Dark Romance Quotes

“I vow.
You vow.
We vow.”
― Shantel Tessier, The Ritual

“Kiss me"
“You’re a fucking nightmare.”
“Kiss me.”
“You’re ruining my life.”
“Kiss me, Jethro. Kiss me.”
― Pepper Winters, First Debt

“What are you feeling right now?" he asks softly.
My breathing escalates. "Confined."
"Trapped?" he volleys back. My mouth tightens because while a part of me wants to say yes, the truth is that I don't.
I feel... safe.
Protected.
Treasured.
"One day, you will realize that you are not trapped in a prison," he murmurs roughly. "You are in my church where I am your God, and you are my equal. I'm not a jail, little mouse, I am your sanctuary.”
― H.D. Carlton, Haunting Adeline

“I hope you never forget about me and that the thought of me haunts you for eternity”
― Rina Kent, Lies of My Monster

“Your love. The only thing I needed from you. You are one with the power, you've just never known what the fuck to do with it”
― H.D. Carlton, Hunting Adeline

“A snow globe,” I say slowly, waiting for her to look up, which she doesn’t do. “You made a severed finger into a feckin’ snow globe.” “It was almost Christmas,” she says with a shrug. “It felt … festive.”
― Brynne Weaver, Leather & Lark

“It didn’t matter how enormous and beautiful the gilded cage appeared. It was still a cage.”
― Lotchie Burton, Dante's Revenge

“When it comes to death, you are mine”
― RuNyx, The Predator

“I don't want to fix him. I want fix me. And he's the only thing that seems to be working.”
― RuNyx, The Predator

“To all my girls who, on their way to their prince, lost themselves in the villain's arms.”
― Lola King, Beautiful Fiend

“I lie about a lot of things. I’m a liar.” He’s still speaking in that neutral tone as if any other range will ruin his composure. “Things like what?”
“Like how much I hate you. I don’t. Or how much you’re nothing. You aren’t. Or how I can live without you. I can’t.”
― Rina Kent, Black Knight

“I might be broken, but I’ll pull myself together. I might have fallen, but I’ll get up. There’ll be a day where I look behind and say I survived.”
― Rina Kent, Black Knight

“you cannot love a person fully without knowing the darkness etched into their soul i want to know his so well it becomes my darkness too.”
― Sav R. Miller, Promises and Pomegranates

“I want to kiss you one last time without hatred polluting your lungs... because as soon as I tell you my secrets, you'll never want me to kiss you again.”
― Sophie Grace, Secrets

“Touch her again and I'll blow your fucking head off.”
― Leigh Rivers, Insatiable

“You feed my demons,” he rasped.
“You created mine.”
― Mia Knight

“I had turned to leave and he had called after me. “Miss Maria, I kin no other woman who could be wearing men’s trousers and be dripping such as ye are and look quite so lovely. It’s a right shame your mother is marrying you off to that great sot!”
I had turned to call back to him, “I doubt very much we will have to worry about that after today!”
― Gwenn Wright, The BlueStocking Girl

“I love you. Everything and anything I do is for you. Only you.”
― E.L Beth, Guilty Love

“You have haunted me in my dreams,
Followed me in my memory,
And enamoured me…
…Nirvana…
Your name echoes in the most silent parts of my mind,
Brought to life by the memory of your touch, And the gentle sway of our bodies to the jazz music
You have become my obsession,
Of which I will never tire.

Salvatore”
― ANSA Reads, GODLY OBSESSION: How badly does she want her freedom?

“If defeat was a certainty, I should at least enjoy the fall”
― Jill Ramsower, Silent Vows

“Another tug and a yank at my chestnut curls and she snarls at me, “You are so much like her.”
This is something my mother often says and never explains. Though it is a great mystery to me it is also a blessing, for she always hurries from the room after saying it.”
― Gwenn Wright, The BlueStocking Girl

“When it ended, he was broken.
His Master's pet.”
― Sarah Vespertine, A Grave of Chains

“You’ll never have to be afraid again. Because there won’t be anything left to be afraid of.”
― Rebecca Dale, The Fall of Summer: The Reckoning Duet, Book 1

“Every time you say 'yes' when you mean 'no,' you put a bullet in the head of the real you.

You’re stacking bodies in the basement,

The dreamer, the rebel, the romantic... you took them out back and shot them like Old Yeller because they were too loud for the dinner party.

Now you’re civilized. You’re polite. And you’re the only one left alive in a house full of ghosts.”
― Lokesh Tuli, Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”

“Pain leaves evidence. In the body. In choices. In the things people can’t say aloud.”
― N. von Wolf, These Tears: A dark psychological captive romance thriller

“How paradoxical of her to understand and misunderstand me at the same time. It drives me mad.

I am inside her head, but I am utterly incapable of being in her life.

We are best friends in the gutter and total strangers in the light.

It’s the closest I’ve ever been to anyone, honestly
I feel like I’m yelling at her from the moon.

Nobody has ever felt so close yet distant.”
― Lokesh Tuli, Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”

“Thorne is rotten, forbidden fruit, growing into the cracking window of my soul. Darkness stirs within me— begging me to find someone to kill to free myself of the need to open the window and let him in”
― Luden Gray, The Executioner Prince

“The heart does not practice logic or reason.”
― Lindsay Straube

“My love language is a a barrage of highly inappropriate dangerous questions.

I don't want the polite fiction of your day.

Because I am absolutely fascinated by the beautiful, tangled, chaotic mess inside your head.

I want to know what you think about at 3 AM when the world goes quiet and the anxiety creeps in.

So, Tell me about all the terrible, wonderful things you feel and never say out loud.”
― Lokesh Tuli, Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”

“So, somebody asked me the other day what’s my type is, right?

I actually prefer to be a little intellectually intimidated by the woman I love….

I want her sharp. I want her cunning. I want to look at her across the room and think, she is out of my league in ways I don't even understand yet.

I want to look into her eyes and feel utterly outmatched.

The kind of intellect that strips you bare, leaves you bleeding in the poetry of your own fucking ignorance.”
― Lokesh Tuli, Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”