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50 Lovey-Dovey Quotes About Relationships From Romance Novelists

Love isn't always easy, but it is worth it.
Holly Riordan
June 29, 2016
“I was a fool! Loving someone who doesn't love you is hell! Don't ever let anyone convince you that you can be happy with someone who doesn't love you.”
— Judith McNaught, Once and Always
Tagged: Love, Unrequited Love
“Which brings me to the question of why we always 'fall' in love. One falls down steps, off ladders, into rivers and down mountains. If love is so wonderful, why don't we soar in love or climb in love?”
— Judith McNaught, Once and Always
Tagged: Love, Fall in love
“The best love is the kind that weakens the soul, that makes us reach for more. That plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds.”
— Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife
Tagged: Love, Hearts, Souls, minds
“It's an odd thing about love. When someone you love cries, your heart melts. But when someone you don't love cries, you look at them and think, Why are you telling 'me' this?”
— Jude Deveraux, Wild Orchids
Tagged: Love, Crying, Hearts
“We women aren't good at hints. We like solid declarations of love and forever.”
— Jude Deveraux, True Love: A Nantucket Brides Novel (Nantucket Brides Trilogy)
Tagged: Love, Forever, hints
“The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much.”
— Jane Austen, Jane Austen: The Complete Works: Classics hardcover boxed set (A Penguin Classics Hardcover)
Tagged: Love, Expectations, Standards
“All I can say is that you make me... you make me into someone I couldn't even imagine. You make me happy, even when you're awful. I would rather be with you - even the you that you seem to think is diminished - than with anyone else in the world.”
— Jojo Moyes, [ ME BEFORE YOU ] By Moyes, Jojo ( Author) 2012 [ Hardcover ]
Tagged: Love, Friendship
“I kissed him and let my lips rest against his so that our breath mingled and the tears from my eyes became salt on his skin, and I told myself that, somewhere, tiny particles of him would become tiny particles of me, ingested, swallowed, alive, perpetual. I wanted to press every bit of me against him.”
— Jojo Moyes, Me Before You: A Novel (Movie Tie-In)
Tagged: Kissing, Love
“I loved a man who had opened up a world to me but hadn’t loved me enough to stay in it.”
— Jojo Moyes, After You: A Novel
Tagged: Love, Death, breakup
“He always cared for her. He always loved her. He’s madly in love with her. She’s his Love, actually. She’s his Casablanca. She’s the one he’d stop the bus for, the one he’d run through traffic for, the one he’d drive like a crazy man to the airport for and run through the terminal to stop the plane. Her name’s above the title for him. She’s the opening credit and the closing credit. She’s the love of his life.”
— Lauren Blakely, Caught Up in Her (Caught Up in Love)
Tagged: Love, soulmates
“But you don’t get the girl until you’ve gotten the girl. And even then you have to put in the effort every single day to keep her. You don’t win before you’ve won. You keep playing, and fighting for love every day.”
— Lauren Blakely, Sinful Nights Bundle: Books 1-3
Tagged: Hard Work, Effort, Relationships
“Love isn’t a quilt. Love isn’t patient, love isn’t kind. Love is a game, a chase, a thrill. Love is wild and war-like, and every man and woman must fight for themselves.”
— Lauren Blakely, The Thrill Of It
Tagged: Love, Games, War
“You’re you, and you are everything in the world to me. Every. Single. Thing.”
— Lauren Blakely, No Regrets
Tagged: Love, Dating, Relationships
“I’ve always seen you, angel. From the moment you found me, I’ve seen nothing but you.”
— Sylvia Day, Entwined with You (Crossfire, Book 3)
Tagged: Love, Dating
“I'd rather argue with you, angel, then laugh with anyone else.”
— Sylvia Day, Entwined with You (Crossfire, Book 3)
Tagged: Fighting, Laughter
“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.”
— Lisa Kleypas, Blue-Eyed Devil
Tagged: soulmates, Flaws, Love, Fear of losing someone
“I want morning and noon and nightfall with you. I want your tears, your smiles, your kisses. The smell of your hair, the taste of your skin, the touch of your breath on my face. I want to see you in the final hour of my life, to lie in your arms as I take my last breath.”
— Lisa Kleypas, Again The Magic
Tagged: Love, Marriage, Dating
“I want you any way I can get you. Not because you’re beautiful or clever or kind or adorable, although devil knows you’re all those things. I want you because there’s no one else like you, and I don’t ever want to start a day without seeing you.”
— Lisa Kleypas, Tempt Me At Twilight
Tagged: beauty, Love, Marriage
“There is nothing on earth more beautiful to me than your smile. No sound sweeter than your laughter. No pleasure greater than holding you in my arms. I realized today that I could never live without you, stubborn little hellion that you are. In this life and the next, you’re my only hope of happiness.”
— Lisa Kleypas, It Happened One Autumn: The Wallflowers, Book 2
Tagged: Love, Happiness, beauty
“Mysteries of attraction could not always be explained through logic. Sometimes the fractures in two separate souls became the very hinges that held them together.”
— Lisa Kleypas, The Devil in Winter (The Wallflowers, Book 3)
Tagged: Attraction, Souls, Love