#roman

I wondered what happened when you offered yourself to someone, and they opened you, only to discover you were not the gift they expected and they had to smile and nod and say thank you all the same. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#julia-romano #love #unrequited #dating

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

#romance #work #dreams

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

#poets #romance #experience

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

#romance #unrequited-love #food

The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone. ↗

— Jane Austen

#friendship

I’d said it before and meant it: Alive or undead, the love of my life was a badass. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#humor #paranormal-romance #rose #urban-fantasy #vampire

Only a true best friend can protect you from your immortal enemies. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#humor #romance #friendship

You guessed? You must have been pretty sure, considering you could have killed me." "I was ninety percent sure." "I see," Clary said. There must have been something in her voice, because he turned to look at her. Her hand cracked across his face, a slap that rocked him back on his heels. He put his hands on his cheek, more in surprise than pain. "What the hell was that for?" "The other ten percent. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#humor #novel #paranormal #romance #humor

You here to finish me off, Sweetheart? ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#hunger-games #katniss #mellark #peeta #romance

You so need to lighten up about that potato-launcher incident," Butch said. Phury rolled his eyes and eased back in the banquette. "You broke my window." "Of course we did. V and I were aiming for it." "Twice." "Thus proving that he and I are outstanding marksmen. ↗

— J.R. Ward

#humor #paranormal #romance #vampires #humor