Queer Romance Quotes

“I can't help this insufferable need to find out what its like to witness every shade of joy on your face”
― Sara Raasch, The Nightmare Before Kissmas

“I’m sorry he died before you figured it out. For what it’s worth, I think you might’ve eventually, without me there to displace your bullshit onto. He was head over heels for you, and everyone knew but you, and maybe him. No, I think he knew.”
― Lee Mandelo, Summer Sons

“Then she buries her face in the crook of my neck, and every breath she breathes feels like a love letter”
― Becky Albertalli, Imogen, Obviously

“You are not a monster! You are a prince. My prince.”
― Rebecca Massey, Beast's Mercy (MM Fairytale Retelling)

“Sully’s heart jammed into his throat as his body caught up to the words that had escaped his mouth. His face got hot and tight, but it was worth it when Elliot’s lips twitched like he wanted to smile even if he couldn’t quite get there.
“Keeping me safe?” Elliot asked, a glimmer of his playfulness peeking out.
“Got it in one.”
― Vanora Lawless, Twisted Tome

“It took a lot not to blurt out that this, right here in Warren's arms, was his favorite spot in the whole wide world.”
― Vanora Lawless, Twisted Tome

“Climbing out of the sidecar, Warren grumbled under his breath, and Elliot tried not to crack a smile. Warren still hated riding in one, but he didn’t particularly enjoy driving a motorcycle either. Elliot gave his shoulder a reassuring pat, and in the moonlight caught the roll of Warren’s eyes. He couldn’t keep a smile down.
“You’re lucky I like you,” Warren said, clearly trying for grumpy, but sounding much too fond.
Nodding, Elliot agreed. “I have been blessed.”
“Damn right.”
― Vanora Lawless, Twisted Tome

“It was so freeing to have someone else be righteously indignant on her behalf. She'd never given herself the space to feel that anger. Somehow, Noelle doing it let her move out of the flashback into a more neutral space.”
― Helena Greer, Season of Love

“Faith pressed a package of oats into her hands. “Here. You can make the crumble while I prepare the berry mix. Unless you’re afraid to get your hands dirty. I use coconut oil instead of melted butter, and you have to really rub it into the oats, the coconut sugar, and the other dry ingredients.”

Tala smirked. “No problem. I’m really good at rubbing until everything is nice and slippery.”
― Jae, Enemies by Nature

“Katie dropped her hands to rest against Will's chest, where she could feel Will's beating heart beneath her fingers, and she forgot to keep track of anything but how right it felt to kiss Will. How glad she was that she had to wait so long and go through so many things, because it meant she could feel that. The rightness, the goodness of it, of the two of them together.”
― Mae Marvel, Everyone I Kissed Since You Got Famous

“A soft chitter escaped Tala between kisses, and Faith smiled against her lips. “God, that’s so sexy. Do that again.”
“Make me,” Tala rasped.”
― Jae, Shifting Nature

“If I ever kiss you again, it’ll be because the paparazzi have their cameras trained on us, not because your lips are incredibly soft and you taste like honey.”
― Jae, Shifting Nature

“And if I kiss you back, it’ll be because we want to convince an audience, not because there would be a much bigger push toward interspecies marriage if humans only knew what amazing kissers Wrasa are.”
― Jae, Shifting Nature

“Sometimes, the bravest thing we can do is begin again.”
― Shubham Garg, GoodBi, Love

“It didn’t break the trance. She wasn’t sure that anything could, and briefly wondered if they’d stay like this until flesh rotted away from bone and they were left to the earth. They would be held together there, too, eternal in the dirt.”
― Ashton Morgan

“Ferocity gathers in Adria’s voice. “I want to see the sun,” she insists.
Her speech is nearly a roar, her wings and horns a jagged, threatening sprawl, but her eyes are soft. Pleading. A girl born to a sunless world. A girl resigned to dying in it.”
― Laura Genn, Between Sun and Shadow

“Her skin is moon-luster white, but with undercurrents of blue, like an entire network of split, broken veins. It stretches like old parchment over the amalgam of enlarged muscles that she presumably calls arms or legs; the bulk is such that I can’t tell if she has only arms and no legs, or vice versa. If she wanted to, she could easily pursue an enemy on all fours, or else wield a freezeshot weapon in every one of her clawed hands. Or feet. My brain spins from trying to process. Wings, too, arch powerfully from her shoulder blades, their span broader than my height. They look like aged leather. I have the strangest urge to, if I were closer, run my fingers across the membrane, see if it feels as strong and solid as it looks.
“Better?” the monster says, sardonic.
She draws her arm back, the ball of false flame now illuminating her face. My breath catches in my throat. She looms above me, even as I rise up on my toes, her height terminating at perhaps eight feet. That arch of jawline could’ve been carved from glass, and likewise the curves of her cheeks, the solid line of her brow—her face is more bones than skin, a skeleton animated, a corpse confused at its own continued breath.”
― Laura Genn, Between Sun and Shadow

“I’ve seen what I am now if I dare to lose control. I have a civil war to quell, a kingdom to uplift, a ransom to earn.
And by the Beyond, damn it all, I want to know what her face looks like under the mask.”
― Laura Genn, Between Sun and Shadow

“Is it truly so terrifying that someone could want you as you are, that you would make every attempt to become someone else entirely?”
― Laura Genn, Between Sun and Shadow

“I wish it were just us. I wish there were another universe, a far-off galaxy, even just one planet where we could be together, hidden away from political conflicts and rising wars. I want to fall asleep and wake up in our own little pocket of private time, orbiting each other, spinning on the selfsame axis, our days and nights in sync until we have no more left to give.”
― Laura Genn, Between Sun and Shadow

“if loving you a choice, I would always avoid you." - Wine Doe: The Golden Secrets”
― Addy Zena, Wine Doe: A Downfall In Orange And Obsession