#novels

I can see the stars in your eyes from a mile away. They guide me to you just like the North Star.” Then he bent his head and kissed her – a long, sweet kiss under moonbeams that caressed them both lovingly. ↗

— Kelly Curry

#contemporary #love #romance-novels #romances #contemporary-romance

Sometimes I used to think that one day i should wake up, and all that had been would be over. forgotten, sunk, drowned. Nothing was sure - not even memory. ↗

— Erich Maria Remarque

#romance-novels

I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with a lot of helium. ↗

— Lynn Abbey

#century #dense #filled #helium #i

I didn't know anything about Opus Die except from pop culture, like Dan Brown novels, which I knew wasn't really knowing anything about Opus Die. ↗

— Wes Bentley

#anything #brown #culture #dan #die

I had bohemian parents in Seattle in the last '60s living in a houseboat. My dad wrote science fiction novels and painted big murals and oil paintings. ↗

— Rainn Wilson

#bohemian #dad #fiction #had #i

Novels institutionalize the ruse of eros. It becomes a narrative texture of sustained incongruence, emotional and cognitive. It permits the reader to stand in triangular relation to the characters in the story and reach into the text after the objects of their desire, sharing their longing but also detached from it, seeing their view of reality but also its mistakenness. It is almost like being in love. ↗

— Anne Carson

#desire #eros #eros-the-bittersweet #literature #novels

Give me agony or give me death, I'll take thy heart as eternal breath ↗

— Nely Cab

#romance-novels #teens #young-adult #death

It is impossible to fall out of love. Love is such a powerful emotion, that once it envelops you it does not depart. True love is eternal. If you think that you were once in love, but fell out of it, then it wasn't love you were in. There are no 'exit' signs in love, there is only an 'on' ramp. -Unknown ↗

— Lysious

#love #romance-novels #true-love #death

There is nothing crazy about a dream. There is nothing crazy about pursuing your dreams. ↗

— Destin Bays

#dreams #pursuit-of-happiness #true-love-in-time #dreams

His gaze slid over me like a veil of fire. He could ignite my deepest desires with a single glance. I decided right then and there no more reading romance novels by candelight. ↗

— Darynda Jones

#romance-novels #humor