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Slow Burn Romance Quotes

Quotes tagged as "slow-burn-romance" Showing 1-30 of 194
“He looks like a poem. One of those mournfully beautiful ones with short, unfamiliar words that sound ethereal when spoken and completely nonsensical when thought.”
Velvetoscar, Young & Beautiful

Narik N.Q.
“Your standards aren’t the law, ma’am—with all due respect.
Your daughter doesn’t have to become you to be extraordinary.
She can choose differently.
Live differently.
And still be a miracle.
You just need to stop looking down at her from where you stand—
and look up from where I live.
Then maybe you’ll see what I see.
A goddess—with a heart.”
Narik N.Q., Ink On My Skin!

Narik N.Q.
“She hadn’t been there all those years.
Didn’t know who had held him.
Didn’t know how he had learned to let himself be held.”
Narik N.Q., Ink On My Skin!

Narik N.Q.
“It didn’t rise like a love song.
It rose like a memory that refused to die.
No longer a whisper—
but a vow.
Declared into the vastness of the universe.
Each note struck like a heartbeat—
sure, steady, full of fire.
As though it had learned loss, and joy, and longing—
and returned bearing all of it,
just to lay it at her feet.”
Narik N.Q., Ink On My Skin!

Narik N.Q.
“She looked like… No. There wasn’t a soul on Earth to compare her to.
Just... danger.”
Narik N.Q., Ink On My Skin!

Narik N.Q.
“He loved her because of her heart—that wide, soft, terrifying heart.
The one she carried so openly, so foolishly brave, like it wasn’t breakable at all.
She knew it would get hurt.
But carried it anyway.
But a heart like that never comes cheap.
And the currency was grief.”
Narik N.Q., Ink On My Skin!

Narik N.Q.
“Souls, oh, poor souls—
always pressed against the limits of flesh and bones.”
Narik N.Q., Ink On My Skin!

Narik N.Q.
“And you look like someone who just stepped out of a half-dream. Too breathtaking to be from this world. Yet too real to be just a fragment of my imagination.”
Narik N.Q., Ink On My Skin!

Narik N.Q.
“Death didn’t always knock—sometimes it just walked in, like an old friend visiting again.”
Narik N.Q., Ink On My Skin!

Narik N.Q.
“Her tears were still standing there—quiet sentinels at the edge of her eyes, as though they loved her too much to leave without permission.”
Narik N.Q., Ink On My Skin!

Narik N.Q.
“You did this with love once. Hid it because you thought I wouldn’t want it. You’re doing the same with grief now.”
Narik N.Q., Ink On My Skin!

Narik N.Q.
“We’ve grieved the dead. It’s only fair we celebrate the ones who remain.”
Narik N.Q., Ink On My Skin!

Narik N.Q.
“Because Mother Nature doesn’t discriminate like our invented gods. She loves us all the same. And kills us all the same.”
Narik N.Q., Ink On My Skin!

Talia Basma
“He’d spill his whole soul for her giggles.”
Talia Basma, Love Not Required

Isabel van Loen
“It feels like I’m living in two worlds at once. One where I steam milk and refill napkin dispensers. And one where David Montclair says things like "I'll take care of the rest.”
Isabel van Loen, Lowered Lashes

Narik N.Q.
“She had to be there.
Somewhere.
In a room.
At a window.
Breathing the same night air.
Looking at the same moon.”
Narik N.Q., Ink On My Skin!

Nadia El-Fassi
“I am entitled to my own opinions, Ellis."
"And do you still stand by it?"
Rosemary pouted her lower lip out. Biteable.
"For now. Until you prove me otherwise."
Before he could say anything else, Rosemary peeled away, leaving the scent of lavender in her wake.”
Nadia El-Fassi, Love at First Fright

Dilussions
“Not every love story promises forever — sometimes it promises a single moment that changes everything.”
Dilussions, His Secret Heart: A Slow-Burn Contemporary Romance Novel of Secrets, Healing, and Fragile Truths

Ashley Earley
“Her every move careful not to disturb my injured chest. Then there was the way she sighed my name, quietly. Sending a different shudder through my limbs.”
Ashley Earley, Forbidden Captive

Ashley Earley
“Beginning anew was the only way to have a life at all, but to avoid my old life was to abandon.”
Ashley Earley, Forbidden Captive

Ashley Earley
“By the time her eyes found me, she couldn’t speak. I watched how the light left her crystal-blue eyes. Still, when her eyes became lifeless to the world around us, it seemed so sudden.
I didn’t care if I was showing weakness.
I let fear swallow me whole. Agony suffocating my heart, I allowed my tears to fall.”
Ashley Earley, Forbidden Captive

Ashley Earley
“I bit back a shout as my fresh burns burst with pain. The bars dug into my back—the only part of my body that remained unharmed. Despite that, she was not touching any of my wounds. She knew where all of them were, yet she wasn’t digging into them to get me to submit—like her red-cloaked companion surely would have if their places had been reversed.”
Ashley Earley, Forbidden Captive

Ashley Earley
“When I had taken the whip to the Viking, my mind had clouded. Anger had corrupted my thoughts—claimed my body and mind. Losing myself to the harsh emotion had scared me. I felt like the bloodthirsty beast the Viking saw whenever he looked at me, and I never wanted to be that.”
Ashley Earley, Forbidden Captive

Ashley Earley
“My mind was still reeling from having saved her. I was not entirely sure why I had acted so irrationally. Something had just … snapped. When it came down to it, I couldn’t let her die. I was unable to take her life, and I couldn’t walk away when another had tried.”
Ashley Earley, Forbidden Captive

Ashley Earley
“I wanted to eliminate what remained of curses and judgment and the hatred we had been spat our whole lives. Because this—this was something I could not ignore. This was something bigger than I could explain. And I was more than confident I was not the only one who felt such an urge for the forbidden.”
Ashley Earley, Forbidden Captive

Ashley Earley
“Closing in, I moved from behind to loop around the trees beside him, knowing once we reached the small clearing ahead, there would be nothing to separate us. Once he broke into the moonlight, there would be nowhere for him to hide.”
Ashley Earley, Forbidden Captive

Ashley Earley
“I swallowed the repulsion of having her so close, my fingers eager for the ax lying just out of reach.”
Ashley Earley, Forbidden Captive

Ashley Earley
“I needed to hear her, to know she was here. But I couldn’t reach her—couldn’t open my eyes to search for her. The aching pang had me trapped in the fog of my mind, keeping me from reaching her through the haze.”
Ashley Earley, Forbidden Captive

Ashley Earley
“It had taken me a while to realize she was beautiful. But once I got up close to her, once I spent so much time around her, finding those sharp, green eyes watching me with a threat or the spark of something else—there was no going back. I had broken through her barriers and my own prejudices, and there was no undoing it.”
Ashley Earley, Forbidden Captive

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