dirty and rough with you because I know this sexy-as-hell body can take it."--Ciaran Ross, Killer Curves

Naima Simone

#79. The silence stretched out between us as I stared at him, the tears blurring my vision as I waited for him to save me from this torment. Surely he could find a way.

Kathryn Michaels

#80. Francis Ford Coppola - A man climbs a mountain and they call him a hero. I climb mountains that aren't even there.

Madeline Moore

#81. An arrow isn't the only thing I shoot straight. If you ever come near my wife, you'll be hauled off in a body bag.

Lucy McConnell

#82. Everyone knew the hero in any good romance had to have his fair share of experience. If he didn't, how was he going to be a good teacher, showing his lady love how to give him pleasure at the same time giving her more than she'd ever dreamed?

Kristen Ashley

#83. I am not a hero. Heroes do not cheat.

Elizabetta Holcomb

#84. No, but I imagine there's a gun tucked away somewhere on your body. And I know what you can do with that, hotshot."
He took a step toward her. "With what, sweetheart? With the gun? Or the body?

Lynn Raye Harris

#85. You're a sex symbol," she began.
"Thanks for noticing.

Karina Bliss

#86. Her heart unfolded in her chest, took in all of him, and closed tightly, unwilling to let him go

Justine Dell

#87. Here's to real heroes, not the ones who carry us off into the sunset but the ones who help us choose our princes. - commentary on Castles on the Sand

E.M. Tippetts

#88. You seriously have a Dalmatian? Is that, like, mandatory for a firefighter?

Dawn Altieri

#89. Lots of men would love to
Fuck you silly. The words just popped into his mind. Jesus. Where had that come from?

Joan Kilby

#90. Here's the thing about romance novels: The moment when the hero and heroine discover that they're perfect for each other is often the moment when it's them against the world.

Sarah MacLean

#91. God. He was an eye-gasm if she ever saw one.

Kelly Moran

#92. You. Aren't you one of those Morgan boys? You must be the bad one.

Teri Anne Stanley

#93. Sweetheart, I have no intention of denying you a thing.

Rebecca Brooks

#94. Readers will stand up and cheer for Karen Fox's Prince of Charming! Finally, a heroine who's a real woman. Finally, a hero who knows what a rare find she is! Finally, a book for us all to adore! Thank you Karen Fox for creating the most lovable hero romance has seen in a long, long time!

Maggie Shayne

#95. He had golden-brown hair, the most vivid baby-blue eyes, and a body that belonged on the cover of Men's Health magazine. Her gaze roamed over his broad shoulders and down his chest.

Lia Davis

#96. His presence was stirring heat in all the wrong places and for all the wrong reasons.

Justine Dell

#97. With a quick twist to her heart, Cress's fear of him began to subside. She'd been right back at the boutique. He was like the hero of a romance story, and he was trying to rescue his beloved. His alpha.

Marissa Meyer

#98. Off-limits or not, she was beautiful. The type of beautiful he could fall for.

Dawn Altieri

#99. I see a man," she said softly. "A man with the roar of cannons still ringing in his ears. A man bloodied by life, but not beaten. A man with a scar that draws his mouth into a frown when he might actually long to smile.

Teresa Medeiros

#100. What's bothering me is you always seem ready to snap my head off my shoulders and I'm not comfortable with that.

Justine Dell