Top 500 Romance Quotes (2026 Update)
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51. “My favorite color is you.”

— Suzanne Brockmann

52. “I’ve looked around enough to know that you’re the one I want to go through time with.”

— Jim Croce

53. “Love is my religion – I could die for it.”

— John Keats

54. “Sometimes letting go is the only way to find out who you’re meant to hold on to.”

— J. Sterling

55. “You’re like a song that I heard when I was a little kid but forgot I knew until I heard it again.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

56. “And empty words are evil.”

— Homer

57. “Just one look and then I knew that all I longed for long ago was you.”

— Elizabeth Berg

58. “I gave you the best of me.”

— Nicholas Sparks

59. “Draw a circle, not a heart, around the one you love because a heart can break but a circle goes on forever.”

— Danny Kaye

60. “It’s a lot of responsibility to hold a person’s heart in your hands.”

— Jenny Han

61. “Sometimes you wake up from a dream. Sometimes you wake up in a dream. And sometimes, every once in a while, you wake up in someone else’s dream.”

— Richelle Mead

62. “Heal my heart and make it clean, open up my eyes to the things unseen, show me how to love like you have loved me.”

— Kiera Cass

63. “I will see you in another life when we are both cats.”

— Cameron Crowe

64. “When you find someone you want to spend forever with, you don’t let them go, whether forever turns out to be a day, a year or fifty years. Don’t let the fear of losing them keep you from loving them.”

— Nicole Williams

65. “Carpe Scrotum. Seize life by the testicles.”

— Rowena Cherry

66. “I have tried to let you go and I cannot. I cannot stop thinking of you. I cannot stop dreaming about you.”

— Erin Morgenstern

67. “One is never too old for romance.”

— Ingrid Bergman

68. “The first time he’d held her hand, it felt so good that it crowded out all the bad things. It felt better than anything had ever hurt.”

— Rainbow Rowell

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69. “Love, like everything else in life, should be a discovery, an adventure, and like most adventures, you don’t know you’re having one until you’re right in the middle of it.”

— E.A. Bucchianeri

70. “I now deserve love. romance, and joy – and all the good that Life has to offer me.”

— Louise Hay

71. “What about when someone doesn’t need a shoulder? What if they need the arms?”

— Stephen Chbosky

72. “I don’t think two people could have been happier than we have been.”

— Michael Cunningham

73. “You are a Queen. Let mine be the joy of giving you your kingdom.”

— Katherine Mansfield

74. “People aren’t defined by their relationships. The whole point is being true to yourself and not losing yourself in relationships, whether romances or friendships.”

— Nina Dobrev

75. “When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one’s self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.”

— Oscar Wilde

76. “The curves of your lips rewrite history.”

— Oscar Wilde

77. “It doesn’t matter where I am; I’m yours.”

— Sherry Thomas

78. “You’re a hero and a gentleman, you’re kind and honest, but more than that, you’re the first man I ever truly loved. And no matter what the future brings, you always will be, and I know that my life is better for it.”

— Nicholas Sparks

79. “In order to love simply, it is necessary to know how to show love.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

80. “She, as no other ever could, reached every corner of his heart. His joy, and his salvation.”

— J.D. Robb

81. “Spiritual connection does not mean romance.”

— Caroline Myss

82. “Romance is possible between two people at any age! I love feeling young and acting young as I age.”

— Kim Alexis

83. “Partnership, not dependence, is the real romance in marriage.”

— Muriel Fox

84. “Smile. It’s the second best thing you can do with your lips.”

— Jill Shalvis

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85. “Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.”

— Thomas Wolfe

86. “There may be trouble ahead – But while there’s moonlight, and music, and love, and romance -Let’s face the music and dance.”

— Irving Berlin

87. “The way her body existed only where he touched her. The rest of her was smoke.”

— Arundhati Roy

88. “You know I’m getting a little tired of waiting for you to catch on.”

— Veronica Roth

89. “Everyone’s a little crazy. Some people just hide it better than others.”

— Michelle Hodkin

90. “You have to be a romantic to invest yourself, your money, and your time in cheese.”

— Anthony Bourdain

91. “A broken heart is just the growing pains necessary so that you can love more completely when the real thing comes along.”

— J.S.B. Morse

92. “We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.”

— Ray Bradbury

93. “Romance is everything.”

— Gertrude Stein

94. “In any relationship in which two people become one, the end result is two half people.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

95. “When you look out of a window, when you look at anything, you know what you’re seeing? Yourself. A thing can only look beautiful or romantic or inspiring only if the beauty or romance or inspiration is inside you.”

— Fredric Brown

96. “There’s no good story without romance.”

— Stephenie Meyer

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97. “Humans are vulnerable, because they’re capable of being hurt.”

— Becca Fitzpatrick

98. “She laughed. My favorite music.”

— Christopher Moore

99. “What is real and what is not is for your heart to decide and for your heart to know.”

— Colleen Houck

100. “There are some experiences in life they haven’t invented the right words for.”

— Lisa Kleypas