All Quotes By Tag: Romance

“Did it ever occur to you that I loved you as much as a man can love a woman? Loved you for years before I finally got you? During the war I’d go away and try to forget you, but I couldn’t and I always had to come back. After the war I risked arrest, just to come back and find you. I cared so much I believe I would have killed Frank Kennedy if he hadn’t died when he did. I loved you but I couldn’t let you know it. You’re so brutal to those who love you, Scarlett. You take their love and hold it over their heads like a whip.”

“I couldn’t have gotten through any of this without you. Through all of it, you’ve been my support, my anchor. I don’t know how one man’s shoulders can possibly be so strong.”…He tilted her face up to his. “With the love I feel for you, bella, I could lift up the world.”

“Don’t get me wrong. I’m happy to be your morning lollipop, but I need to eat, too.”

“EVERYONE MAKES MISTAKES, EVEN THE PERSONS WE LOVE.”

“Love is one of those topics that plenty of people try to write about but not enough try to do.”

“Petey Samson gave the ladies an over-the-shoulder glance. He realized no doggie treat was forthcoming, even from Isabel who was usually the soft mark to hit up. He scratched his front claws to re-attack the sand.”

“Stanley forced a smile to his lips at the memory of the onesided romance; it was silly, after all, a stupid childhood crush. Who’d fall in love with a fictional character? That was the kind of thing you laughed about as an adult. Or at least Harriet had thought so. He couldn’t quite do it, though. Couldn’t quite see it as a joke. It had felt too real, too raw and wild and fierce, for him todismiss it even now. It was love, of a sort, stunted and unformed as it was. For a time, it had kept him sane.”

“Puso cara de cachorrillo abandonado y de forma instintiva me dieron ganas de abrazarle. Resistirme a él era cada vez más difícil. Leo emanaba la clase de magnetismo que es imposible ignorar. Ese que gira cabezas a su paso y atrae miradas allí por donde pasa. Y yo, desde luego, no era inmune a él.”

“I believe that life always has a way of surprising you, for better or for worse,” he looks at me once more, his eyes holding mine captive in its strong hold. “And that you always have a choice as to how the story ends…”

“… the idea that ‘Life’ contains situations more interesting and more romantic than all the romances ever written.”

“…when he possessed her, they seemed to swoon together at the very borderland of life’s mystery.”

“The busy snoops like us can leave no stone unturned,” Alma said.”

“Megan stepping back let her glance switch from Alma to Isabel and return to Alma. No doubt about it, thought Megan. Created as much alike as any sisters ever had been, their resemblance started with their matching red-and-white polka dot blouses. Since she was a young girl, she had matched their eye colors to their different personalities.”

“My feet crunched over dry hickory leaves. Wood rangers had stapled up Smokey Bear (“Only You Can Prevent Forest Fires!”) signs along the state roads. One cigarette butt flicked out a passing car window and there’d be real hell to pay.”

“Oxthorpe stood. He could do nothing else. Her hands stilled, and her smile faded away. She stood and dropped into a curtsy. What did one say in such situations, when one knew a lady disapproved? “Miss Clay,” he said. “Duke.” She’d given the field laborer a happier smile than she gave him. Most everyone else had stopped smiling, too. This was the effect he had on others. He was the Duke of Oxthorpe, and though he did his duty by his title and his estate, he was not beloved. He did not know how to be beloved the way Miss Clay was.”