Top 500 Romance Quotes (2023 Update)
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251. “How did I get here How did I end up in the arms of a boy I barely knew but knew I didn’t want to lose I wondered what I would have thought of Andrius in Lithuania. Would I have liked him Would he have liked me.”

— Ruta Sepetys

252. “People tend to criticize their spouse most loudly in the area where they themselves have the deepest emotional need.”

— Gary Chapman

253. “I have 20 or 30 books completely plotted out in my mind – mysteries, thrillers, horror, romance, science fiction. You name it.”

— Christopher Paolini

254. “The first step to finding a God-written love story is handing the pen to the true Author of romance.”

— Leslie Ludy

255. “I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.”

— John Steinbeck

256. “Prefer the familiar word to the far-fetched. Prefer the concrete word to the abstract. Prefer the single word to the circumlocution. Prefer the short word to the long. Prefer the Saxon word to the Romance.”

— Henry Watson Fowler

257. “I take his hand, holding on tightly, preparing for the cameras, and dreading the moment when I will finally have to let go.”

— Suzanne Collins

258. “We’re smitten with technology. And we’re afraid, like young lovers, that too much talking might spoil the romance. But it’s time to talk.”

— Sherry Turkle

259. “It is impossible to manufacture or imitate love.”

— J.K. Rowling

260. “She wanted something else, something different, something more. Passion and romance, perhaps, or maybe quiet conversations in candlelit rooms, or perhaps something as simple as not being second.”

— Nicholas Sparks

261. “No one is more romantic than a cynic. I do think that you don’t become cynical or ‘unsentimental’ unless there’s a core of romanticism or sentiment that’s had a few chips nicked into it.”

— Nora Ephron

262. “I was as unburdened as a piece of dandelion fluff, and he was the wind that stirred me about the world.”

— Sarah J. Maas

263. “We live in a dark and romantic and quite tragic world.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

264. “Pray as if all things depend on God, and work as if all things depend on you.”

— Christina Dodd

265. “Thou art to me a delicious torment.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

266. “Romance never does go out of fashion. It’s radical. But it’s out of step with the current media culture.”

— Bob Dylan

267. “Heraldry is the fusion of fact and fancy, myth and manner, romance and reality. It is an exuberant union of family, art, and history.”

— Charles Burnett

268. “Never mind the ridicule, never mind the defeat: up again, old heart!-it seems to say,-there is victory yet for all justice; and the true romance which the world exists to realize, will be the transformation of genius into practical power.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

269. “The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.”

— Alan Kay

270. “There’s one great script that hit my desk that I didn’t change at all, and that was True Romance.”

— Tony Scott

271. “I think our society puts too much pressure on romantic love, and that is why so many romances fail. Romance can’t possibly carry all that we want it to.”

— Donald Miller

272. “Jealousy in romance is like salt in food. A little can enhance the savor, but too much can spoil the pleasure and, under certain circumstances, can be life-threatening.”

— Maya Angelou

273. “We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.”

— Jane Austen

274. “Your neck. I want to kiss it.”

— Edmond Rostand

275. “Three years? That’s a thousand tomorrows, ma’am.”

— Karen Kingsbury

276. “She was overstrained with grief and loneliness: almost any shoulder would have done as well.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

277. “Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.”

— Jane Austen

278. “Cinema Paradiso, because it reminds me of why I make movies, the magic of movies, the romance of movies.”

— Antoine Fuqua

279. “I love you, Daisy. I love you so much I hurt.”

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

280. “Do you remember the first time we made love?” He touched his lips to hers as he said it. “We rode up in the elevator like this and couldn’t keep our hands off each other, couldn’t get to each other quick enough. I was mad for you. I wanted you more than I wanted to keep breathing. I still do.” He deepened the kiss as the elevator doors opened. “It’s never going to change.”

— J.D. Robb

281. “Yes yes yes I do like you. I am afraid to write the stronger word.”

— Virginia Woolf

282. “Oh no. Don’t smile. You’ll kill me. I stop breathing when you smile.”

— Tessa Dare

283. “Barriers tend to intensify romance. It’s called the ‘Romeo and Juliet effect.’ I call it ‘frustration attraction.’”

— Helen Fisher

284. “Sometime you will find, even as I have found, that there is no such thing as romantic experience; there are romantic memories, and there is the desire of romance- that is all. Our most fiery moments of ecstasy are merely shadows of what somewhere else we have felt, or of what we long someday to feel.”

— Oscar Wilde

285. “But there’s a part of me that wonders what it would be like to be the most important person to someone else, to always feel like you were missing a piece of yourself when he wasn’t near you.”

— Jodi Picoult

286. “Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.”

— Elinor Glyn

287. “There isn’t a doubt in my mind that we could be perfect for each others life, Sydney. It’s our lives that aren’t perfect for us.”

— Colleen Hoover

288. “Do you think there’s a difference? Between belonging with and belonging to?”

— Jenny Han

289. “Here’s something else to think about: calling when you say you’re going to is the very first brick in the house you are building of love and trust. If he can’t lay this one stupid brick down, you ain’t never gonna have a house baby, and it’s cold outside.”

— Greg Behrendt

290. “It was the sort of bone deep emotion that made him want to hold her tighter with one hand, and draw a sword against the world with the other.”

— Jeaniene Frost

291. “Nerd girls are the world’s most underutilized romantic resource. And guys, do not tell me that nerd girls are not hot because that shows a Paris Hilton-esque failure to understand hotness.”

— John Green

292. “We’re taught that in life, we should try to look on the bright side. Not in this case. In this case, assume rejection first. Assume you’re the rule, not the exception. It’s liberating. But we also know it’s not an easy concept. -He’s not just into you.”

— Greg Behrendt

293. “It’s all life is. Just going ’round kissing people.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

294. “Romance is finding your fantasy in people who don’t have it.”

— Andy Warhol

295. “No one has ever written a romance better than we lived it.”

— Lauren Bacall

296. “By ‘scientifiction’ I mean the Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, and Edgar Allan Poe type of story-a charming romance intermingled with scientific fact and prophetic vision.”

— Hugo Gernsback

297. “I hated this. I hated knowing what I wanted and knowing what was right and knowing they weren’t the same thing.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

298. “We all romanticize the people we adore.”

— John Green

299. “And I mean to hear ye groan like that again. And to moan and sob, even though you dinna wish to, for ye canna help it. I mean to make you sigh as though your heart would break, and scream with the wanting, and at last to cry out in my arms, and I shall know that I’ve served ye well.”

— Diana Gabaldon

300. “I wish it had never happened because then I wouldn’t think about it as I’m falling asleep.”

— Elizabeth Scott