#roman

I want to take you for pleasure, and hold you in my arms for desire. I want you to know that it is your kiss that I want, not another heir to the throne. You can know that I love you, quite for yourself, when I come to your bed, and not as the York’s broodmare.” I tilt back my head and look at him under my eyelashes. “You think to bed me for love and not for children? Isn’t that sin?” His arm comes around my waist and his palm cups my breast. “I shall make sure that it feels richly sinful,” - Edward IV to Elizabeth Woodville - ↗

— Philippa Gregory

#love #romantic #inspirational

Forgive me for being the stupidest man on the planet?” “Careful. You’re talking about the man I love. ↗

— Sarah Mayberry

#romance #forgiveness

I’ll never forgive myself if I don’t ask this, but knowing everything that you know, do you still want that kiss? ↗

— Daniele Lanzarotta

#mermaid #new-adult-contemporary-romance #forgiveness

Their tongues met, starving, two years without this delicious meal. They kissed and kissed and kissed. The joining of their mouths was more intense than that night on the ferry. This was a kiss of reunion. Of forgiveness. Of coming home. ↗

— Lori Wilde

#forgiveness #home #kiss #love #reunion

I remember every good thing about you. Every sweet and perfect thing. And nothing else.” He touched her chin, tipped it up to look into her wet brown eyes. Even smudged, they were gorgeous. The dawning light in them filled his heart, and healed it. “Nothing else. ↗

— V.S. Carnes

#love #romance #forgiveness

She’s drunk dialing contractors ” Chloe said to Tara. “Someone should stop her. ↗

— Jill Shalvis

#romance-novels #humor

Love is not maximum emotion. Love is maximum commitment. ↗

— Sinclair B. Ferguson

#love #marriage #romance #inspirational

I never thought of it like that. I always thought of you as a part of me, like my own eyes or my own hands. You don't go around thinking 'I love my eyes, I love my hands', do you? But think what it would be like to live without your eyes or your hands. To be mad, or to be blind. I can't talk about it. It's how I feel. ↗

— Elizabeth Marie Pope

#love #romantic #inspirational

... it’s a blessed thing to love and feel loved in return. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#falling-in-love #inspirational #inspirational-love #inspirational-romance #love

Sometimes, when something hurts us, our hearts break a little-in a slightly ... more literal way than for humans. Our pain sort of spills out and onto anyone around us. We call it a cracked heart. ↗

— Brodi Ashton

#romantic #inspirational