Angsty Romance Quotes

“I guess it takes one to know one, and two can play that game.”
― Siobhan Davis, Finding Kyler

“He closes his eyes briefly and looks as if he might say something, but he doesn't, and sometimes when people don't speak, they say everything , don't they?”
― Ilsa Madden-Mills, Dear Ava

“Wracking sobs rip from the innermost chamber of my heart, and I give into them, allowing them to fully take over. Pain lances me on all sides, and I bury my head in my knees, giving in to the heartache.
I cry for my parents.
For my lost life.
For the threat that Addison poses, scaring me in ways it shouldn’t.
For a boy I can’t have and shouldn’t want.
For the never-ending gut-wrenching hollow ache in my chest and the soul-crushing loneliness I feel.”
― Siobhan Davis, Finding Kyler

“I don’t think I’d feel any more violated if he’d stripped me bare. I might as well have lain down before him openly exposing all my flaws and my fears, inviting him to psychoanalyze me.”
― Siobhan Davis, Finding Kyler

“I want to slap him.
Curse him.
Scream at him.
Slap him some more.
I want to reach a hand into his chest and squeeze that life-sustaining organ until he collapses from the lack of blood flow and the agonizing pain pummeling his heart until it’s scarcely beating.
I want him to hurt so badly that he can barely breathe while strips tear from his heart.
I want him to feel everything I’m feeling.
To hurt as much as I do.
I want all that.
But I can’t convince myself it’s the truth.
Because I love him too much.
I don’t want him to hurt like that.”
― Siobhan Davis, Losing Kyler

“He grunts. "Really? No one wanted them to be together. None of the gods approved. Who'd love the kind of the underworld?"
"The right person.”
― Ilsa Madden-Mills, Dear Ava

“I was doomed. Fated to follow her and this quest till the end. Even if it led me to the darkest pit of hell. I heaved a deep sigh.

Maybe the darkest pit in hell was worth it.”
― Juliette Cross, Darkest Heart

“A surge of emotion so strong washed over me like a tsunami wiping everything in its path. Everything I knew before was gone in an instant. And I knew the truth.
I knew I loved him dangerously.”
― Siobhan Davis, Loving Kalvin

“I don’t know how to exist without him,” I admit truthfully. “He has always been a part of me, and trying to survive without him is slowly chipping away at my soul, yet the hurt still exists, refusing to go away. It devastated me, Liv, and it turns my stomach every time I think of it, yet the images won’t go away. They are as sharp in my mind as if I was an actual fly on the wall. If there was a defining moment, that was definitely it.”
― Siobhan Davis, Loving Kalvin

“This is why I spent so long fighting my feelings for you. You don’t belong in my world. You’re too good for it. For me. I thought I was ready to be who you needed me to be, but I fell at the first hurdle.”
― Siobhan Davis, Losing Kyler

“How fitting an end to us. You can't love me, and I can't look at you every day and pretend to not love you,”
― C.A. Night, Radiant

“I lie awake in bed until way past midnight, fervently hoping Ky is going make an appearance at any moment to explain his behavior. But as the clock chimes two, I have no choice but to face facts.
He isn’t coming.
And it feels ominous.
Like the winds are changing, and destiny is altering.
His absence is more than telling.
It has a finality to it that scares me half to death.”
― Siobhan Davis, Losing Kyler

“I lean my head back and stare at the stark white ceiling. “My friend Zoe used to say I had obsessive compulsive disorder when it came to Kalvin Kennedy, and I argued nonstop with her about it, but she was right. I see that now. There was nothing healthy or normal about the way I crushed on him. I had no interest in slapping 1D on my walls when the hottest boy on the planet lived in the house next door.”
― Siobhan Davis, Loving Kalvin

“Even after all the hurt and the pain, I still love you so much. Probably too much for someone my age. I used to believe it was because we were made for each other. That we had a special kind of love most people never find. Now, I wonder if it’s the opposite. If we were put together to show the destructive side of love.
You have always been my light and my dark.
My sun and shadow.
My strength and weakness.
You bring out the best and the worst in me.”
― Siobhan Davis, Loving Kalvin

“I want you to need me but not half as much as I want you to want me.”
― Siobhan Davis, Losing Kyler

“Brad is a natural—perfect boyfriend material—if only I swung that way.”
― Siobhan Davis, Losing Kyler

“My entire life has been one big, fat whopper of a lie, and my parents betrayed me in the worst possible way.
I don’t care if they believed they were protecting me.
You don’t lie to the people you profess to love, no matter how painful the truth is.”
― Siobhan Davis, Losing Kyler

“I want to make Romeo
jealous. I want the dead
lovers of the world to
hear our laughter,
and grow sad.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“I thought my heart had healed from the soul splitting anguish she’d caused me. As I watched her disappear from sight, another man’s arm around her, I wondered if I’d ever had a stitch in it at all.”
― Sarah A. Bailey, The Soulmate Theory

“How was I supposed to explain that it was the kind of kiss that kept me up at night for years on end? The kind of kiss that made my skin feel like pinpricks whenever I thought about it, even now. The kind of kiss I’ve been wanting to replicate since the day it happened but have yet to experience anything that even comes close.”
― Sarah A. Bailey, The Soulmate Theory

“I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell, I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth.
I would know him in the death, at the end of the world”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“This whole time, I’m staring at Ky—the one person I thought I had by my side. The one person who truly understands me, who has the power to make everything okay just by his mere presence.
But I’ve lost him too.
He’s been cruelly taken from me just as I felt he was finally mine.
I have no one.
And I’ve never felt more alone or more jaded with this life.”
― Siobhan Davis, Losing Kyler

“I’m proud of you too, if it means anything. I’ve always envied your strength, and stubbornness isn’t always a bad thing. Especially when it keeps you alive because if there’s one thing I hate in this world more than you being back…” His thumb caressed my wrist, leaving behind trails of electricity. “It’s living in it without you.”
― Clara Elroy, Lick of Fire

“How I hate you Saxton. I had the right impression the first time. You are a cold, unforgiving bastard.”
― C.A. Night

“The compunction at my denial had not been as sharp as the agony of him thinking all his assumptions of me as being just.”
― C.A. Night, Radiant

“I’d spent years replacing her lips with so many others, all in an attempt to heal the scars she left on mine.”
― Sarah A. Bailey, The Soulmate Theory

“Believe me, I'd love to remember you if I could.”
― Lilian Harris, Shattered Secrets

“You’re not any other girl—you’re different. When I look into your eyes,
I forget my name half of the time.”
― Kristin Lee, On My Knees

“I don't get what you're more mad about. How I didn't tell you? Or why I told her first?”
― Muskan Surana, Untimed

“You are ripping at my heart, Kes. Every time I reach out and you pull back. Every time you offer a smile to someone who's not me. When you doubt me, or mistrust me, or hide your secrets away, it's like a claw that shreds me from within. When we're together, I forget how to breathe, but when we're apart, I realize you've become my air. I want you to take a risk, but take it with me. Risk yourself with me...
If you can't cross this bridge between us, or you won't, then tell me now and let me tear you from my soul. But don't hold me in this awful middle place where I can't get closer and I can't get away from you.”
― Jennifer A. Nielsen, The Traitor's Game