Romance Novel Quotes

• If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.

  A. A. Milne

  Love, Friendship, Birthday

  "Winnie-the-Pooh: The House at Pooh Corner". Book by A. A. Milne, 1928.

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• The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

  Jane Austen

  Inspirational, Funny, Stupid

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.460, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.

  Emily Bronte

  Love, Romantic, Passion

  'Wuthering Heights' (1847) ch. 9

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• In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.

  Jane Austen

  Love, Romantic, Funny Relationship

  Jane Austen (1819). “Pride and Prejudice: A Novel”, p.123

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• I have for the first time found what I can truly love–I have found you. You are my sympathy–my better self–my good angel–I am bound to you with a strong attachment. I think you good, gifted, lovely: a fervent, a solemn passion is conceived in my heart; it leans to you, draws you to my centre and spring of life, wrap my existence about you–and, kindling in pure, powerful flame, fuses you and me in one.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Strong, Powerful, Spring

  Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.337, Simon and Schuster

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• Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides.

  Louis de Bernieres

  Sad Love, Love Is, Literature History

  FaceBook post by Louis de Bernieres from Dec 18, 2011

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• You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you. -Mr. Darcy

  Jane Austen

  Romantic, Love You, Pride

  Jane Austen, Joseph Pearce (2008). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.190, Ignatius Press

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• Love is not breathlessness; It is not excitement; It is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being “in love”, which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.

  Louis de Bernieres

  Romantic, Sad Love, Art

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• I have for the first time found what I can truly love- I have found you. You are my sympathy-my better self-my good angel-I am bound to you with a strong attachment.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Love, Strong, Angel

  Charlotte Bronte (2015). “Jane Eyre, an Autobiography: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.395, 谷月社

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• Romance novels are birthday cake and life is often peanut butter and jelly. I think everyone should have lots of delicious romance novels lying around for those times when the peanut butter of life gets stuck to the roof of your mouth.

  Janet Evanovich

  Birthday, Lying, Thinking

  Janet Evanovich (1988). “Thanksgiving”, Loveswept

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• The lust and attraction are often a given in a romance novel - I want to dig into the elements of true friendship that form a foundation for a solid, gonna-last-forever romantic relationship.

  Suzanne Brockmann

  True Friend, Forever, Romance

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• Certainly, light fiction exists and encompasses mysteries or second-class romance novels, books that are read on the beach, whose only aim is to entertain. These books are not concerned with style or creativity - instead they are successful because they are repetitive and follow a template that readers enjoy.

  Umberto Eco

  Beach, Book, Creativity

  "The art of creating a legend" by Umberto Eco, www.theguardian.com. July 19, 2002.

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• It's a given that we exist in a world where we have to live in continuity every day; no one is immune to that, in life or romance novels. By the same token, it's not something I find terribly important.

  Neil Gaiman

  Romance, Important, World

  "Neil Gaiman Writes a Final 'Love Letter to Batman'". Interview with Scott Thill, www.wired.com. April 21, 2009.

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• I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out if me with steel pipes.

  Patton Oswalt

  Romance, Three, Steel

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• I keep waiting for the day in which everyone who loves Downton Abbey will realize they were actually watching a historical romance novel.

  Julia Quinn

  Romance, Waiting, Historical

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• I loved him, but love isn't enough. All the fairy tales, the romance novels, the soap operas; they're all lies. Love does not conquer all.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Lying, Romance, Doe

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2008). “The Lunatic Cafe: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.176, Penguin

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• Once I learned, I went online and ordered every romance novel I could find. They're fairy tales for grown-ups.

  Gena Showalter

  Romance, Fairy Tale, Online

  Gena Showalter (2016). “The Darkest Night”, p.160, HQN Books

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• All my life I have been reading romance novels. Those stupid books ruined me. I've always wanted that fire that every book I ever read talks about.

  Aurora Rose Reynolds

  Stupid, Book, Reading

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• Life isn't a romance novel. The truth is, the reason romance novels sell so well ---- the reason why everyone loves them ---- is because no one's life is actually like that. Everyone WANTS their life to be like that.

  Meg Cabot

  Romance, Want, Reason Why

  Meg Cabot (2016). “Crowning Glory”, p.173, Pan Macmillan

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• His gaze slid over me like a veil of fire. He could ignite my deepest desires with a single glance. I decided right then and there no more reading romance novels by candelight.

  Darynda Jones

  Reading, Fire, Romance

  Darynda Jones (2011). “Second Grave on the Left”, p.40, Macmillan

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• He looked as if he'd stepped straight off the cover of one of those romance novels she ordered from Amazon.com so she didn't have to be embarassed by some supercilious male clerk in the bookstore.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Romance, Clerks, Males

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• I think it's just a matter of time before everybody realizes that I'm kind of a romance novelist ... that these are all stories about people kind of falling back in love or struggling with relationships. Even Fight Club was just a big romantic ending.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Struggle, Fall, Fighting

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Recently, I haven't had too much time to read. But I love a good romance novel.

  Jourdan Dunn

  Romance, Too Much, Novel

  "10 Questions: Jourdan Dunn" by Yale Breslin, www.elle.com. September 25, 2012.

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• As for the military or service professionals, I have nothing but respect for them, but come on, when it comes to romance novels, we all know it's really about the uniforms and how the guys look in them!

  Jill Shalvis

  Military, Guy, Romance

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• My novels are in the literature section as opposed to the romance section of bookstores because they're not romance novels. If I tried to have them published as romances, they'd be rejected. I write dramatic fiction; a further sub-genre would classify them as love stories.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Writing, Romance, Bookstores

  "Nicholas Sparks, Author of 'Nights in Rodanthe' and 'The Notebook'". Live Q&A, www.washingtonpost.com. September 17, 2008.

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