Romance Quote by V.S. Carnes — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“He smelled the salt on his own lips and the orange blossoms in her hair. Real ones, he could see now, tucked into the curls with cheap, native combs. The sight of them gave him hope.”

“She was a little thing, too, inciting that basic compulsion in him as a man to protect her in so hectic a place as post-war Israel. Even so, his actions were borne out of an entirely different instinct, altogether: to fool her and anyone within a dart's range... to protect himself.”

“It was a question of insurmountable proportions. A single word that held every fear he had ever had-and every wish he had ever made on those cursed stars. She needn't say more. In a single syllable, she had said more than he wanted to hear in an entire lifetime.”

“Looking back at him was a man who was battered and broken.”

“I've crossed a world of sand and tears in search of you.”

“No fairy tale, this. This was by no stretch of the imagination a polished fantasy. This was a searing, living force, rough around the edges, unfamiliar and bittersweet.”

“You know, reading makes your penis look bigger - don't quote me on it, the science is really new.”

“People get stupid when they're in love; people want what they can't have; and the years between ages twelve and eighteen always, always suck.”

“He loved her all he could; but he couldn't love her very much.”

“If I were being honest with myself, he lit a blaze, not just a blush, but that’s too much reality for me to admit.”

“He took the pen and book from her and faltered.”

“I can’t wait for the day when we’ll never have to say ‘goodbye’ to each other again.”