#fiction

For a moment, I’m captivated. He’s seducing me with his eyes. A nervous flutter swims through my stomach. I can feel my heartbeat in my throat. Pounding. Constricting. I swallow hard. ↗

— Lauren Hammond

#teenage-love #young-adult-fiction #love

I can project emotions and feelings onto others. For example, I can make you hungry.” With a slight smile, Anya followed words with action, and the captain’s mouth dropped open as her stomach growled loudly. Salvatore shifted against the desk, a glower darkening his face. “Power of suggestion. Besides, it’s almost lunch.” On impulse, Anya smiled sweetly at him as she retorted, “Should I make you fall in love with me, then?” Anya Vaedrin & Jason Salvatore, from Angels and Ministers of Grace ↗

— Michelle O'Leary

#futuristic-romance #romantic-adventure #science-fiction #scifi #scifi-romance

It wasn't premeditated. It was what needed to be done. So I did it. ↗

— Milly Silver

#exciting #fantasy #milly-silver #sci-fi #ya-action-adventure

We talked to each other as you'd talk to a stranger you'd met while drunk after the barman calls for last orders, sure you wouldn't remember the other's face in the morning. (69) ↗

— Elina Hirvonen

#love

I was hoping against hope he'd refill his Prozac so we could be in love again, but, sadly, that never happened. ↗

— Piper Faust

#fiction #humor #love

Your love of glory must conquer your will to survive; or why fight at all? Why not be a smith, a brewer, a wool merchant? Why are you in the contest, if not to win, and if not to win, then to die? ↗

— Hilary Mantel

#love

There was an image in my mind—an expectation of what it would be like when I finally gave myself fully to a man. It wasn’t like this. It was always at night with candles flickering lazily, music filling the air with a sexy melody, and maybe a bubble bath. But no. It was infinitely better, and there was no froo froo, stereotypical scene that played out. It was incredible. Brilliant. Amazing. Indescribable, really. Like all the planets in the galaxy aligned for a perfect moment in time. As if this was the beginning of time. From now until the rest of eternity, everything finally had meaning. ↗

— Laura Kreitzer

#angels #fantasy #fiction #kreitzer #love

The white lily stands for purity. Artists for centuries have pictured the angel Gabriel coming to the virgin Mary with a spray of lillies in his hand, to announce that she is to be the mother of the Turks. ↗

— Carroll Bryant

#fiction-novel #love #lovers #lovers-love-story #romance

The ocean swells around us. Sometimes, we are in a bowl of water and sometimes on the top of the lip. The horizon curves. We are sitting on top of the world. In theory, anyone is on the top of their world at every moment, given that the Earth is truly round. But, it’s hard to see that in a subway under New York City and completely obvious out here. ↗

— Lexis De Rothschild

#fiction #humor #indie-author #love

His allure, as he stood there, his face, even with the red swollen eyes, everything about him was gorgeous. ↗

— Maryam Schonbeck

#impossible #love #young-adults #love