Sapphic Romance Quotes

“Years of longing collapse into this one kiss. Everything I’ve held back, everything I’ve buried, surges to the surface. My hand rests on her cheek, fingers delicately brushing skin as velvety as I remember it from my dreams.”
― Tricia Newlan, Echoes of One Night: Forbidden Love Romance

“I can feel her pulse through our linked hands, steady and strong—matching mine.”
― Tricia Newlan, Echoes of One Night: Forbidden Love Romance

“I was dead, before. Now she has touched the life of me, the quick of me; she has put back my flesh and opened me up. Everything is changed.”
― Sarah Waters, Fingersmith

“Hope is a feeling. You can hide from it. You can pretend nothing hurts you. But I've seen your heart, Oskaren Alinac. It might be broken, but it still beats.”
― Victoria Carbol, A Great and Powerful Tyranny

“Next time, just be patient,” she shrugged playfully, testing her limits as she so often felt compelled to do. I liked that about her. Her submission wasn’t automatic; it had to be earned, which made it all the more meaningful.
“Would you like to take that back,” I asked evenly, stepping closer, “or should I make it easier for you to remember to keep your hands to yourself next time?”
― Kanairy Jade, Tender Ties

“Ever since my first week at Vector Line, Vanessa had wanted me to be strong and demand respect for myself and my boundaries. She always respected mine and got upset when I didn’t. She fired Jane for taking advantage of me. She was upset when I didn’t take care of my body and skipped breakfast. She got mad when I ignored my limits and drank because of pressure. She always respected and understood my need for physical space at certain times. And even now, she was pushing me to stand my ground once more. It was why I trusted her more than anyone else.
Maybe that was why surrendering to her never felt like giving up control.
It felt like choosing, for once, to place it in the hands of someone who had never asked me to abandon myself.”
― Kanairy Jade, Tender Ties

“All I knew was I really didn’t want to defy her. Maybe I did before entering this state, but right now I just wanted to be a good girl. Her good girl.”
― Kanairy Jade, Tender Ties

“They exorcised my sparkle. I glittered anyway.”
― Brandon Cloud, A Queer Kind of Hallelujah

“Conversion therapy didn’t cure me. It confirmed me.”
― Brandon Cloud, Small Town Gayby: A Fictional Memoir of Conversion, Cancer, and Coming Out Loud

“I passed as straight until I passed out.”
― Brandon Cloud, Small Town Gayby: A Fictional Memoir of Conversion, Cancer, and Coming Out Loud

“In her kitchen, I found my cravings weren’t culinary.”
― Brandon Cloud, Flour & Fury: A Sweet Rivalry

“I found more grace in drag queens than deacons.”
― Brandon Cloud, A Queer Kind of Hallelujah

“Tears weren’t weakness—they were proof I tried.”
― Brandon Cloud, Beneath the Veil of Tears

“Coming out felt like a hostile takeover.”
― Brandon Cloud, The Closet Strategist

“Take your pick: privilege, nepotism and strategic real estate choices.”
― Aya Canicosa, Of Chasing Raindrops

“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

“Kesha's presence struck me instantly, tall and regal, her mocha skin seeming to glow with intricately coiled dreadlocks. She carried herself like royalty, and in that moment, I knew I'd never seen anyone more captivating. A fierce desire took root in me, undeniable and raw. I wanted her badly”
― Janet Ryan, Between Lesbian Sheets: A Sapphic Love Story of Coming Out and Interracial Romance

“Sixty, single, and discovering lesbian desire—her life was just the prologue to the lesbian ménage à trois she desperately needed.”
― Janet Ryan, The Sapphic Sip Society: An Age Gap, Interracial, Sapphic Ménage à Trois

“Another wonderful release from Alicia Gael. Light on the spice but with a dash of suspense, all mixed in with painful memories, crazy exes and a wonderful cast of side characters who help bring the story to life.”
― Fiona Sawyer

“I want," she whispered, her voice unnervingly low, almost
hollow. A chill snaked down my spine, the same sensation that
haunted my dreams. Dreams where shadows murmured secrets in
voices I didn't recognize, always just before I woke gasping in the
dark.
The room shifted, almost imperceptibly, as though the air itself
was holding its breath.”
― Natalie G. Bergman, Pearl Bound

“A chilling, addictive read with a powerful protagonist. — Kirkus Reviews”
― Kirkus Book Review for Pearl Bound

“So in those books, how do the main characters usually get out of the stuck elevator?”

Willow could only remember two novels with a trapped-in-an-elevator scene. Both had been sapphic romances. In those books, the characters hadn’t put much effort into getting out. They had been too busy having hot sex with each other. But, of course, there was no way she would tell Scottie that.”
― Jae, Sparks

“Look, there’s an emergency hatch," Scottie said. "I could boost you up. Maybe you can reach the hatch and climb out.”

The thoughts of Scottie’s hands on her body, her strong fingers gripping her hips, made the temperature in the elevator seem to rise.”
― Jae, Sparks

“Sin,” she whispered before she was aware of the movement of her own lips.
Sinclaire’s lips twitched at the corners, not quite a smile, but more than enough to make Lark’s stomach do a little flip. “Yes, Lark?”
― K.J. Bradford, Demon for a Knight

“The longer we dated, the more I realized I needed to brace myself. Now, I understood the term "knock out". Her charmed knocked me off my feet. Every compliment slapped my senses silly. Her jokes put me in stitches. She would be the cause of death in my obituary. Death by Ashley Marie Parker”
― Auburn Morrow, 30 Day Trial Period

“You make me laugh."
Parker smiled and opened her mouth to say something, but I wasn't finished. I told her, "Parker, I've never felt this confident in my life and I... I know it's because I decided to change, but I wouldn't have made it this far without you. You bring out a lot of the good in me that I didn't even know I had.”
― Auburn Morrow, 30 Day Trial Period