All Quotes By Tag: Romance

“I’ll be your friend in daylight. I’ll treat you as a comrade in every gas-lit ballroom. But alone, under moonlight, I’ll not pretend that I want you for anything but mine.”

“There is no law stronger than that ofmagic. – Kian”

“They had no conversation together, no intercourse but what the commonest civility required. Once so much to each other! Now nothing! There had been a time, when of all the large party now filling the drawing-room at Uppercross, they would have found it most difficult to cease to speak to one another. With the exception, perhaps, of Admiral and Mrs. Croft, who seemed particularly attached and happy, (Anne could allow no other exception even among the married couples) there could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so simliar, no feelings so in unison, no countenances so beloved. Now they were as strangers; nay, worse than strangers, for they could never become aquainted. It was a perpetual estrangement.”

“There were books about how to be gay; he’d seen them in stores and libraries. Some of them even had diagrams. But there weren’t any diagrams about how to fall in love with your best friend and not fuck everything up.”

“The man who gets Mara gets you and Billie. I’m that man. What you gotta get is, while fallin’ in love with Mara, I fell in love with you and your sister. Straight up, Bud, no lie. The feelings I feel for Mara are hers, the feelings I feel for Billie are hers and the feelings I feel for you are yours. You all have my love, not collectively, individually. Do you understand me?” “Mitch nodded. “Right. What I mean is, I didn’t fall in love with you all as a whole. I fell in love with each of you because of who you are. I don’t care about you because you come with Mara. I care about you because you’re a good kid. You’re smart. You’re loyal. And you love and look out for your sister and Mara. I know grown men who do not have a character as fine as yours. Those are the reasons I love you. There are different reasons I love Billie. And there are different reasons I love Mara. Today, what we had together was good. But the feelings I feel for you aren’t feelings I have to have in order to have Mara. They’re feelings you earned. Now, you with me?”

“Asuka…you’re really cute. When I look at you…I start wanting to protect you.”

“I can’t take anything you don’t give me. Stop giving me power over your life.”

“Innocence invites protection, yet we might be smarter to protect ourselves against it…”

“Why are you pretending to write, when I already know you’re just doing that to intimidate me?”

“Together, we form a necessary paradox; not a senseless contradiction.”

“Clearly the sight of a well-muscled forearm incited a woman to utter depravity. How else to explain the invention of cuffs?”

“Don’t take this next undercover assignment. Stay with me instead.”Nick’s eyes pierced hers, refusing to let her off that easily. “Tell me why.””Because… I love you.” She exhaled. No take-backs. The words were out there forever.And it felt great.”

“We’ve got a bond in common, you and I. We are both alone in the world.”

“Your beauty took my breath away, but your mind has stopped my heart.”

“This is Sailor Supergirl,” George says. “She knows all about black holes.”