#romance

[bookcover:Lessons Learned|13578440] Another shot, and for some reason, I’m the only one who can’t move. Who can’t scream. Who can’t do anything but watch as the young man’s body slumps over his tray. Finally, I find my voice and scream his name. ↗

— Sydney Logan

#drama #family #love #romance #family

He loves me. Inside his head, his every thought and reaction was born of love, love inside and out, crazy, irrational (and sure, a bit lustful) love. He loves me, and that's also what terrified him when he saw me all lit up like a Christmas tree. He doesn't know what I am, but he loves me. ↗

— Cynthia Hand

#love

Surely--But I am very off from that. From surely. From indeed. From the decent arrow that was my clean naivete and my faith. This morning, men deliver wounds and death. They will deliver death and wounds tomorrow. And I doubt all. You. Or a violet. ↗

— Gwendolyn Brooks

#romance #war #death

But he was here. In my bed. His body warm and hard and feeling so much like home that I ached. ↗

— Julie Bale

#new-adult-contemporary-romance #the-stillness-of-you #beauty

I will never forget experiencing Venice for the first time. It feels like you are transported to another time - the art, music, food and pure romance in the air is like no other place. ↗

— Elizabeth Berkley

#another #another time #art #experiencing #feels

Her father was an intimidating man who held fast to his belief in his African heritage; that black should not marry white to avoid racial confusion. She was in love with a white man whose mother wished to keep her family's heritage intact by not crossbreeding with another race. ↗

— Katherine Vogel

#bwwm #interracial-romance #family

The stars twinkled above him brilliantly, representing all of the beautiful laws of the universe. ↗

— Keira D. Skye

#young-adult-fiction #young-adult-novels #young-adult-romance #beauty

And you… do you know what you are?” “Stupid?” “Beautiful,” he says, his face turning red. ↗

— Elizabeth Scott

#teenagers #young-adult #young-adult-romance #beauty

He stepped into her line of sight and brushed the robe aside to press a tender kiss on her scarred breast. “They are part of you. I think you are beautiful with them.” “I’m not perfect like other shifters.” “I don’t want perfect because it doesn’t exist in any species. ↗

— Lia Davis

#lia-davis #magick #paranormal-romance #romance #shapeshifter

How many more times would I have embraced him that night, how many more times would I have kissed him, if I had known the name of that stranger lover who was already in Montreal, who had already bought his stadium ticket from a scalper for the 5,000 tomorrow. That implacable lover who was going to turn Billy's eyes away from me forever. ↗

— Patricia Nell Warren

#foreshadowing #gay #life #love #romance