Ya Romance Quotes

“Do you think we can be friends?” I asked.
He stared up at the ceiling. “Probably not, but we can pretend.”
― Priya Ardis, Ever My Merlin

“And to think of all the colors in the world, blood chose to be red.”
― Nelou Keramati

“Vane grabbed me. “DuLac, let’s chat.”
Chat. British-speak for “Stand still while I yell at you.”
― Priya Ardis, My Merlin Awakening

“Did you recently turn into a jerk or have you been one since birth?”
― Priya Ardis, My Boyfriend Merlin

“He didn’t save me, though. He allowed me the freedom to save myself, which is the very best type of rescue.”
― Amy Engel, The Book of Ivy

“They say the soul cannot rest until it finds its match. Then it ignites.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Free the Stars

“Vane’s lips tightened to suppress a smile. “Why so hostile, love?”
“You whacked me on the head with a ball!”
“You deserved it.”
― Priya Ardis, My Merlin Awakening

“I caught his hand. “What do you want me to do?”
Leaning down, he kissed the pulse beating on my neck just above the damaged skin. “Tomorrow, I need you to die.”
― Priya Ardis, My Merlin Awakening

“Do I look like I want to be involved in your teen love saga? Ask someone who cares.”
― Priya Ardis, My Boyfriend Merlin

“Why did you wear heels? How are you supposed to fight a gargoyle in what you're wearing?”
― Priya Ardis, My Boyfriend Merlin

“I tried to hate you, to forgive you, all just to forget you, but I'm only capable of loving you. You're tattooed onto my skin, and the more I try to erase you, the deeper you sink in.”
― Mirella Muffarotto, Soccer Sweetheart

“His shrill cries flood the forest like light engulfing a silhouette.”
― Nelou Keramati

“He’d used the amulet to read my thoughts again.
I pictured smacking him in the face.”
― Priya Ardis, Ever My Merlin

“Well, can you tell her that?"
He looked down at his feet. "I will. I will."
Guy-speak for, "I plan to keep avoiding her until she gives up.”
― Priya Ardis, My Merlin Awakening

“You two are bound to one another. You always have been … and you can't run away from what you are. No matter where you go, your feelings for her are going to follow you.”
― Mirella Muffarotto, Soccer Sweetheart

“I noticed him right away. No, it wasn’t his lean, rugged face. Or the dark waves of shiny hair that hung just a little too long on his forehead. It wasn’t the slim, collarless biker jacket he wore, hugging his lean shoulders. It was the way he stood. The confident way he waited in the cafeteria line to get a slice of pizza. He didn’t saunter. He didn’t amble. He stood at the center, and let the other people buzz around him. His stance was straight and sure.”
― Priya Ardis, Ever My Merlin

“You'll get fired if anyone finds out about us!"
"So many rules in this century," Vane muttered.”
― Priya Ardis, My Merlin Awakening

“If I were to lock you up in a dungeon, I guarantee you would not be bored.”
― Priya Ardis, My Merlin Awakening

“Plus, I happened to be a history nerd. Why else would I be interested in a guy born in the year 519?”
― Priya Ardis, My Merlin Awakening

“He’s so powerful. Who knows maybe he’s advanced past eating”
― Priya Ardis, My Boyfriend Merlin

“You can't make a fan of everyone. Stay true to your story, characters, music, art or whatever it is you do and fuck everyone else who doesn't like it. Life isn't perfect.”
― Ann Marie Frohoff

“Her heart was telling her to trust him, but it wouldn’t be the first time that that foolish muscle, there in the middle of her chest, had betrayed her.”
― Mirella Muffarotto, Soccer Sweetheart

“Rough palms cradled my face while my fingers gripped the pillow on either side of his. Lips, teeth, tongue, mingled together. I ate him up and didn’t let go until I had to come up for air.”
― Priya Ardis

“The combination of razor-sharp wit (completely real) and his credentials (completely fake) had won them over in the end.”
― Priya Ardis, My Merlin Awakening

“The last declaration he'd made to me hung between us. The L word. The one that had nothing to do with like.”
― Priya Ardis, My Merlin Awakening

“My name is Arianna Morganna Brittany DuLac--you can imagine why I went by the name Ryan.”
― Priya Ardis, My Boyfriend Merlin

“She was afraid of giving in to that overwhelming, absolute, unconditional love, a love that had shown her the route to heaven, but which had also taught her how much one could suffer, to the point where even the sound of your own tears became deafening.”
― Mirella Muffarotto, Soccer Sweetheart

“Say you came back for me," he whispered. There was a thread of desire in his voice that threatened the good sense in her head, her very composure. "Tell me you came to find me. That you changed your mind."

"How--how can you even say such things," she said, her hands beginning to tremble, "on an evening you are meant to choose another as your bride?"

"I choose you," he said simply. "I want you.”
― Tahereh Mafi, This Woven Kingdom

“Soft sun shone down on a misty cathedral at the opposite end of a football-field length courtyard. The cathedral had a long pointed tower with beautiful rose and ivory stained glass windows. Pink-petal flowers and deep green ivy climbed the stones from the ground to it’s roof. A large fountain stood in the middle of the courtyard with water falling from several lion’s heads. Between the misty air and rolling slope of the earth, the grounds reminded me of a long lost fairy tale.”
― Priya Ardis, My Boyfriend Merlin

“I love everything about you. And I’ve felt that way for such a long time that it could last forever.”
― Mirella Muffarotto, Soccer Sweetheart