1,205 Quotes About Romance-novels

There are hints of him in everything she writes. It's how she keeps him close, and it's why he'll never die. When people ask her why she loves to write, she tells them: It's truly a matter of life and death.

A good part of the physical attraction [between the hero and heroine of a romance novel] comes to life during these exchanges as well, since language creates a meeting of the minds. I have long thought that these lines of dialogue carve out the lines of the central love relationship. The dialogue between the hero and heroine creates the central shape of the story. It is the verbal sculpture.

I will spend all of eternity trying to find him, if it means that I can see his face just one last time.

Whatever you want,' he promised in a husky tone.

I think," he said at last, "that you are very clever, and clever people such as yourself often think there are answers to all questions. But alas, I was not clever in life, and am even less clever in death. I have no answer that would satisfy you. I believe there are some questions, like the whys and hows of love, that are ineffably beautiful because they have no answer. I was empty once, and your companionship has made me whole. I cannot explain why. Can you accept that?

If I did the right thing, why does it hurt so much?

I did not ask for your approval, if you would have said no, I still would have imbibed your energy.

Happiness is a frightening state of being. If we let ourselves be happy, then there is something that can always be taken from us. In one minute, one second, everything can change.

Do you remember the unbidden summer rainWashing the dew from mulberries away?Can you forget the scent of honey over fields,And those amber-colored acorns beads…And crowds of singing motley birdsAround the foggy, misty lake?That’s where our childhood mirthWill be remained as a fairy-tale…