Romance Quotes - Page 15

• Thou art to me a delicious torment.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Art, Torment

  'Essays' (1841) 'Friendship'

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• I can't imagine a romance novel published today where the hero rapes the heroine and she falls in love with him.

  Julia Quinn

  Falling In Love, Hero, Today

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• Perhaps all romance is like that; not a contract between equal parties but an explosion of dreams and desires that can find no outlet in everyday life. Only a drama will do and while the fireworks last the sky is a different colour.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Dream, Drama, Party

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• It's just that romance, with its dips and turns and glooms and highs, its swoops and swoons and blues, is a natural metaphor for music itself

  Nick Hornby

  Dip, Metaphor, Natural

  Nick Hornby (2003). “Songbook”, p.52, Penguin

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• To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.

  Saint Augustine

  Faith, God, Falling In Love

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• But I couldn't help myself, couldn't help the way I felt as I recalled the bliss and rush of a vampire's bite.

  Richelle Mead

  Vampire, Way, Helping

  Richelle Mead (2007). “Vampire Academy”, p.45, Penguin

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• You can't force love, I realized. It's there or it isn't. If it's not there, you've got to be able to admit it. If it is there, you've got to do whatever it takes to protect the ones you love.

  Richelle Mead

  Romantic Love, Able, Vampire Academy

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.305, Penguin

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• I have a history of making decisions very quickly about men. I have always fallen in love fast and without measuring risks. I have a tendency not only to see the best in everyone, but to assume that everyone is emotionally capable of reaching his highest potential. I have fallen in love more times than I care to count with the highest potential of a man, rather than with the man himself, and I have hung on to the relationship for a long time (sometimes far too long) waiting for the man to ascend to his own greatness. Many times in romance I have been a victim of my own optimism.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Love, Disappointment, Greatness

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• I seem to have run in a great circle, and met myself again on the starting line.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Running, Circles, Religion

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• The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Relationship, Essence

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.104, Wordsworth Editions

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• Attraction is not an option.

  Neil Strauss

  Attraction

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• There is darkness in light, there is pain in joy, and there are thorns on the rose.

  Cate Tiernan

  Inspirational, Life, Pain

  Cate Tiernan (2007). “Blood Witch: Book Three”, p.23, Penguin

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• It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.

  E. M. Forster

  Love, Romantic, Wish

  E.M. Forster (2012). “A Room with a View”, p.166, Courier Corporation

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• Funny how we think of romance as always involving two, when the romance of solitude can be ever so much more delicious and intense.

  Tom Robbins

  Thinking, Two, Solitude

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.257, Bantam

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• Music is storming, driving, relentless, devotional, slinky, subtle, heartbreakingly-beautiful sounds that, lyrically, switch from the cynical to the sanguine, the defeated to the defiant, dealing in love, war, beauty, children, romance, rejection, Pethedine, poetry, panties, God, Auden, Johnny Cash, cold potatoes, too-much-money, not enough money, writer’s block, flowers, animals and more flowers. But maybe I’m projecting here.

  Nick Cave

  Beautiful, Children, Block

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• All hopes of eternity and all gain from the past he would have given to have her there, to be wrapped warm with him in one blanket, and sleep, only sleep. It seemed the sleep with the woman in his arms was the only necessity.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Sleep, Romantic Love, Past

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Lady chatterleys lover”, p.180, D. H. Lawrence

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• What he would say, he cannot say to this woman whose openness is like a wound, whose youth is not mortal yet. He cannot alter what he loves most in her, her lack of compromise, where the romance of the poems she loves still sits with ease in the real world. Outside these qualities he knows there is no order in the world.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Real, Order, Quality

  Michael Ondaatje (2011). “The English Patient”, p.157, Vintage

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• Don't leave a piece of jewelry at his house so you can go back and get it later; he may be with his real girlfriend.

  Amy Sedaris

  Girlfriend, Real, Women

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• The tragedy of preparedness has scarcely been handled, save by the Greeks. Life is indeed dangerous, but not in the way morality would have us believe. It is indeed unmanageable, but the essence of it is not a battle. It is unmanageable because it is a romance, and its essence is romantic beauty.

  E. M. Forster

  Believe, Essence, Greek

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.606, Delphi Classics

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• Statistically speaking, there is a 65 percent chance that the love of your life is having an affair. Be very suspicious.

  Scott Dikkers

  Relationship, Chance, Life Is

  Scott Dikkers (2009). “You Are Worthless: Depressing Nuggets of Wisdom Sure to Ruin Your Day”, p.135, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• This is as much a part of my story as anything else. Friendship is love as much as any romance.

  David Levithan

  Stories

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• I despised their antics because I took life seriously and had a much more lofty and tender notion of romance. But I would have liked to get their attention just the same.

  Alice Munro

  Attention, Notion, Antics

  Alice Munro (1999). “The love of a good woman: stories”, Penguin, 1999

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• Hey, if you'd wanted to avoid 'this,' you shouldn't have lured me last night. Now it's too late. You might as well avoid the long, drawn-out pain and get it over with quickly. Sort of like taking off a Band-Aid. Or cutting off a limb." "Wow, who says there's no romance left in the world?

  Richelle Mead

  Pain, Cutting, Night

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Succubus Blues”, p.107, Zebra Books

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• come back so i can say yes this time do it again now that i know what to call what you did this time i'll be ready i like it rough now and i'm done with romance i never met another man who loved me so much at first sight he had to hurt me to do it

  Daphne Gottlieb

  Hurt, Men, Sight

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• Nice dress. Take it off.

  Janet Evanovich

  Nice, Dresses

  Janet Evanovich, Ina Yalof (2006). “How I Write: Secrets of a Bestselling Author”, p.101, Macmillan

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