#roman

One minute she was just this woman I worked with, the next, she was this woman I couldn't go an hour without seeing. ↗

— Dominique Eastwick

#curvy-heroine #romance #rubenesque #strong-heroine #family

It's so much easier to convince yourself you're madly in love with someone when you know nothing about him. ↗

— Megan McCafferty

#romance #love

Love is a luxury." "No. Love is an element." An element. Like air to breathe, earth to stand on. ↗

— Laini Taylor

#karou #love #romance #love

To have the opportunity to know your parents is to have the opportunity to truly know yourself. ↗

— Amy Denise

#hardship #love #military #romance #tragedy

It's b******* to think of friendship and romance being different. They're not. They're just variations of the same love. Variatons of the same desire to be close. ↗

— David Levithan

#love #romance #friendship

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 ↗

— Emily Mah Tippetts

#brothers #castles-on-the-sand #fairytale #family #hero

There are plastic bags with zippers on them. I've seen them in commercials," Dragos said to her. He snapped his fingers, trying to remember the name. "You put food in them." "Ziploc bags?" she asked in a cautious voice. He pointed at her. "Yes. I want one. ↗

— Thea Harrison

#romance #thea-harrison #food

This has to be the most self-centered thing I've ever said, but no, I think you just wanted to vex me. ↗

— Julia Quinn

#julia-quinn #romance #humor

You know what I wish? I wish I could put time in a bottle and throw it into the ocean. Then I would have forever to spend with you. I wouldn’t need air to breathe or food to eat. Holding you in my arms would be all the food I would need. Having your love would be the only air I would need to breathe. ↗

— Lynn Austin

#love #romance #food

The first thing I needed, possibly the only thing, was to kiss her and I did, for as long as I could. I let us both breathe for a minute, and I perched her on a counter so I could touch the face I’d missed so much. I poured every bit of frustration, anger, sadness, and worry into that kiss. Meg understood and received it all, pushing her fingers into my hair and giggling against my lips. I didn’t care that anybody passing by could be watching us through the window, or that I could fall right there and sleep for a week. ↗

— Laura Anderson Kurk

#glass-girl #henry-whitmire #high-school #kiss #laura-anderson-kurk