Top 500 Romance Quotes (2023 Update)
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451. “Nothing ever seems straightforward in Venice, least of all its romances.”

— Roger Ebert

452. “Every object strives for its proper place. A book seeks to be near its truest admirer. Just as this helpless moth seeks to be near the candle that infatuates him.”

— Vikram Seth

453. “Come to think of it, she did not speak a word. Yet I could have sworn she had the most beautiful voice.”

— Julie Klassen

454. “She leaned into me, and when I closed my eyes, I knew I wanted nothing more than to hold her this way forever.”

— Nicholas Sparks

455. “Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old.”

— John Ciardi

456. “Whether you like it or not, the digital age has produced a new format for modern romance, and natural selection may be favoring the quick-thumbed quip peddler over the confident, ice-breaking alpha male.”

— Ashton Kutcher

457. “I hope I haven’t given you the impression that I consider kissing intrinsically irrational.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

458. “I stare at her for a long moment. I want to kiss her. I want to kiss her more than I’ve ever wanted anything in my life.”

— Sara Gruen

459. “One can’t fight with oneself, for this battle has only one loser.”

— Mario Vargas Llosa

460. “You make the rest of the beautiful things in the world cry for even trying at all. You make it hard for me to breathe.”

— Debra Anastasia

461. “Hermione was screaming again: the sound went through Harry like physical pain.”

— J.K. Rowling

462. “Because you are the superhero fledgling. I’m just your more attractive sidekick. Oh, and the herd of nerds are your dorky minions.”

— P.C. Cast

463. “Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.”

— George William Curtis

464. “If I let myself love you, I won’t throw myself in front of her. I’ll throw myself in front of you.”

— Richelle Mead

465. “I’ve always seen My Chemical Romance as the band that would have represented who me and my friends were in high school, and the band that we didn’t have to represent us – the kids that wore black – back then.”

— Gerard Way

466. “There are certain kinds of silence that make you walk on air.”

— Cecelia Ahern

467. “I think everyone has their own version of romance like and I think everyone has their own romantic side.”

— Britt Robertson

468. “This first glance of a soul which does not yet know itself is like dawn in the heavens; it is the awakening of something radiant and unknown.”

— Victor Hugo

469. “She loved him, more than she could ever find words for, but this love he felt for her was not quite the same. It wasn’t so much stronger, as more demanding, more insistent. As though he feared he would lose that which he had finally won.”

— Jean M. Auel

470. “Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.”

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

471. “I tried to think of something to say. Excuse me? Hello? Marry me? Anything would have done.”

— Rick Riordan

472. “Does loving someone mean you want them to be safe? Or that you want them to be able to choose?”

— Ally Condie

473. “He felt like home.”

— JoAnne Kenrick

474. “It was heaven. Forget angels, forget St. Peter and glittering harpsichords. Heaven was a dance in the arms of one’s true love.”

— Julia Quinn

475. “He took in the squeaky music, the vulgar and pining melodies, because passion immobilizes good taste and seriously considers what soberly would be thought of as funny and to be resented.”

— Thomas Mann

476. “I’ve been running a lot, taking care of myself.”

— Eminem

477. “Maybe he thinks he can rescue me? No one is that stupid.”

— Kim Harrison

478. “But I think we both knew, even then, that what we had was something even more rare, and even more meaningful. I was going to be his friend, and was going to show him possibilities. And he, in turn, would become someone I could trust more than myself.”

— David Levithan

479. “That music and the lyrical aspects of Razorblade Romance is so personal to me that, now with me being grown up a bit and meeting new people and doing new things, it makes me look at the same things I was writing about back in the day through a different colored lens.”

— Ville Valo

480. “I wanted the feeling of romance and the sense of wonder I had known as a kid. I wanted the world to be what they had promised me it was going to be – instead of the tawdry, lousy fouled-up mess it is.”

— Robert A. Heinlein

481. “My ideas about vampires may by romantic, but your attitudes toward women need a major overhaul.”

— Deborah Harkness

482. “A relationship to me is never about the romance.”

— Shia LaBeouf

483. “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

484. “Without coffee, how would romance wake up in the morning?”

— Anthony T. Hincks

485. “I made the decision fifteen years ago that you were my life. My everything. You were with me in my dreams my dark lover my friend and confidant.”

— Christine Feehan

486. “Someone once told me love isn’t perfect – or predictable.”

— Lauren Morrill

487. “I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more on prose.”

— Virginia Woolf

488. “Readers understand that the books celebrate female power. In the romance novel, the woman always wins. With courage, intelligence and gentleness she brings the most dangerous creature on the earth, the human male, to his knees.”

— Jayne Ann Krentz

489. “I’m drawn to bad romances.”

— Lady Gaga

490. “His lips tasted cool and sharp, peppermint, winter, but his hands, soft on the back of my neck, promised long days and summer and forever.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

491. “As time went on, I did campaign to lighten the character a little bit, to introduce some romance into the episodes, outside activities, horse riding and fencing and mountaineering.”

— Patrick Stewart

492. “How can the moribund old man reason back to himself the romance, the mystery, the imminence of great things with which our old earth tingled for him in the days when he was young and well?”

— William James

493. “How about we give each other everything we can and not blame each other for what we can’t.”

— Jill Shalvis

494. “Romance makes a radiant sunrise out of every moment.”

— Thomas Kinkade

495. “Friendship is also a vital and wonderful part of courtship and marriage. A relationship between a man and a woman that begins with friendship and then ripens into romance and eventually marriage will usually become an enduring, eternal friendship.”

— Marlin K. Jensen

496. “Caring for someone is scary, because you both know how it feels to lose someone in the span of a heartbeat.”

— Nicole Williams

497. “I want to introduce myself to every freckle on your body.”

— Wendy Higgins

498. “He was the most ordinary man in all the world, and yet in her memory he’d become luminous, like the prince in a fairy tale.”

— Cheryl Strayed

499. “Like some wines our love could neither mature nor travel.”

— Graham Greene

500. “Lo! with a little rod I did but touch the honey of romance – And must I lose a soul’s inheritance?”

— Oscar Wilde