#romance

You’re my friend,” Chris whispered back, and his other hand came up so he could rub Xander’s lower lip with his thumb. “That makes you beautiful. ↗

— Amy Lane

#beauty

The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if not to history? ↗

— Katharine Anthony

#go #history #lovers #romance #satisfaction

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

Soft sun shone down on a misty cathedral at the opposite end of a football-field length courtyard. The cathedral had a long pointed tower with beautiful rose and ivory stained glass windows. Pink-petal flowers and deep green ivy climbed the stones from the ground to it’s roof. A large fountain stood in the middle of the courtyard with water falling from several lion’s heads. Between the misty air and rolling slope of the earth, the grounds reminded me of a long lost fairy tale. ↗

— Priya Ardis

#coming-of-age #e-books #ebooks #fairy-tales #heroic-fantasy

Death is around everyone’s corner, people try to run and hide from it, but it al-ways catches up with them. Like a bad scene from a horror movie. Death stalks you like a lion, waiting for just the right moment to attack. You can run but sooner or later you’ll trip and death will devour you. Did anyone know the secret to outrun death? No one that lived to tell about it, that’s saying something right? ↗

— Holly Hood

#death

I'm not real good at romance. ↗

— Jeff Bridges

#i #real #romance

the unexpected moment [is] always sweeter. ↗

— Julia Quinn

#love-story #quote #romance #the-viscount-who-loved-me #true

She was young and very beautiful, but pale, like the grey pallor of death. ↗

— Bram Stoker

#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

I'm a feminist, but I think that romance has been taken away a bit for my generation. ↗

— Emma Watson

#been #bit #feminist #generation #i