#romance

His eyes were cold steel, his mouth fixed in a hard line. "I like my face the way it is," he said icily. "You scar it with your nails as you did my chest and I swear I will give you equal scars. Think about that, Sam, before you use your claws again." Tears sprang to her eyes. "You're cruel, Hank. You leave me nothing." "And what did you leave me when you stole my heart?" he asked softly. She stared back at him, searching his eyes, seeing only naked honesty. ↗

— Johanna Lindsey

#equality

That night as they slept in each other's arms neither Alistair nor Sophia had any nightmares. ↗

— Cristiane Serruya

#love #romance #shared-experiences #experience

A cynic by experience, a romantic by inclination and now a hero by necessity. ↗

— David Gemmell

#hero #romance #experience

Midnight Omen Deja vu" - Because everyone should experience love in the Caribbean...at least once in a lifetime. ↗

— Marti Melville

#deja-vu #historical-fiction #historical-romance #paranormal-romance #pirates

What are you boys doing?” she asks, as if we’re still little kids messing around. “Arguin’,” Carlos says matter-of-factly. ↗

— Simone Elkeles

#humour #romance #young-adult-fiction #young-adult-romance #funny

There's no one else. In my experience, men have one primary use." She let her gaze rove over him suggestively, and the atmosphere shifted from tense to provocative. Hidden terrace lighting played over her features, softening them, and that unrevealing dress dangled the promise of what she'd hidden under it. Then she finished the sentiment. "To move furniture.

— Kat Cantrell

#experience

The last time I wore an animal hide; but this time I settled for this." Eric had been wearing a long trench coat. Now he threw it off dramatically, and I could only stand and stare. Normally, Eric was a blue-jeans-and-T-shirt kind of guy. Tonight, he wore a pink tank top and Lycra leggings[...]They were pink and aqua, like the swirls down the side of Jason's truck. ↗

— Charlaine Harris

#humor #romance #sookie-stackhouse #true-blood #humor

I don't think we get a choice in who we fall for," Ian whispers. "I think we just do. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#romance #faith

There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven: a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot, a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build, a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance, a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them, a time to embrace and a time to refrain, a time to search and a time to give up, a time to keep and a time to throw away, a time to tear and a time to mend, a time to be silent and a time to speak, a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace. (Ecclesiastes 3:1-8, NIV) ↗

— Anonymous

#life #love #romance #scripture #youth

Romance takes place in the middle distance. Romance is looking in at yourself through a window clouded with dew. Romance means leaving things out: where life grunts and shuffles, romance only sighs. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#life