Nov. 21, 2024, 10:45 p.m.
In the enchanting realm of literature, paranormal romance has captivated readers with its blend of supernatural allure and heart-stirring love stories. These tales whisk us away to worlds where passion defies the boundaries of reality, where mysterious creatures and otherworldly landscapes become the backdrop for tales of heartache and devotion. For those who find solace in the intoxicating dance between the forbidden and the extraordinary, we've gathered a curated collection of the top 100 paranormal romance quotes. Delve into these words of magic and emotion, and let them transport you to a universe where love knows no limits and the paranormal becomes the very essence of romance.
1. “I should warn you, I’m an expert on vampires. I’ve seen every episode made of Buffy, Angel, and Forever Knight, so don’t think a little fang-flashing is going to scare me.” – Nell to AdrianOh, my God! You bit me on the leg! You drank my blood! I am not an appetizer!” You are much more then an appetizer. You are a twelve-course banquet. – Nell & AdrianI slid my tongue around the glossy enamel of his teeth, pausing to stroke down the length of an elongated canine tooth.Yeah. I know. How stupid is it to French kiss a vampire and not expect sharp teeth? – Nell” - Katie MacAlister
2. “Honest to god, Clare, you act like the dress is more important than you being shot!”Of course it is! It’s a Versace, you idiot! Bring help! I’m going to save this dress at all costs.” - Sam to Clare” - Katie MacAlister
3. “You, my dear, are a creature of the night, you are a vampire.” - Lauren Hammond
4. “I would change the way humans interpreted the word vampire, forever.” - Lauren Hammond
5. “Nothing that is will always be.- Open Mic Singer” - Geoffrey Thorne
6. “Would you dare to walk with the beast on the dark side of the moon?” - Demetri Daskova
7. “Let the spirits guide you, but never let them take you.” - E.J. Stevens
8. “He licked at her lips."We are going to have some amazing children. The best this world has ever seen.” - Gena Showalter
9. “I don't think you need anything to wear, Blue. In fact, given what I've seen, I'd prefer it that way.” - Gayle Ann Williams
10. “I blew through her like baby’s breath through a dandelion, and my soulleft its mark on hers. Forever. In one night, I’d bound her too me for as longas she lived, and I had no words to tell her.When I woke the next night, to see her there, above me, the relief radiatingfrom every line of her body, I thought it was more of a miracle than myfirst rising.” - Amy Lane
11. “You’re here!” She repeated, wrapping her arms around his neck and her legsaround his hips. He’d dropped his bags as she’d ran, and now he cupped her bottom in his large hands...His heart gave a giant thump, all the way down from his chest to his stomach,and as she smiled up at him he lowered his head and devoured her mouth,smile and all. Her lips were just as warm, and just as soft as he remembered, and her mouth tasted like peaches and cinnamon and Corinne Carol-Anne and without thought he pushed her back against the hallway wall and kissed her and kissed her and kissed her as though all their time apart would disappear in that frantic mating of tongue and lips and teeth. He wanted to take her into himself, all of her, and keep her warm and safe and happy, just like this moment when sheburst with joy, just to see him.--Wounded(Green and Cory, after being apart)” - Amy Lane
12. “There aren't any syringes." Red Sox came over and held a sterile pack out. When she tried to take it from him, he kept a grip on the thing. "I know you'll use this wisely.""Wisely?" She snapped the syringe out of his hand. "No, I'm going to poke him in the eye with it. Because that's what they trained me to do in medical school.” - J.R. Ward
13. “You know this isn't right. You know you aren't supposed to be with him. If you do this with him...if you continue to fall in love with him...I will die.” - Jordan Deen
14. “Sorry, I got hung up or I’d have been here earlier. I made sure I made it for closing, though. I didn’t want the streets to suffer if you walked alone.”A glance at him showed his lips twitching. Humor, a new facet to my knight in leather armor; one I liked, given my oftentimes sarcastic attitude towards life. He wore the same leather duster of the previous evening, and, once again, I enviously admired it. Unable to resist, I reached out a hand and stroked its supple surface, feeling a thrill that my hand strayed so close to his actual body. “It’s so soft,” I murmured.“Not for long, if you keep stroking it,” he drawled.” - Eve Langlais
15. “I have always loved you, princess" Robin Goodfellow promised, his green eyes shining in the darkness. "I always will. And I'll take whatever you can give me.” - Julie Kagawa
16. “Cold air clawed at my face, ripping tears from my eyes. I buried my face deep into Daniel's back and breathed in a mixture of familiar scents - almonds, oil paint, earth, and a hint of varnish. I didn't even question why I was on that bike. I just knew I was suppose to be.” - Bree Despain
17. “The world is not full of crazy ninja perfume ladies!” - Elisa Paige
18. “Regin:“I finally understand what a dickie-do is. Your gut does stick out more than your dickie do.” - Kresley Cole
19. “Wouldn't be surprising. Most immortal females behave like they're in heat."Her brows rose. "You are the one who taught me about pleasure." ... "And now in another lifetime, you ridicule me for missing it? Come on, Chase. Take me to where you live. Scared I'll find some footy pajamas? A fleshlight? I want a bath almost as much as you need to watch me take one. I get so much more talkative when I'm clean. Loreans are really fastidious, you know.” - Kresley Cole
20. “She murmured, "You're unfinished.""Aye, precisely.""I need to go."When she moved to get up, he shoved her against his side and slapped her arse to keep her there. "You stay with me."She snapped, "What do you want from me, Chase?"He drew his head back in confusion. "I want everything. You're mine, Regin.” - Kresley Cole
21. “You're a fuckin' parasite." I could never become a vampire. Filthy leeches."Words still hurt, Chase. Besides, you should be thanking me. My advice about the Valkyrie clearly worked. And speaking of females, if I call you by one's name while my fangs are plunged deep in your neck, just run with it.” - Kresley Cole
22. “Don't get pissy with me leech." With a glare, Carrow pressed her print to his torque. "Even tapped out, I can still do a love spell to make you fall in love--with the sun.” - Kresley Cole
23. “Maybe I needed sensitivity training. I once signed up for an anger management class, but the instructor pissed me off.” - Darynda Jones
24. “Hello! Hunk getting naked time. You expected me not to look?” - Dana Marie Bell
25. “Will you be my forever, Donia?” - Melissa Marr
26. “V had a passing thought that she used the word "anyway" like an eraser on a crowded chalkboard. She said it whenever she needed to clear off the things she'd just shared to make room for more.” - J.R. Ward
27. “Crashing into the trembling voidStretching my hand to youLosing myself to frigid regretIs this fragile loveA wayTo sayGood-bye” - Maggie Stiefvater
28. “I need a victim and no offense Yuki, but your carrot sticks are lacking in controversy.” - E.J. Stevens
29. “Please, let me take you home. You’re drunk.”“I am not.” I shoved him, spilling some kind of delicious poison on him. “Go home and have a wild time with Ms. Scarlet. In the bedroom. With the—”“Okay, you’re starting to talk board game. Let’s go home, babe. I’ll get you into bed.” - Rachael Wade
30. “Joel’s face swam across my vision and I blinked, goose bumps running up my arms. I shook his memory away, determined to stay focused, although my heart caved at the thought of his last words to us, right here in this very spot: Take care of each other. I’d be damned if I was going to let him down now.” - Rachael Wade
31. “Nil Sine Magno Labore ("Nothing without great effort") --Motto of Brooklyn College” - Tony-Paul de Vissage
32. “You're not crazy. In fact, you're perfect. Everything about you couldnt be more so if I made a list of all the qualities I wanted in a partner and special ordered you.” - Bonnie Erina Wheeler
33. “I knew I was a little different from most demons but nothing says freak of nature like a one-eyed gypsy saying I had a rainbow glow. It just didn't sound complimentary.” - Mary Abshire
34. “My goal is that Julie and Brody do not become the other's half. They should be two wholes that become a greater one. That is the only way to overcome evil in the end.” - Melissa D. Ellis
35. “Don't ever 'influence' me against my will again, MacLachlan,. Or I will load your balls into my Cuisinart and press 'chop.” - Diana Duncan
36. “Just a friendly warning: the forces of spiritual darness are nothing to trifle with. Vampires do exist, no matter what the so-called scientific minds might say, and they ARE dangerous!” - C.c. Brown
37. “Been dead, done that got a fricken t-shirt” - P.C. Cast
38. “Why did you wear heels? How are you supposed to fight a gargoyle in what you're wearing?” - Priya Ardis
39. “Get the Girl," he demanded. "She knows too much!"Dammit. Why did people keep presuming that, and if it was true, why the hell couldn't my GPA reflect the fact?” - Shannon Delany
40. “Just try it,” he murmurs, reaching over to cover my hand gently.And I think, Whoa, that’s never happened before!Then: Is he just doing that because he thinks Wyatt is interested?And, finally, this: Who the hell cares?!” - Rusty Fischer
41. “MEG (to Dante, the vampire):“Vampires aren’t as cool as I expected them to be. In romance novels, vampires are all dark and broody and sexy. In real life, you talk an awful lot about stocks.” - Sophie Oak
42. “Matt was almost completely naked. A tattered loincloth and an ugly chain with a yellow diamond were his only apparel.” - Priya Ardis
43. “Some say we’re already damned,” Nathanial replied coolly, sitting back in his chair. “So you’re too late to send him to Hell.” -- BLOOD KNOT” - Tracy Cooper-Posey
44. “If I were to lock you up in a dungeon, I guarantee you would not be bored.” - Priya Ardis
45. “You ever had a hickey? I want to give you a hickey.""Karl, we're not fourteen!""Don't bloody care. I was in love with you when I was fourteen -- your neck owes me a hickey."(Karl & Elena)” - Dianna Hardy
46. “Do you really want to put yourself through this? Is loving me really enough to endure everything you have to just to be with me?"Meeting his fiery gaze, I ran my fingers through his hair, kissed him gently before I attempted to set us both free. "It will always be enough.” - Rachael Wade
47. “Their eyes locked.They could see into each other's souls. This was why she had been bored.” - Marion Croslydon
48. “I might be half Derek's size, but I was the one who sounded like a two-hundred-pound beast plowing through the woods.” - Kelley Armstrong
49. “Unexpected Elizabeth wasn’t falling into his arms as he’d anticipated, even after he had acted heroic and been valiantly injured. Perhaps he had lost her.” - Kresley Cole
50. “He wanted more, as did I, but we still had a ways to go. I wasn’t a tease and my demands seemed pretty reasonable: always be honest and try not to eat me. ~ Sam, Living Violet” - Jaime Reed
51. “He had golden-brown hair, the most vivid baby-blue eyes, and a body that belonged on the cover of Men’s Health magazine. Her gaze roamed over his broad shoulders and down his chest.” - Lia Davis
52. “Without your own inner beast tamed ye can never tame the wild ones around ye!” - Jennifer Silverwood
53. “He hissed and rocked his hips into her. “You like to bite?”“I’m a cat, aren’t I?” - Lia Davis
54. “Should she slam his head into the bar or toss her beer on him? Damn shame to waste good beer.” - Mina Khan
55. “Have you been hitting the wine or my mother's brownies again?” - Terri Herman-Poncé
56. “To see someone you love in so much pain—especially emotional pain that can’t be remedied—was the worst form of torture.” - Laura Kreitzer
57. “MacKenzie started to look frightened and Valor looked like he was going to kill somebody if they didn't stop scaring his girlfriend. At the same time, Victor looked like he was ready to step in and take control of the situation. And if these suits decided to pull out some guns, I could see where they might end up as a set of life-sized garden gnomes.” - Taylor Longford
58. “I prescribe a quick jerk off in the shower and a return to sanity. (Dr. Hugo Peralta)” - Kate Richards
59. “The wolves wait for you, little lamb.” - Keri Lake
60. “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
61. “Good does not exist without the evil and right does not hold weight without knowing the wrong.” - Stephanie Hudson
62. “Susie and Pippa clinked their glasses together. I followed suit, but my heart wasn't in it anymore. It had already left the building.” - Milly Silver
63. “The waiter repeated, "The cocktails are from Mr Seadon. He asked me to tell you that he thought you'd enjoy them. They are called Secrets.” - Milly Silver
64. “Free your mind, Jowendrhan. A cage is only a cage as long as you believe it is.” - Poppet
65. “I'm the riddle you have yet to solve” - Poppet
66. “Who knows what real really is...” - Poppet
67. “Do not feed fear. Starve it.” - Poppet
68. “You failed her when you turned your back on what you are.” - Poppet
69. “Lady, you have just become a wanted woman. I suggest you start running.” - Poppet
70. “A shade slinks over me and I'm caught off guard when he leans down, placing a blossom in my cleavage, his face shadowed and secretive.” - Poppet
71. “I loathe being crimped into this deplorable position on the vampyre chessboard.” - Poppet
72. “Rubbing absently at my temple, I do declare this woman leaves me flabbergasted and tongue tied.” - Poppet
73. “He gives me one of those twinkling stares. His eyes coalesce and fragment color, glinting specks of midnight purple and an electric blue, when the light catches them just right. Straight on they look like indelible pitch, well deep with secrets and primordial darkness.” - Poppet
74. “Snatching my hand in the death grip of his fingers, he pulls me off the wall to line his chest, closing his body around me in a muscular cage which smells of leather and soap.” - Poppet
75. “Eyes sparkling with blue open and stare a scalded soul at me.” - Poppet
76. “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
77. “—Piensa en la araña más grande, terrorífica y letal que puedas imaginar —murmuró él con los ojos puestos en suslabios—. Yo soy esa araña, y tú la mosca atrapada en mis hilos.” - Maria Martinez
78. “I've been deflecting Calypso's blushes all day. I don't have the energy to deflect yours," he said through clenched teeth. "So either block or strip." -- The Twelfth House ~ The Elementals Book I” - T.L. McCallan
79. “It's okay, Jasper. I, above all, know what you are feeling now. But this will be different. We’re stronger now. We will find her.” Adam gave him a rough hug before he left the shop. The sound of a car outside signaled the arrival of his brothers. Time to kick ass and find his mate.” - Carrie Ann Ryan
80. “This love is so deep it cannot be undone.” - Rebecca Maizel
81. “A series of howls and war cries echoed through the camp....The werewolves and Japanese had attacked."-pg.353 Forbidden Nights with a Vampire Kerrelyn Sparks” - Kerrelyn Sparks
82. “Something was bleeding… and something was broken. It was my heart… because I had to leave you. (Chase to Rayne)” - Kimberly Brockman
83. “In this cage, behind these bars, I think of you and me.” - Kenya Wright
84. “By the time she yanked on her old jeans and a battered plaid flannel shirt, she felt almost normal. Calm, as she plugged in the coffee pot. But the nightmare was still very much on her mind, because it wasn’t a dream…It was a memory.” - Dani Harper
85. “For there has never been a story nearly as tragic as the one of Frankenstein, except for that of Johnny Heart and his Francesca Valentine.” - Rae Hachton
86. “He moved closer to her. “You did not have to get me anything. The fact that you did means I have been in your thoughts. I am thankful for that.” - Elizabeth Morgan
87. “She sagged against the wall, finding it hard to breathe. It wasn’t from fear. Gods, she hadn’t been that turned on in years. If that was her punishment, she was going to be lippy a little more often” - Lia Davis
88. “Are you always so mistrusting?” he said, lifting a brow.“When my escort is a demon, yes.” - Lia Davis
89. “You upped the ante with the wrong vampire, Caitlin.” - Lindsay J. Pryor
90. “And then I met this girl.” He paused, his fingers finding mine in a tight squeeze. “And she made all my dark corners light” - Gwen Hayes
91. “Cursed,” he once cried in a fit of rage. His temper has always been as restless and unpredictable as the sea itself. But his words had power behind them and I felt the effects instantly. Too late to take it back.” - Jennifer Silverwood
92. “Women, they were tricky business. A man had to step carefully lest he find himself in a pit of despair, longing after the one he wants and getting nothing but scorn in return. What was it about her that drove him crazy? He'd never had such a wild and instantaneous reaction to a woman before.” - T.A. Grey
93. “All my life I thought love was supposed to be this amazing, wonderful feeling. I thought it was supposed to heal all wounds and conquer all. No one ever told me that it can leave a giant hole in your heart. No one ever mentioned that it could steal all the life away from you.” - Jen Naumann
94. “I’m more than twisted. I’m the worst kind of vampire… But you’re the one who’s craving me, so what does that make you?” - Lindsay J. Pryor
95. “The wind and the sea and the storm were his domain and I wanted nothing to do with them any longer. I just wanted Cain.” - Jennifer Silverwood
96. “I can finish that off and get you something better,” he offered.“You’d eat my leftovers?...” I felt like such a prima donna. “You’re a king.”“I’m a…hungry…king,” he shrugged, as he unassumingly glanced to the side. “I’m not picky.” - M.A. George
97. “You can be intensely aggravating...” His expression struck me as closer to boredom than aggravation. “And somehow I suspect this isn’t the first time you’ve been told that.”“Nope,” I smiled mischievously. “Nor the last…” - M.A. George
98. “There’s an empty seat next to me in the ‘intensely aggravating’ section…and it’s got your name on it” - M.A. George
99. “My only regret,” he gently tugged me back toward him, “would be leaving this world before naming you as my wife. If I die tomorrow, at least I’ll have that to my credit.” Wrapping his arms around my waist, he vowed, “You don’t have to be queen…but you will not fall into obscurity on a foreign world. You will bear the Omuran name, and I have to believe that will protect you.” He brought his forehead to rest against mine, adding sorrowfully, “I have to believe that our family line wasn’t meant to end with this.” - M.A. George
100. “I didn’t intend it to come out sarcastically, but I guess that’s just where my tone of voice automatically goes these days.” - M.A. George