Stem Romance Quotes

“Luke realized he was staring at Denton, and hoped he only seemed like a man dubious of the intellect of the fairer sex.

And not what he was. A man who knew that women were easily as smart as men, and quite often far smarter.

But that Grace Chetwood was vapid, distractible, spoiled, self-indulgent, and infuriating.”
― Lark Maitland

“Luke marveled that two years had passed, and yet the woman elicited precisely the same uncomfortable mix of reactions in him. He wanted a stiff drink. He wanted to step closer to her. He wanted to call her out for calculated provocation. He wanted to study her closely enough that he discovered the precise root of his powerful, unrelenting fascination with her. And then he wanted to use that information to excise said fascination once and for all. Surgically, if necessary.”
― Lark Maitland, Ash and the Butterfly

“She shrugged, like she was making a throwaway comment. ‘I had a massive crush on you when I was younger.’
He stopped walking. Right in the middle of the path.
When she looked up, slightly panicked that she’d broken him, he was grinning – wide and dazzling, like she’d just handed him the best news he’d received all year. ‘You did?’
She swallowed hard, mortified, her cheeks burning hot enough to fry an egg. ‘Don’t look so pleased,’ she muttered, but a smile was creeping onto her face anyway, completely beyond her control. ‘I made you a Valentine’s card once. Callum found it and said it was cringe.’
Kieran’s smile turned rueful. ‘I wouldn’t have thought it was cringe,’ he said after a beat, his eyes catching hers with that quiet intensity that made everything else fade into irrelevance. ‘I think I would’ve kept it forever.”
― Connie Kitson, The Love Code

“You've always been a friend. More than a friend. You were the person I looked for in every room.”
― Connie Kitson, The Love Code