All Quotes By Tag: Romance

“There is nothing more beautiful than a vulnerable heart in open hands.”

“After you were bitten, I knew what would happen. I waited for you to change, every night, so I could bring you back and keep you from getting hurt.” A chilly gust of wind lifter his hair and sent a shower of golden leaves glimmering down around him. He spred out his arms, letting them fall into his hands. He looked like a dark angel in an eternal autumn wood. “Did you know you get one happy day for everyone you catch?”I didn’t know what he meant, even after he opened his fist to show me the quivering leaves crumpled in his palm.One happy day for every falling leaf you catch.” Sam’s voice was low.I watched the egdes of the leaves slowly unfold, fluttering in the breeze.”How long did you wait?”It would have been romantic if hr’d had the courage to look into my face to say it, but instead, he dropped his eyes to the ground and scuffed his boots in the leaves- countless possibilities for happy days- on the ground. “I haven’t stopped.”And I should’ve said something romantic too, but i didn’t have the courage, either. So instead, I watched the shy way he was chewing his lip and studying the leaves, and said, “That must’ve been very borring.”

“Don’t make a feller wait too long. A feller waiting on a gal can get ornery’er than a huntin’ dog that’s tree’d it’s squirrel.”

“Marriage would change hardly anything between us, except that we would end our arguments in a much more satisfying way. And of course I would have extensive legal rights over your body, your property, and all your individual freedoms, but I don’t see what’s so alarming about that.”

“…whether he stayed or left, whether they walked the same path or not. They could live on opposite sides of the world, and she would still be his.”

“All day and all night my desire for you unwinds like a poisonous snake.”

“Love is a wild fire that cannot be contained by any mere element known to man.”

“It doesn’t matter. I love you. That’s it. That’s all. I hope to hell it’s enough.”

“Beatrix, do you know what happens to girls who ask such naughty questions?”“They’re ravished in haylofts?” she inquired hopefully.”

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

“I guess I like things that take time and attention. More worthwhile that way.”

“It’s b******* to think of friendship and romance being different. They’re not. They’re just variations of the same love. Variatons of the same desire to be close.”

“In the beginning, being alone is always a choice. Then it’s not a choice anymore. When did it stop being a choice? What is it in me that stopped choosing you, that moved into you instead so that I have to be with you in order to be with myself?”

“Anna,” he said, dragging his frosted fingers through my hair.”Don’t you know what it means when a boy pulls your hair at your birthday party?” “No.” Just, then, i didn’t know what anything meant.”

“Tatiana said. “Go on with Dasha. She is right for you. She is a woman and I’m-” “Blind!”, Alexander exclaimed. Tatiana stood, desolately failing in the battle of her heart. “Oh, Alexander. What do you want from me…” “Everything”, he whispered fiercely.”