•“If a man wants you, nothing can keep him away. If he doesn't want you, nothing can make him stay.” 
― Oprah Winfrey

•“They didn’t agree on much. In fact, they didn’t agree on anything. They fought all the time and challenged each other ever day. But despite their differences, they had one important thing in common. They were crazy about each other.” 
― Nicholas Sparks

•“what a luxury it was for people to hold their loved ones whenever they wanted” 
― Cecelia Ahern

•“If music be the food of love, play on,
Give me excess of it; that surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken, and so die.” 
― William Shakespeare

•“You're a hero and a gentleman, you're kind and honest, but more than that, you're the first man I ever truly loved. And no matter what the future brings, you always will be, and I know that my life is better for it.” 
― Nicholas Sparks

•“True love is rare, and it's the only thing that gives life real meaning.” 
― Nicholas Sparks

•“Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.” 
― Jane Austen

•“It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.” 
― E.M. Forster

•“I could feel the warmth of his presence as if a soft blanket had been wrapped around my soul, around my heart. It held me and protected me. It sheltered me and I knew I wasn’t alone anymore.” 
― Colleen Houck

•“I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.” 
― Jane Austen

•“I don't want to be somebody's crush. If somebody likes me, I want them to like the real me, not what they think I am.” 
― Stephen Chbosky

•“If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were.” 
― Kahlil Gibran

•“There was nothing sweet or gentle in our last kiss; it was filled with sorrow and desperation, of the bitter knowledge that we could've had something perfect, but it just wasn't meant to be.” 
― Julie Kagawa

•“You can't force love, I realized. It's there or it isn't. If it's not there, you've got to be able to admit it. If it is there, you've got to do whatever it takes to protect the ones you love.” 
― Richelle Mead

•“Love knows no boundaries. I wish I would have known that before I hired a cartographer to map out my romantic territory.” 
― Jarod Kintz

•“Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.” 
― Elinor Glyn

•“I would lay down everything I possess, even my soul, for you. If that isn't love, it's the best I have.” 
― Becca Fitzpatrick

•“One day, when I am a braver man, I will tell her these things, and then I will look her in the eye tell her I love her and ask her to be only mine. But until that day, we're just friends.” 
― Charlie Huston

•“As a girl, she had come to believe in the ideal man -- the prince or knight of her childhood stories. In the real world, however, men like that simply didn't exist.” 
― Nicholas Sparks

•“The mouth is made for communication, and nothing is more articulate than a kiss.” 
― Jarod Kintz

•“Okay, then I’ll just say I love you. There is nothing in this world more important to me than you are. I’m only content when you’re near. My whole purpose is to be what you need me to be. It’s not poetry, but it’s from my heart. Will that do?” 
― Colleen Houck

•“There is a place you can touch a woman that will drive her crazy. Her heart.” 
― Melanie Griffith

•“Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.”  

•“Sometimes I wonder if there's something wrong with me. Perhaps I've spent too long in the company of my literary romantic heroes, and consequently my ideals and expectations are far too high.” 
― E.L. James

•“You told me I was the best sex you'd ever had in your life...You couldn't get enough...At one point you were so loud I thought sure hotel security was going to beat down the door.” 
― Rachel Gibson

•“Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.” 
― Oscar Wilde   

•“Do you remember the first time we made love?" He touched his lips to hers as he said it. "We rode up in the elevator like this and couldn't keep our hands off each other, couldn't get to each other quick enough. I was mad for you. I wanted you more than I wanted to keep breathing. I still do." He deepened the kiss as the elevator doors opened. "It's never going to change.” 
― J.D. Robb

•“I could still feel the ghost of him hovering in the quiet, dark recess of my heart. It was as if he was just waiting for me to be lonely, or to let my guard down, so that he could surface and fill my mind again with thoughts of him.” 
― Colleen Houck

•“A quiet but indomitable voice behind me said, “I believe this is my dance.” It was him. I could feel his presence. The warmth of him seeped into my back, and I quivered all over like spring leaves in a warm breeze.” 
― Colleen Houck

•“It doesn’t matter where I am; I’m yours.” 
― Sherry Thomas

•“Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.”
― George William Curtis 

•“In a great romance, each person basically plays a part that the other really likes.”
― Elizabeth Ashley 

•“I could recognise his soul in mine as much as he could find me in his. Our sole existences seemed to have been for this very moment when nothing else mattered.” 
― X. Williamson

•“A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life, to be thankful for a good one.” 

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

•“I don’t understand how I could have believed you were a warm, affectionate, and tenderhearted person! You’re obviously as prickly as a porcupine and any man who comes close to you will end up with a face full of quills!” 
― Colleen Houck

•“To return to love, to get the love we always wanted but never had, to have the love we want but are not prepared to give, we seek romantic relationships. We believe these relationships, more than any other, will rescue and redeem us. True love does have the power to redeem but only if we are ready for redemption. Love saves us only if we want to be saved.” 
― bell hooks

•“This is going to sound crazy, but... from the moment I first set eyes on you I haven't been able to stop thinking about you.” 
― Leigh Fallon

•“This is love, I think. A place where people who have been alone may lock together like hawks and spin in the air, dizzy with surprise at the connection. A place you go willingly, and with wonder” 
― Jodi Picoult

•“If she had learned anything in the past weeks it was that there was enough to be ashamed of in the course of a messy human life without being ashamed of loving someone ” 
― Shannon McKenna

•“Relationships are all about trust and equality. If one person shares, then the other person should share, too.” 
― Sophie Kinsella

•“I didn't want to give you the one last part of myself that I couldn't take back. And then you were gone... And I realized it was already yours. It had been since the beginning. Except that I hadn't told you. It drove me mad, the thought that you would never know.” 
― Lisa Kleypas

•“I feel…and I have reason to believe…that we could come to mean something to each other.” 
― Colleen Houck

•“If you can capture a woman's imagination, then you will have her. But imagination is a strange creature. It needs time and distance to function properly.” 
― Kathleen Tessaro

•“If you loved someone, you couldn’t let lies come between you. No matter what happened—even if you’d already lost each other forever—you owed each other the truth.” 
― Claudia Gray

•“In our time together, you claimed a special place in my heart, one I'll carry with me forever and that no one can ever replace.” 
― Nicholas Sparks

•“Now turn around and go to sleep. I'm warning you that I plan to sleep with you in my arms all night long.” 
― Colleen Houck

•“Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you're wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn't love you anymore.” 
― Lady Gaga