"Kiss me and you'll know how important I am."
— Sylvia Plath

"I set off, off to kill the man I love."
— Richelle Mead (Shadow Kiss (Vampire Academy, #3))

"Are you still faint from the run? Or was it my kissing expertise?"
— Stephenie Meyer (Twilight)

"She glared at me like she was about to punch me, but then she did sokmethign that surprised me even more. She kissed me.
"Be careful seaweed brain." She said putting on her invisiable cap and disappearing.
I probably would have sat there all day, trying to remember my name, but then the sea demons came."
— Rick Riordan (The Battle of the Labyrinth)

""can you read my mind now?" i asked ruefully.
"No, i can just read you. Finally. I can't belive how blind I was. I can't belive i never noticed. Victors comment... he was right."A flash of anger, both her feelings and he eyes hit me. "Why didn't you tell." She cried. "Why didn't you tell me you loved Dimitri!""
— Richelle Mead

"'So then I thought, I'd like you to have something to remember me by, you know, if you ever meet some veela when you're off doing whatever you're doing.'
'I think dating opportunities are going to be pretty thin on the ground, to be honest.'
'There's a silver lining I've been looking for,' she whispered, and then she was kissing him as she never kissed him before, and Harry was kissing her back, and it was a blissful oblivion, better than firewhiskey; she was the only real thing in the world, Ginny, the feel of her, one hand on her back, the other in her long sweet-smelling hair..."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows)

"At that moment I had no mind to change, or not change, or throw against the nearest wall."
— James Patterson

"And when her lips meet mine, I feel a strange tingling I have never felt before…and suddenly a miracle…and I discover a forgotten paradise, unchanged all this time, ageless like the stars. I feel the warmth of her body, and…I allow myself to slip away. I close my eyes and become a mighty ship in churning waters, strong and fearless, and she is my sails."
— Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook)

"adrian will you shut the hell up for five seconds?!!!"
— Richelle Mead (Shadow Kiss (Vampire Academy, #3))

"since feeling is first
who pays any attention
to the syntax of things
will never wholly kiss you;

wholly to be a fool
while Spring is in the world

my blood approves,
and kisses are a far better fate
than wisdom
lady i swear by all flowers. Don't cry
--the best gesture of my brain is less than
your eyelids' flutter which says

we are for eachother: then
laugh, leaning back in my arms
for life's not a paragraph

And death i think is no parenthesis"
— e.e. cummings

"Harry looked around; there was Ginny running toward him; she had a hard blazing look in her face as she threw her arms around him. And without thinking, without planning it, without worrying about the fact that fifty people were watching, Harry kissed her. After several long moments, or it might have been half an hour-or possibly several sunlit days- they broke apart."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince)

"I think Heaven will be like a first kiss.

-Della Lee"
— Sarah Addison Allen (The Sugar Queen)

""Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead.--I shall feel it."

She dropped her head again on Marius' knees, and her eyelids closed. He thought the poor soul had departed. Eponine remained motionless. All at once, at the very moment when Marius fancied her asleep forever, she slowly opened her eyes in which appeared the sombre profundity of death, and said to him in a tone whose sweetness seemed already to proceed from another world:--

"And by the way, Monsieur Marius, I believe that I was a little bit in love with you.""
— Victor Hugo (Les Misérables)

"A kiss on the beach when there is a full moon is the closest thing to heaven."
— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

" I couldn't speak anymore. I lifted my head and kissed him with a passion that might possibly set the forest on fire.
I wouldn't have noticed."
— Stephenie Meyer (Breaking Dawn)

"Well, it's either kiss me or kill me, that's how I see it."
— Tom Waits

"She dropped her head again on Marius' knees, and her eyelids closed. He thought the poor soul had departed. Eponine remained motionless. All at once, at the very moment when Marius fancied her asleep forever, she slowly opened her eyes in which appeared the sombre profundity of death, and said to him in a tone whose sweetness seemed already to proceed from another world:--

"And by the way, Monsieur Marius, I believe that I was a little bit in love with you"
— Victor Hugo (Les Misérables)

"Such a little thing really, a kiss... most people don't give it a moment's consideration. They kiss on meeting, they kiss on parting, that simple touching of flesh is taken entirely for granted as a basic human right."
— Susan Kay

"Your kiss is bitter with cocaine."
— Aleister Crowley (Diary of a Drug Fiend)

"O Mistress mine, where are you roaming?
O, stay and hear; your true love's coming,
That can sing both high and low:
Trip no further, pretty sweeting;
Journeys end in lovers meeting,
Every wise man's son doth know.
What is love? 'Tis not hereafter;
Present mirth hath present laughter;
What's to come is still unsure:
In delay there lies not plenty;
Then, come kiss me, sweet and twenty,
Youth's a stuff will not endure."
— William Shakespeare

"How she felt when he kissed her- like a tub of roses swimming in honey, cologne, nutmeg and blackberries."
— Samuel Sullivan Cox

"As to my mouth, of all my features, I wish I could possess my mouth again, just as it had been before the fire. I had my mother’s lips, generous below and above; and what kissing I had practiced, mainly on my hand or on a lonely pig, had convinced me that my lips would be the source of my good fortune. I would kiss with them, and lie with them, I would make victims and willing slaves of anyone my eyes desired, simply by talking a little, and following the talk with kisses, and the kisses with demands. And they’d melt into compliance, everyone of them, happy to perform the most demeaning acts as long as I was there to reward them with a long, tongue-tied kiss when they were done. But the fire didn’t spare my lips; it took them too, erasing them utterly."
— Clive Barker (Mister B. Gone)

"The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What's left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars."
— Bertolt Brecht

"The sunlight claps the earth, and the moonbeams kiss the sea: what are all these kissings worth, if thou kiss not me?"
— Percy Bysshe Shelley

"Teasing's part of the fun that comes before kissing"
— Lois Lowry (Messenger)

"On the other couch a women sits with a young boy looking through a picture book about Babar the Elephant. When I find a magazine and I lean back to start reading it, I can see the women watching me out of the corner of her eye. She moves closer to the child and she leans over and kisses his forehead. I know why she does it and i don't blame her."
— James Frey (A Million Little Pieces)

"The kiss itself is immortal. It travels from lip to lip, century to century, from age to age. Men and women garner these kisses, offer them to others and then die in turn."
— Guy de Maupassant (The Complete Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant)

"She sealed his lips with a wanton kiss; 'Though I forgive your breaking your vows to heaven, I expect you to keep your vows to me.'"
— Matthew Gregory Lewis (The Monk)

"Ambos acordaban que el regreso de la sensibilidad pura era paralelo a la herejía por la obsesión estética. Las cosas verdaderamente tristes habían llegado a un punto de exacerbación tal que la historia del patito feo era la versión minimalista(el mito fundacional) que organizaba la tragedia de los muchos millones que tenían ojos, y se encontraban por tanto "observados y revelados como feos acusadoramente por si mismos y el resto". Los cancioneros modernos elevaban delicados himnos a la certidumbre de la pateticidad intrínseca, a la autoconciencia recobrada so forma de espejos:

dime, ¿me dejarías llorar sobre tu hombro?
he oído decir que probarias lo que fuera al menos dos veces
cierra los ojos, y piensa en alquien que te atraiga físicamente
y déjame besarte, oh déjame besarte
y entonces abre tus ojos, y veras a alguien al que
desprecias físicamente
pero mi corazón está abierto
mi corazon está entregado a ti[bis]"
— Pola Oloixarac (Las teorías salvajes)

"All you have to go on is the faith of a kiss."
— Whitney Otto (How to Make an American Quilt)

"He took her into his arms again, using all his strength to be gentle, and let his lips touch hers so lightly he could hardly feel it."
— Morgan Llywelyn (Lion of Ireland: The Legend of Brian Boru)