All Quotes By Tag: Romance-novels

“Sometimes we can’t find our future until we settle our past.”

“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.”

“All Jane Austen novels have a common storyline: an attractive and virtuous young woman surmounts difficulties to achieve marriage to the man of her choice. This is the age-long convention of the romantic novel, but with Jane Austen, what we have is Mills & Boon written by a genius.”

“Everyone thinks to the extent of their own depravity,” #HenriettaLedyanova , #FatefulItalianPassion .”

“You are the last thought in my mind before I drift off to sleep and the first thought when I wake up each morning.”

“The woman who started as a pawn in this game, to be used, ignored, or discarded as needed, had somehow become the all-powerful queen.”

“«Cosa vuoi fare da grande?» E, così dicendo, giunse le mani come se la stesse confessando. «La detective per animali scomparsi in circostanze misteriose?»”

“Happiness is only for those who have never experienced pleasure. There is an eternal war between these two gods, and the first one is only winning until the second one shows up. And when it shows up from around the corner, with bared shoulders and lips swollen from all the kissing, happiness is being put aside like a book that’ open in the middle, to finish it later when it rains and there’s nothing else to do.”

“Trust him but keep your eyes open.”

“Live by your wits, not your artistry.”

“Temper it with a little fear,’ he said gently. ‘It keeps you from being reckless. Reckless people don’t live long.’ His touch on her hand sent sparks through her.”

“You were like this rare, beautiful comet lighting up the dark sky.”

“What you see on the outside, never tells the true story of someone’s heart.”

“Delicate. Ha. There was nothing delicate about her.”

“The reader is the final arbiter.”