Top 75 Romantic Mystery Quotes
#1. Unlike typical romantic comedies, Definitely Maybe is not formulaic or predictable and it spans a decade while being set against a political background. Also, the audience doesn't know who ends up with who until the very end, which makes it a sort of "romantic mystery comedy".
Isla Fisher
#2. I've seen plays that are, objectively, total messes that move me in ways that their tidier brethren do not. That's the romantic mystery of great theater. Translating this ineffability into printable prose is a challenge that can never be fully met.
Ben Brantley
#4. I'd rather be stung to death by a bunch of piss ants. ~Synola Harper, You're Busting My Nuptials
Ann Everett
#5. My eyes meet his and I understand exactly what he's saying. He's my person. He's my home.
Jennifer Walkup
#6. The dark sky seemed to swallow the moon, as Samantha stood alone on the deserted highway.
Grace Willows
#7. She struggled with all her might, but he was much too heavy and strong.
With a sigh, Amelia finally said, "You win. How can I defend myself in a situation like this?"
"That's a good question."
With a satisfied grin, he got to his feet and said, "I'll show you.
Linda Weaver Clarke
#8. Louisiana has a larger alligator population than any other state. Just over a million."
"Over a million!" exclaimed Amelia with astonishment.
Linda Weaver Clarke
#9. You've got to admit that you live at the center of a vortex that seems to funnel nothing but trouble your way." ~FBI Special Agent Clive Poole to Maggie Mae Castro
Beth Yarnall
#10. I feel like I've been ironing all day in high heels and no brassiere. ~Tizzy Donovan, Laid Out and Candle Lit
Ann Everett
#11. Nat," he whispered and lowered his head.
Her heart missed a beat as his soft mouth brushed against hers. Then his lips were atop hers, firmly, his tongue sliding against them.
Donna Grant
#12. She shot him a look she thought he might still remember, the same one a rattler gives right before it strikes.
B. J. Daniels
#13. I'm concerned about the woman you're holding prisoner in there," Beckett said. "Knock three times if you're being held against your will."
Phoebe gasped and answered, "I'm fine, too."
"Good." Beckett said with a chuckle. "I was afraid I'd have to call the cops on my cop brother.
Elle James
#14. Live life to the fullest and never forget the people that supported you along the way.
Dorothy W. Cosey
#15. Hud? Back here? Oh, man, what a birthday present," Hilde said, giving her another hug. "I'm so sorry, sweetie. I can imagine what seeing him again did to you."
"I still want to kill him," Dana whispered.
"Not on your birthday." Hilde frowned.
B. J. Daniels
#17. Brick stood silhouetted against the frozen lake through this front window. "Be careful. It sounds like you've got at least one killer out there. Someone who thought they'd gotten away with murder. It's easier to kill after the first time, they say.
B. J. Daniels
#18. He leaned in close, his mouth near her ear. "Dance with me.
Donna Grant
#19. I want more than last night. I want you.
Donna Grant
#20. Hey Shelly, you're looking at me like I'm from another planet. What's wrong?"
"Nothing's wrong. Bubbles sold me alien abduction insurance. I haven't got a care in the world.
Meryl Sawyer
#22. Nothing woke up a man as quickly in the morning as a scorpion in his pants.
Dana Marton
#23. Look at me, Nat. I won't bite."
There was a long pause before he said, "Hard.
Donna Grant
#24. 'I have nothing to offer you but a lifetime's worth of failures and misfortune,' Sergio said with damp eyes,
'but they are yours if you want them.'
And for some reason buried deep in the incomprehensible mystery that is woman, she did want them. Very much.
Josh Wagner
#25. He met her challenging gaze. "You really have no idea what is good for you," he said as he caged her against the side of the pickup with a hand on each side of her.
I used to think you would be good for me," she said quietly, her voice rough with emotion.
B. J. Daniels
#26. Tallie looked for something to throw, but considering the fact that she threw like a girl, she dumped that plan in lieu of grabbing her new iron and swinging it like a bowling ball between the bad man's legs, where it connected with a nauseating _thunk_.
Stephanie Bond
#27. As much as I'm turned on by your buff, sexy body pressing against mine, if you could please roll off of me, I'll get my guns.
Alexa Grace
#28. If you lift the romantic element out of my plots, you still have fully formed mysteries. In the same fashion, if you pull the mystery out of a historical romance, you are left with a perfectly satisfying story.
Deanna Raybourn
#29. 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
#30. The best part of falling in love is the mystery and excitement of not knowing. The worst part of falling in love is the mystery and agony of not knowing.
Gayle Hayes
#31. Amelia? Let's make sure we set some time aside every day for one another. We shouldn't bring our work home with us. Okay?"
She smiled. "Deal!
Linda Weaver Clarke
#32. My life of crime began at seven twenty-eight this morning."
~ Charmaine Digby
Wendy Delaney
#33. I play to win and if it looks like I've lost, its only because its not over yet.
Kiera Dellacroix
#34. Anonymity crowned him as if t'were the halo of romantic glory.
Emmuska Orczy
#35. Perhaps the palms had been whispering warnings in the sultry breeze.
T.L. Parker
#36. You're my hero," he murmured.
She grinned up at him. "What a coincidence. You're _my_ hero.
Stephanie Bond
#37. The blank sheet stares up at me, its emptiness like a slap. Those were the last words Ginny ever wrote before she and her family were murdered.
Jennifer Walkup
#38. These chocolates made you close your eyes and moan and were right up there with sex. Well, not sex with Hud. Nothing could beat that.
B. J. Daniels
#39. She swore she'd never turn into her P.I. father...but that was before she ran over the body.
Lida Sideris
#40. She wondered, would their relationship gradually turn into something more? ... Time would tell!
Linda Weaver Clarke
#42. You have a very attractive revenge streak in you. I like it. A lot." ~Maggie Mae Castro to FBI Special Agent Clive Poole
Beth Yarnall
#43. What exactly does the I in FBI stand for?" ~Maggie Mae Castro
Beth Yarnall
#44. The terror is trapped inside of him and paralyzes him. He closes his eyes again and tries to drown out the scream - but it keeps ringing and ringing and ringing in his ears.
Suneeta Misra
#45. She would not have another man push her aside like some appetizer, there to wet his whistle only to be left once the main dish arrived.
No more. She pushed her thumb into his throat a little harder.
Jacqueline Simon Gunn
#46. Good morning, Amelia" greeted Rick as he walked into the room the next morning. "I'm starved. For some reason, I woke up craving strawberries.
Linda Weaver Clarke
#47. And when whatever happened in that barn happened, it was a moment I'll never forget. Like a missing key slid into a dusty old lock. Click. My world opened.
Jennifer Walkup
#48. I was beginning to agree with the thesis that some truths were better off dead.
And buried.
Simona Panova
#49. What's for dinner?"
"Roast beef. I heard it was a woman's body buried on Hamilton Ranch and that her body had been mummified."
"Roast beef and mummified should never be used in the same sentence," he joked as he headed toward the refrigerator for a beer.
B. J. Daniels
#50. He held up his hand, and in it was ...
Oh, God.
The neon-pink vibrator, glowing in the dark now. It was following her, stalking her, all the way down the yellow brick road to hell.
Jill Shalvis
#51. There was something romantic about all of it, in the way he cradled my cheek when his mouth returned to mine and whispered my name like I was some kind of mystery he'd never be able to figure out.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#52. Romantic fiction, in the broader sense, can be any novel that has a love story somewhere in it. It can be a mystery or a historical novel, as long as it has this very strong romantic thread running through it.
Susanna Kearsley
#53. If I call him back here," Cooper whispered in her ear, "will you crawl up my body again?
Jill Shalvis
#54. Audubon considered it a bad day if he didn't shoot a hundred birds. "It's amazing that his name has become synonymous with conservation.
Meryl Sawyer
#55. Morning, ma'am. I'm looking for Tommy Mason. Is he around?" Polite and professional, that was Senior Agent Broussard.
"Lord, what's that no-good sonofabitch done now? Wait, you ain't a cop; you're a game warden. "What'd he do, run over a fish?
Susannah Sandlin
#56. How about I kiss you so we can get past this awkwardness?
Stephanie Bond
#57. I would love to write a mystery - a romantic, funny mystery.
Cecelia Ahern
#58. Did you mean what you said before? About the dead hanging around? You really believe it?
Jennifer Walkup
#59. These were not the belongings of the past prisoner he had imagined. These were a lady's things - hairpins and stockings and a glove. There were more clues waiting but William no longer felt certain he wanted to know the dark secrets of this cell.
Gwenn Wright
#60. What a voice. Deep, throaty, but not in a sexy way. In a haunted way. A voice full of heartbreak and ghosts.
I won't go back, I won't go home,
'Cause in this place, the dead still roam,
'Cause this time, Whiskey Bayou won't let me go.
Susannah Sandlin
#61. I haven't always been a patient man ... but something tells me you'd be worth the wait.
Sam Langley
#62. She tried to shriek for help, to cry out against the blinding agony, but her mouth wouldn't open. The scream stalled in her throat and she gagged. Oh my God. She couldn't move her lips. She couldn't say one word.
Meryl Sawyer
#63. A lot of good the door did. The man's pheromones oozed through the keyhole and the crack underneath the panelled wood.
Stephanie Bond
#64. Brody McTavish. Harper grimaced in embarrassment. She'd been half in love with him as far back as she could remember. Not that he had looked twice at her. He'd been the handsome rowdy teen she used to spy on from a distance.
B. J. Daniels
#65. Great. This girl was going to seriously mess with my ability to stay on parole. ~Maggie Mae Castro
Beth Yarnall
#67. Pooley the realist pooh-poohed such notions, but Pooley the mystic, dreamer and romantic sensed the aura of pagan mystery which surrounded the crop-headed man.
Robert Rankin
#68. It is the Valley of Fear, the Valley of Death. The terror is in the hearts of the people from the dusk to the dawn. Wait, young man, and you will learn for yourself.
---Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Donna Cummins
#69. She had no doubt the man would kill her. Stupid things went skating through her mind
she'd never told her mother how much she loved her chocolate cupcakes ... or Felicia what a kind friend she'd been ... or Keith that it was cool and mature that he owned a house, even if it was in Brooklyn.
Stephanie Bond
#70. What is your secret? What could you possibly know, more than 80 years after you death, that someone doesn't want us to find out?
Jennifer Walkup
#71. I look away, but we've caught each other. And I know this wasn't just a ghost story to him, even if it was to the others.
Jennifer Walkup
#72. He'd been trying to save this woman in his dreams for years. Now here she was, all grown up, and he still felt helpless.
B. J. Daniels
#73. Only the ocean kept the same rhythm. Crashing in and slowly pulling back out, it never lied, never changed. It tried to teach them a life of romantic consistency.
Lawren Leo
#74. I am a die-hard romantic at heart and love the idea of love. But, when it comes to love, I kinda believe in the old world charm of romance - where there's mystery and intrigue.
Esha Gupta
#75. Do you remember that old song? 'She wore an itsy bitsy, teeny weeny, yellow polka dot bikini ...
Linda Weaver Clarke
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