romance

"Marriage is a partnership, not a democracy."

"Mercy is for the weak… let me show you how much of an Unseelie I still am."

"Maybe sometimes we can only see the truth about ourselves if someone shows us where to look."

"Love is like a portable lamp/sex toy. The world calls those flashlights, but I’m much more romantic."

"Do you think there's a difference? Between belonging with and belonging to?"

"Patti told me that to truly love someone ,you must hold them in a open hand.That was how I needed to love Kai. It was necessary to uncurl my fingers and let him go"

"You're okay now... You're okay because I'll be holding you like this from now on."

"She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning."

"I’ll be your Dostoevsky, if you’ll be my Tolstoy. Our life together will be so full of despair that death will be like a gulag full of joy."

"It's like you have a plan and someone comes along and makes you want to change it all, but you still like your first plan, no matter how fantastic the second one makes you feel."

"I think of you only twice a day - when I am alone and when I am with someone else."

"This first glance of a soul which does not yet know itself is like dawn in the heavens; it is the awakening of something radiant and unknown."

"Looks like Kelsey wins the award for early riser. And doesn’t she look purtier than a pat of butter meltin’ all over a stack of griddle cakes?"

"The guy in bed with her was not Nathan. Which meant Elle was buck-naked and wantonly riding the wrong guy."

"I’m on a roller coaster that only goes up, my friend."

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

"Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love."

"He caught her, and he held her, and he let her cry, and cry, and cry, and he let her use his sheets to wipe her eyes, and her nose, and God knows what, because he had plenty of clean sheets, and he only had one Kat."

"I wanted to be his life preserver, the thing that would keep him afloat. Instead, he became my anchor. And I’m tired of drowning."

"I no longer believed in the idea of soul mates, or love at first sight. But I was beginning to believe that a very few times in your life, if you were lucky, you might meet someone who was exactly right for you. Not because he was perfect, or because you were, but because your combined flaws were arranged in a way that allowed two separate beings to hinge together."