#roman

You take my heart with you, my loving captor." "Nay, Madelyne. I am your captive in body and soul. ↗

— Julie Garwood

#julie-garwood #romance #love

Do you really want to put yourself through this? Is loving me really enough to endure everything you have to just to be with me?" Meeting his fiery gaze, I ran my fingers through his hair, kissed him gently before I attempted to set us both free. "It will always be enough. ↗

— Rachael Wade

#fantasy-romance #paranormal-romance #love

Why do yo keep doing this?" "Because I've wanted to be with you for three years, okay? That's why. ↗

— Mandy Hubbard

#romantic #love

Emma turned to him, bottom lip trembling. “For me?” “Always for you. All things for you. He coughed into his fist “All your own. ↗

— Kresley Cole

#paranormal #romance #romantic #love

To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope. ↗

— Anne Carson

#desire #eros-the-bittersweet #hope #love #romance

The morning will come In the press of every kiss, With your head upon my chest Where I will annoy you With every waking breath Until you decide to wake up. ↗

— Coheed and Cambria

#romance #love

To love someone with all of your heart requires reaching them where they are with the only words they can understand. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#romance #soulmates #love

Why have you been staring at me ever since we met? Because I’m not the Gail Wynand you’d heard about. You see, I love you. And love is exception-making. If you were in love you’d want to be broken, trampled, ordered, dominated, because that’s the impossible, in the inconceivable for you in your relations with people. That would be the one gift, the great exception you’d want to offer the man you loved. But it wouldn’t be easy for you. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#love #romance #romance-novels #love

He stood in the doorway with his hands in his pockets, the picture of nonchalance, and even as a human, he was too gorgeous for words. His dark hair had been combed back, falling softly around his face, and his mercury eyes, though they should've seemed pale against all the white, glimmered more brightly than anything. And they were fixed solely on me. ↗

— Julie Kagawa

#love

I knew right then you were the only one for me." He pulled her hand from his face, kissed her palm, then pressed it flat against his chest. "Beatings, battles, fights. No matter how bleak the circumstance, no matter how my soul despaired ... this heart never once gave up." His voice deepened, went thick with emotion. "I've a theory as to why. Do you want to hear it?" She nodded. "This heart is yours. It's yours," he said. "It always will be. ↗

— Tessa Dare

#meant-to-be #romance #love