Sylvia Day Quotes

Romance novels satisfy a very specific fantasy of romantic love that seems to be a powerful part of the female psyche.

'The Lucky One' is at its heart a romance novel, elevated however by Nicholas Sparks' persuasive storytelling. Readers don't read his books because they're true, but because they ought to be true.

Anytime I fall in love, I feel it's a first time. I have had no successful love story yet. I hope I will succeed next time when I fall in love.

'The Notebook' is one of my favorite love stories.

If you have to think about whether you love someone or not then the answer is no. When you love someone you just know.

Without sounding overly pompous about it, I don't really trust certainty in anything, actually. Especially as I get older. Except love. I'm certain of love, I guess.

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

I love hard; I love who I love, and I don't make any qualms about it.

I love you more than my own skin.

Romantic fiction, in the broader sense, can be any novel that has a love story somewhere in it. It can be a mystery or a historical novel, as long as it has this very strong romantic thread running through it.

I am a bit of a hopeless romantic. I really do have a faith and a belief in love, and when I love, I love hard.

When you say that you write romantic fiction, there are a lot of people who have an image in their mind of the 'bodice ripper.' It's the one term that most romantic fiction writers absolutely hate because it has no bearing on what people are writing.

There are two births: the one when light, First strikes the new awakened sense; The other when two souls unite, And we must count our life from thence, When you loved me and I loved you, Then both of us were born anew.

You don't sit down and write a wish list about the person you are going to fall violently in love with. It just doesn't work like that.

It is really rare to find someone you really, really love and that you want to spend your life with and all that stuff that goes along with being married. I am one of those lucky people. And I think she feels that way too. So the romantic stuff is easy because you want them to be happy.

The American is wholeheartedly for love and romance at any cost.

It's the pursuit of love and happiness that is the driving force of the romantic novel.

Elizabeth Taylor was an incurable romantic at heart. She never gave up on the notion that a love strong enough to last a lifetime was waiting for her around the next corner.

I love to have real people of history interact with my fictional characters. History gives me the plot. I research the period meticulously, and then I blend in a romantic and sensual love story to give it balance. The heavier the history, the more romantic the couple must be.

The American fantasy of love is the 'meet-cute,' 'Love at first sight,' and 'You had me at hello!' The completely spontaneous version of accidental love, which doesn't care about demographics and social compatibility.

Her feelings were her own, and could not be altered from outside. It would not have occurred to her that an action which is ineffectual thereby becomes meaningless. If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.

But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever.

There is an enduring tenderness in the love of a mother to a son that trancends all other affections of the heart

No man has ever loved a woman as much as I love you. Nothing will ever come before you. I don’t know what else I have to do to prove to you that I won’t let you down again. I won’t hurt you. You don’t have to be alone anymore. I need you.

In the sublimest flights of the soul, rectitude is never surmounted, love is never outgrown.