Mature Romance Quotes

“Love isn't just butterflies and grand gestures; it's the quiet comfort of knowing you're understood.”
― Rendi Ansyah, Beyond the Bouquet: A Symphony of Love in Fifty Movements

“I told you I don't want to meet 'girls' and I'm not going to find a woman of any substance at the bars where you yahoos hang out."
"Then set up one of those online dating accounts. They have them for older folks now."
"Older folks?" Rohn let out a snort as that hit him hard, like a punch to the gut.
"Great. Thanks a lot." How the hell old did these kids think he was, anyway? Rohn had quite a few years left before he turned fifty....”
― Cat Johnson, Midnight Wrangler

“Dusty:... how long was I asleep?

Jed: Too long if you're sleeping without me.”
― Abby Knox, Her Hi-Fi Hunk

“Neemai sat in silence. These were plenty of delicate issues, and the tiniest careless assumption could throw him into the whirlwind of sentimentality. He had speculated an inkling of Scarlet Amorin’s fate, the experience of the world had whispered that something terrible had happened in the house. As for the culprit of the fate, he dared not to guess.

Matters of the family tend to be the most frangible affairs, as he had rightly absorbed from his observations in quietude. Things would have been easier if those were in black and white, but it is rather in shades of glaucous and grey, and any reckoning is as good as guesstimate.

While his brain reasoned and warned to tread carefully, his heart yearned to hold the Rosie of his imagination. Her pain was in his imagination, he knew that, and it was well past. In real life, it would have been unbearable for her.”
― Ajanta Sengupta, Unlettered