Epic Fantasy Romance Quotes

If a woman was unattached and in possession of a pulse, she would not long remain unwilling in the face of a determined Calbernan's courtship. ~ C.L. Wilson

Collin, how do you do it?"
He tilted his head as he looked at me. "Do what?"
"Make me feel this way."
"I could ask you the same question. ~ Nicole Gulla

She had prayed for someone else, anyone else but Den. She'd been hoping for a nice, quiet man like Papa. Instead, the gods had sent her the man who'd scorched the world. ~ C.L. Wilson

You're impatient," he says. "I like it. ~ Amanda Bouchet

She'd never in her life looked at a man and felt like a starving beggar standing before a sumptuous feast. She'd all but licked her lips at the sight of him. ~ C.L. Wilson

I didn't have to think about the word love with Collin because I just felt it. This was love. And. I. Loved. Him. ~ Nicole Gulla

I am not a good man, shei'tani," he corrected. "I never have been. But for you I will strive to be better. ~ C.L. Wilson

I thought you of all people would understand."
"Understand what? Being an idiot?"
That seems to surprise him enough to add something new to his countenance. A trace of humor softens the stark lines of his face. "No." A wry smile just barely curves his lips. "Maybe."
"I am an expert idiot," I say. "I practice all the time. ~ Amanda Bouchet

I'm the forest fire, and you're standing there with a glass of water saying you can put me out. But you can't!"
He arched his brows. "Considering that I've spent the better part of the last fourteen hours proving that I can, in fact, light your fire and put it out over and over again, I'm vaguely insulted by that remark. ~ C.L. Wilson

Dendera silences me with a hand on my cheek. "You listen to me, Meira Dynam. Yes, you have made mistakes, but I have watched you succumb to this role over the past few months, and that, I believe, is the biggest mistake you have made. The biggest mistake we all made. We've all been afraid, and Meira, you look at me. You saved us. You, this beautiful, wild girl before me - you saved us. So be you again, and whoever that is will be exactly what we need. ~ Sara Raasch

I don't want you."
He moved so quickly she barely had time to gasp before he lifted her off her feet, fused his mouth to hers, and kissed her until her brain melted. Then he set her back on her wobbly legs and said," That was for the lie. And for future reference, myerina, wrapping your legs around a man and commanding him to pleasure you is not an effective way to illustrate your lack of interest. ~ C.L. Wilson

Ellysetta Baristani is my shei'tani." His eyes found hers. "My truemate." A murmur of voices rippled through the crowd.
"Please tell the court what a truemate is."
"A truemate is the person who holds the other half of a Fey's soul." His gaze never left hers, and Ellie felt the magic of his voice wrapping her in imperceptible weaves of longing. "It is the most sacred bond known to any Fey, more sacred than that between a king and his subjects, more sacred even than that between a mother and a child. ~ C.L. Wilson

He leaves. Just like that. No final good-bye, no last, lingering glance.
Like we never loved each other at all. ~ Sara Raasch

Keep looking like you want to eat me up, moa halea, and I'll let you." His voice was a hard, rough rumble. ~ C.L. Wilson

It wasn't supposed to be this way. Griffin asked me to take a chance. On him. On trust. On love. I did, and look where it got me. That my misery is my own damn fault doesn't escape me. It just makes it worse. ~ Amanda Bouchet

I'm… " I stop, at a loss.
Griffin lifts his eyebrows. "Inarticulate at the moment?"
Scowling, I thwack him in the chest.
"Overwrought?" he supplies, his mouth quirking up.
I thwack him again.
"Highly emotional?"
Thwack. Thwack.
"Apparently weak, because none of that hurt at all. ~ Amanda Bouchet

Calberna's prince was too big. Too male. Too unsettling. Too appealing. Too… everything. And for her, that made Dilys Merimydion pure, deadly poison wrapped up in a dangerously tempting package. ~ C.L. Wilson

Dark, shadowy figures moved closer, circling.
Torel pulled his two seyani longswords free of their scabbards. "Come, then!" He shouted. "Come dance with the tairen, if you dare! Miora felah ti' Feyreisa! Joy to the Feyreisa! And death to you all!"
And he became a whirling blur of motion - black leather, shining steel, red blood - spinning in the moonlight, delivering death to all he touched until he moved no more. ~ C.L. Wilson

I'm sure you already know this, but you need to actually climb into a bath to get clean - not stare at it. ~ Sarah J. Maas

Rain watched as his five best warriors squeezed into the tiny parlor, picked their way through the jungle of wedding gifts as if tiptoeing through a nest of Drogan sand vipers, and settled down with stone-faced stoicism to proceed with the humiliating un-warrior-like task of opening presents ...
Five lethal glances speared him. For the first time in a thousand years, Rain Tairen Soul threw back his head and laughed. ~ C.L. Wilson

Mather lifts a white eyebrow. "You don't have to actually yell, if you don't want to. Slightly elevated whispering would be fine. ~ Sara Raasch

What do you fear so much, that you would run so hard from what you want? ~ C.L. Wilson

What happened yesterday was a mistake, but it's over now. In the past, I've forgotten it, and so should you."
His brows rose. "You have forgotten? This, I do not believe." He stepped closer again. She retreated up another stair. "What passed between us was not forgettable. I am not forgettable. Not to you."
"You have a high opinion of yourself."
"No higher than deserved. But I know when a woman looks at me and likes what she sees. And I know when she wants more. ~ C.L. Wilson

Isn't this a little... morbid?"...
"Morbid?" I mange half a smile. "Or cathartic?"
"Most cathartic things are morbid," he amends. "Healing through melancholy."
I roll my eyes. "Leave it to you to find something poetic about slicing off the heads of snowmen. ~ Sara Raasch

There are multiple roads. You alone choose the ones you take. Some lead to the same destination via different pathways. Others lead to similar or dissimilar outcomes, depending on where you turn. ~ Amanda Bouchet

He must prove himself strong enough to protect her, gentle enough to win her heart, and worthy of the great gift of her love and her unconditional trust. She must find the courage to embrace the darkest shadows of his soul, and the even greater courage to bare the shadows of her own soul to him. When all barriers are sundered, all secrets revealed and accepted, she can complete the bond; and they will no longer be two separate people, but rather one person, one soul, complete for eternity, stronger together than either could ever be apart. ~ C.L. Wilson

My bare arms are only a relief for the first few minutes before the unobstructed sun finds my fair skin, and I swear I can hear the rays chuckle with delight at such a tasty meal. ~ Sara Raasch

I let my towel drop to the carpet.
Let him look me over as I put a hand on his chest, his heart raging beneath my palm.
"Ready for ravishing. ~ Sarah J. Maas

I came here as a son seeking his father's approval, hoping you could recognize what she and I have. But, it appears you're business as usual. ~ Nicole Gulla

Where magic is the essence of existence and those who wield it, rarely what they seem ~ Kathryn Royce-Martin

And Giselle just saw the Cordellan heir give away pieces of Winter.
Theron had no right to do this. ~ Sara Raasch

Ellysetta Baristani." Belliard's voice caused her to stop and turn back around. "Even should you clothe yourself in rags and dirt, you would bring honor to the Fey. ~ C.L. Wilson

I braced my hands on my hips, examining the drop, the trees, the lake beyond. "What did I do wrong?"

Azriel, who had been sharpening Truth-Teller in his lap, flicked his hazel eyes up to me. "Aside from the tree? ~ Sarah J. Maas

What in Helos's name had just happened? The Calbernan had turned unexpectedly and caught her gaze upon him and then…
She dragged in a breath, then another. Ragged. Shaken. She couldn't even begin to describe what had happened. It was as if, with one look, he'd dived into the deepest, most secret parts of her soul, places no one – not even she – had ever been. ~ C.L. Wilson

Thou art mine, Dilys Merimydion. Mine and no other's. ~ C.L. Wilson

Like the sea, from which we derive our gifts, we are wild at heart, and deadly when angered. ~ C.L. Wilson

She'd never kissed a man. She'd wanted to a few times before, but she'd never allowed herself to do so. Now, the instant his mouth touched hers, she knew she'd never want to kiss any man but him for the rest of her life. He was her one and only. He was everything she would ever want, everything she could ever need. ~ C.L. Wilson

Before, I never knew how far I would go. Now I believe I have the answer. I will go as far as there is to go. I will go way too far. ~ Holly Black

True siblings are bound together by far more essential things than blood, while more times than many blood isn't thicker than water. ~ Constantina Maud

She seemed like the kind of woman who would fall in love with the sky. ~ Nenia Campbell

Our enemies-my enemies-wouldn't win. The demon lizards had hurt me for the last time. Now, they had a new foe, and I would make sure they remembered my name when I destroyed them on the battlefield.
I would work hard.
I would excel.
I would become the perfect soldier. ~ Julie Kagawa

Just as foreplay is the key to good sex, preparation is essential to achieving victory in battle. Right, lieutenant? ~ Natalia Marx

Gavin, Logan, Calix. Was there a sale on trendy names when they were born, or something? ~ Keri Lake

We'll be all right. Somehow, we will. Trust it is the truth. ~ Elizabeth Morgan

This is my love line ... It says an incredibly sexy, but totally infuriating redheaded woman with barge into my life and drive me insane. ~ Denise Grover Swank

Don't you get it Cat? You're the key. I knew it the day I laid eyes on you. ~ Amanda Bouchet

Marcus gave her a slow, wicked smile, feeling the smoldering heat rise to the surface like molten lava, irresistible as a force of nature. "If you insist," he whispered, and bent his head to capture her lips with his own. He put all his yearning, all his gratitude for the gifts she'd given him, all that heat bubbling up within him into the kiss, feeling her lips yield beneath his.
She returned his fire with fire, kissing him back with a wild abandon that left them both trembling and enraptured, wrapped around each other in the midst of a crowd, focused only on each other.
Overhead, fireworks lit the sky, but neither of them noticed. ~ Deborah Blake

The blade hovered between us. I could kill him. He could kill me. That's how it was meant to be - there could be nothing else between us now. ~ Jill Criswell

Thank you, miss ... ?"
"Annabelle." She dropped a napkin onto his lap and smiled. "And might I say you are a handsome gent. Beautiful green eyes! I can see why Miss Ayden fancies your company!"
Kane frowned. "Miss Ayden? Is this the same creepy woman with the gray eyes and weapons arsenal dangling from her hips?"
"Why yes, sir. Although, she's not so scary, once you get to know her." Anna backed away and clasped her fingers together. "Bit of a sweet spot she has." She winked.
"Yeah. I noticed. ~ Keri Lake

Talking big in dark corners seldom achieves anything other than getting you into trouble. ~ Alpha Four

Secret societies ... like the Skulls or the Free Masons?"
"What do you know about them?" he asked, feeling me out.
"Limited. I've seen a couple of movies with Johnny Depp and Paul Walker a while back. They're societies that have high influence over things like the American and foreign governments. ~ Nicole Gulla

I glanced into his emerald green eyes and felt the depth of my feelings unravel. If anything, my feelings were stronger because my heart longed to be with him. ~ B. Truly

If he sees you unclothed, I will have to kill him," he spoke in her ear. She didn't know if she should believe him or not, but she took no chances. "Tell him to leave, then," she said calmly but sternly. ~ Madison Thorne Grey

He kissed her stopping her words at once. A pronounced number of gasps resonated across the room. ~ Terry Spear

It's been a while since I've wanted to smile."
"So all you needed was sex?" he teased. ~ Donna Grant

To love someone is easy. To keep it is a risk ~ Natasja Hellenthal

Collin! What a gorgeous name. Then again his name could have been Cracker Jack and I would have thought it was just as wonderful. ~ Nicole Gulla

He raised her hand to his lips and kissed it, a tender gesture that made her heart melt. Come. Let us dance the skies together. ~ C.L. Wilson

If the pit of love never ceases, I will continue to look for the bottom, so you can have it all. ~ Jacob L. White

My body felt alive.
I need more.
"Valkyrie," Fen growled, eyes locked on my mouth. "Put your lips back on mine, and I will give you what you crave. ~ Amanda Carlson

Gavin, I never thought you'd be the irrational one in this relationship, but I'm happy to report that you've just thoroughly shocked me."
He rolled to his side to lean on his arm, keeping my hand resting on his chest, buried underneath his shirt. "I know. My timing is impeccable." He smirked, letting his hungry gaze drift over my body. "But I'm sorry, love. I cannot take seeing you all tucked up in this sexy corset anymore. The ties are so tight, they're just begging me to undo them." His fingers trailed over the top of my chest and down over the corset's binding, tugging at the edges of the lace as he went. "Forcefully," he winked. ~ Rachael Wade

Lord Hawksheart said we should stay together," she reminded him. ' Do not leave your mate's side,' he said. 'You hold each other to the Light,' he said. And he said we could only defeat the Darkness together."
"He said many things. Most of which I don't trust."
The safest place for me is at your side. Whatever happens, we face it together."
His eyes closed and he nodded. "Doreh Shabeila de." So shall it be. ~ C.L. Wilson

Writing a novel is like reading a book, you have to keep at it if you want to find out what happens next. ~ Sharleen Nelson

I was flipping back and forth between do and don't quicker than they were serving up flapjacks down at the diner, he was getting closer to me.... close enough that I could smell him.... smell the heat that he threw off and that other certain energy that was pouring off of him right now at levels I'd not seen since Chernobyl. If I didn't move soon, I'd be in trouble... or ecstasy. ~ Donna Augustine

I figured even the most jaded and cynical inhabitant might report a bloody girl in a party dress carrying a severed head by its hair. ~ Faith Hunter

I'm not mean to everybody. I'm only mean to people whose intellectual level is awfully lower than mine. ~ Alexandra Engellmann

How else do I describe what I see…what I feel? When I look at a plant, I do not see a green object. I see Life. I see energy. I see a will to exist like no other. When I see an animal, I see more than fur and bone and blood. I see Love. Love is all around us. And in us. And through us. Love is us. It is everywhere. I see it. I feel it. I hear it. I only wish all of you could, too. If you could experience what I do every moment of every day, there would be no anger, no hate, no killing. I want to share what I know with the entire universe, but my words fall on deaf ears. People go right on fighting and hating and killing. And there is nothing I can do. ~ Simon Skiles

They take my breath away, Killian. How grand and marvelous, how utterly magnificent they are. I have never beheld such an astounding, impressive sight. Apart from seeing you unclothed, of course," she added. ~ Leigh Ann Edwards

I want to hear you cry out in pleasure again."
"All you have to do is touch me. ~ Donna Grant

With every fall of the sun and rise of the moon, I can hear it. The Prophecy. It echoes through the halls of time. It is written on the surface of every star. Even the sun and moon cannot withhold the news of the second coming. I hear it. And I fear it. ~ Brian A. McBride

And against whom is this censorship directed? By way of answer, think back to the big subcultural debates of 2011 – debates about how gritty fantasy isn't really fantasy; how epic fantasy written from the female gaze isn't really fantasy; how women should stop complaining about sexism in comics because clearly, they just hate comics; how trying to incorporate non-Eurocentric settings into fantasy is just political correctness gone wrong and a betrayal of the genre's origins; how anyone who finds the portrayal of women and relationships in YA novels problematic really just wants to hate on the choices of female authors and readers; how aspiring authors and bloggers shouldn't post negative reviews online, because it could hurt their careers; how there's no homophobia in publishing houses, so the lack of gay YA protagonists can only be because the manuscripts that feature them are bad; how there's nothing problematic about lots of pretty dead girls on YA covers; how there's nothing wrong with SF getting called 'dystopia' when it's marketed to teenage girls, because girls don't read SF. Most these issues relate to fear of change in the genre, and to deeper social problems like sexism and racism; but they are also about criticism, and the freedom of readers, bloggers and authors alike to critique SFF and YA novels without a backlash that declares them heretical for doing so.


It's not enough any more to tiptoe around the issues that matter, refusing to name the wor ~ Foz Meadows