Romance

"I love you, baby girl. When you’re sad, I am too."

"Long ago she'd clamped an iron shell around her heart and nothing and no one could pry it lose, but deep inside the tender flesh still beat."

"A teenage girl lay asleep on the sofa, curled up under a red-and-black knitted afghan. She was on her side, with one slender arm cradling a throw cushion nestled under her head. Long wavy blond hair spread across her back and her shoulders like a cape. Even though she was sleeping, Alex could see how pretty she was, with her delicate, almost elfin features. He stood in the doorway, watching the soft rise and fall of her chest."

"I’m well aware that this—that I—am the first man to ever do this to her. And yes, as a guy, thatfact makes it even better. You know who Neil Armstrong is, don’t you?Now tell me who the second guy was. Hell, tell me any other guy you know who made it to themoon after him. You can’t, can you? That’s why this is such a rush. She’ll never forget this. She’ll always remember…me. Maybe that’s chauvinistic and egotistical, but it’s the truth.-Drew Evans"

"I want to talk to you. I want to listen to you. I want to walk with you and, yes, I want you in my bed. That's what I want today. That's what I'll want in a hundred years. If you promise to be my wife forever, I will pledge myself to your happiness."

"If you can forget the person you love, you have not loved enough."

"She did it, though she hated opera. She hated everything about it. The overblown sense of drama. The violence and lewdness. No one had ever died of heartbreak in Reverie. Betrayal never led to murder. Those things didn’t happen anymore. They had the Realms now. They could experience anything without taking risks. Now, life was Better than Real."

"Shadow and dust shall be reclaimed, earth sealing the tomb from which you came. Dust to dust, ashes to ashes, warrior return, breathe your last. Air, earth, fire, water, hear my voice, obey my order, thrice around your grave do bound, evil sink into the ground. I now invoke the law of three, this is my will, so mote it be."

"You know if you would just do as I say I wouldn't have to hurt you."

"You two were in a cave together?’ said Miss Simpkins in horror.‘Yes,’ said Kate, ‘and it was very, very dark."

"If she were gone I would be nothing. You should think better of yourself than to settle for that."

"The minute I'm in a little pain ... your rough, tough, scary bad boy image totally falls apart."

"Draw a circle, not a heart, around the one you love because a heart can break but a circle goes on forever."

"Even before we met and long after we're both gone, my heart lives inside of yours. I'm forever and ever in love with you."

"This should never have happened, Brishen. We were unimportant, you and I. We weren't supposed to mean anything to anyone."Woman of day," he said slowly. "You mean everything to me."

"All is as if the world did cease to exist. The city's monuments go unseen, its past unheard, and its culture slowly fading in the dismal sea."

"I mean, that star over there is blinking at me madly now, but for how long? An hour or two, or for the next million years? And how long will we sit here like this? Just another moment, or the rest of our lives? You know which one I'd prefer..."

"Fuck me,” I whispered, giving him permission, taking him into my flesh, a soft invitation to madness."

"Love is not maximum emotion. Love is maximum commitment."

"I fell for her like a suicide from a bridge."