“That’s the beauty about love. It’s not about give-and-take – it’s about feeling safe in one’s needs – wanting to be looked after as much as wanting to look after.” ― Freya North, Chances

“You’re the reason I get out of bed every night. And you’re the reason I can’t wait to come home every dawn. Not the war. Not the Brothers. Not even Butch. It’s…you.” ― J.R. Ward, Lover Unleashed

“They didn’t understand that she held his heart, held it so utterly that there was nothing he wouldn’t do, no line he wouldn’t cross to keep her safe.” ― Nalini Singh, Archangel’s Kiss

“I have found my star. She is beauty and grace. Elegance and goodness. My laughter in winter. She is courageous and strong. Bold and tempting. Unlike any other in all the universe, and I cannot touch her. I dare not even try.” [Zarek]” ― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Dance with the Devil

“You’re in my every breath and every thought, intertwined so deep inside me that love’s not a strong enough word—you have my devotion, your name branded on my soul, my wolf yours to command. A hundred years? It’ll never be enough. I want eternity.”
-Hawke to Sienna” ― Nalini Singh, Kiss of Snow 

“One day you do meet a man who kisses you and you can’t breathe around it and you realize you don’t need air. Oxygen is trivial. Desire makes life happen. Makes it matter. Makes everything worth it. Desire is life. Hunger to see the next sunrise or sunset. To touch the one you love. To try again.”
- Karen Marie Moning, Shadowfever

“One day you will kiss a man you can’t breathe without, and find that breath is of little consequence.”
- Karen Marie Moning, Bloodfever

“Your name is Lily Whitney. You are the woman I want at my side night and day. I want you to be the mother of my children someday. I want you for my lover. I want you for the person I turn to when the world gets to be too much.”
- Christine Feehan, Shadow Game

“I claim you as my life mate. I belong to you. I offer my life for you. I give to you my protection, my allegiance, my heart, my soul, and my body. I take into my keeping the same that is yours. Your life, happiness, and welfare will be cherished and placed above my own for all time. You are my life mate, bound to me for all eternity and always in my care.”
- Christine Feehan

“All I know is, she’s a pounding in my chest that I can’t ignore. . . hell, that I don’t WANT to ignore. [Rhage]“
- J.R. Ward, Lover Eternal