Contemporary Romance Quotes

Chick lit was amazing, and I was thrilled to be part of it.

Count on Jill Shalvis for a witty, steamy, unputdownable love story.

Going back to my own past as a reader, I was a big, big reader of romances, particularly as a teenager, the age that my books are aimed at.

I think in a lot of romantic comedies it ends with a kiss, and I feel like in modern day relationships, and maybe just my own experience, it starts with a kiss and then all sort of falls apart and then comes together.

I am a mix of both old classic romance and modern. I think it is up to what suits the two people in love best!

I read almost no romantic fiction, in part because I barely believe in romance in the age of Tinder.

I write nothing but contemporary romances.

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

There used to be two kinds of kisses: First when girls were kissed and deserted; second, when they were engaged. Now there's a third kind, where the man is kissed and deserted. If Mr. Jones of the nineties bragged he'd kissed a girl, everyone knew he was through with her. If Mr. Jones of 1919 brags the same, everyone knows it's because he can't kiss her any more. Given a decent start any girl can beat a man nowadays.

People who would never sneer at sci-fi and murder mysteries have no trouble damning the whole romance genre without reading one.

Avery Morgansten? This is becoming a habit.

It's the fantasy of first love. If you've been married for 400 years, as I have, it's nice to experience first love again and you can vicariously through a book. And it is such a fantasy. It takes you away from doing the dishes and the laundry. I think of this as a contemporary romance rather than erotic fiction.