Quotes about kiss
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“I'm sorry," he says, "for that time I kissed you at that party and for that time at the wedding and more than anything for the thousand times that I wanted to and didn't have the guts to.”

Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer

Source: Saving Francesca

Wedding, Time

“I’ll give you a choice. Kill me.”
“By definition ‘choice’ mandates a minimum of two possible avenues of action.”
“I wasn’t done. Or kiss me. But do one or the other. Before I do one or the other to you.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Burned

“He looks at me in such a way that I know for sure-he's never looked at another girl quite like this.
And the I'm in his arms, and we're hugging and kissing, and we're both shaking, because we both know-this is the night we become real.”

Jenny Han book P.S. I Still Love You

Source: P.S. I Still Love You

Way, Girl, Night

“The last I saw of Count Dracula was his kissing his hand to me, with a red light of triumph in his eyes, and with a smile that Judas in hell might be proud of.”

Bram Stoker book Dracula

Source: Dracula

Smile, Hell, Light

“Pritkin kissed like he did everything else, straightforward, accepting no prisoners and with an intensity that left me breathless. It was hot and hard and desperate, like he was starving for it, and I opened my mouth and took it, because,.”

Karen Chance American writer

Source: Embrace the Night

“I dont care who kissed you first as long as I kiss you last.”

Rachel Vail (1966) American writer

Source: I didn't care who kissed you first as long as I kissed you last."
-George from If We Kiss

“I can’t write without a reader. It’s precisely like a kiss—you can’t do it alone.”

John Cheever (1912–1982) American novelist and short story writer

Christian Science Monitor (October 24, 1979).

“He had been my almost. My might-have-been.

I was afraid of what I wanted most - His kiss.

Still, I collected kiss stories.

-Susie Salmon”

Alice Sebold book The Lovely Bones

Source: The Lovely Bones

“It was a kiss made in lonely dreams. A kiss that took its time. A kiss that felt so right she couldn't remember all the reasons it was wrong.”

Susan Elizabeth Phillips (1948) American writer

Source: This Heart of Mine

Dreams, Time

“So all you want is a kiss?" I asked. A little voice in my head said I was heading for one of those slippery slopes. I told the little voice to shut up.
"Well, maybe more than one. But basically, yeah.”

Jenna Black (1965) American writer

Source: Glimmerglass

“She wanted to lunge over and kiss him. Well, ew, not really, maybe a hug. Or a hanshake.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Ghost Town

“I hope I haven't given you the impression that I consider kissing intrinsically irrational.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) American novelist and screenwriter

Source: Gatsby Girls

Hope

“Bless you, daugher of man," Carter said, his eyes luminous and almost silver now. He leaned down and kissed my forehead. I closed my eyes and caught my breath. His lips were both burning hot and icy cold.”

Richelle Mead (1976) American writer

Source: Succubus Revealed

“I was tanned, happy, and blowing a kiss to Cary, who’d playacted the role of a highfashion
photographer by calling out ridiculous encouragements.”

Sylvia Day book Bared to You

Source: Bared to You

Happiness

“I’m stopped by the sight of Finnick kissing Peeta.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

“The only reason I don't throw myself into your arms, kiss you and make love with you now is that I lack the courage and am afraid of loving you.”

Paulo Coelho book Aleph

Source: Aleph

Love, Making love, Courage

“You sure you don’t want to kiss me good-bye, baby?”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Strikes

Baby

“You're lips are bloody.' He seized my face in both hands and kissed me. It's hard not to respond when a master of the art of kissing is laying one on you.”

Charlaine Harris book Living Dead in Dallas

Source: Living Dead in Dallas

Art

“To pay compliments to the one we love is the first method of caressing, a demi-audacity venturing. A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

Love

“When finally she finished and stood herself up, he put his arm around her, best-buddy style, and they walked on. There was no request for a kiss. Nothing like that. You can love Rudy for that, if you like.”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

Love

“And before you barrel through some idiotic Cosmo girl list of how-well-do-you-know-your-man questions, let me say that I don't know squat about him except that he kisses like a god and screws like a devil.”

Kristin Hannah (1960) American writer

Source: Firefly Lane

God, Girl, Question

“I don't know much about kisses, but I can assure you that hers were no less fierce than a swarm of bullets tearing the air”

Xavier Velasco (1964) Mexican writer

Tear

“She answered by standing and kissing him first and held his cheeks and closed her eyes and felt sure as bones and deep as blood that she had found her place.”

Shannon Hale The Goose Girl

Source: The Goose Girl

“I didn't want to kiss you goodbye — that was the trouble — I wanted to kiss you good night — and there's a lot of difference.”

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist

Night

“Don’t kiss me,” she said warningly.
“I don’t intend to,” he replied, smiling a little. “I don’t have my whip and chair with me.”

Linda Howard (1950) American writer

Source: Mr. Perfect

Smile

“I wondered if it was possible to take someone's pain away with a kiss. Because that was what i wanted to do, take all of his sadness and pour it out of him, comfort him, make the boy i knew come back.”

Jenny Han (1980) American writer

Source: The Summer I Turned Pretty

Pain, Sadness, Boy

“A kiss isn't terminal."
"It is the way you do it.”

Nora Roberts (1950) American romance writer

Source: Genuine Lies

Way

“Her throat ached: adoration, heartbreak, in equal measure. “Kiss me,” she said. “Please.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

“Then he gave her a kiss on the forehead that felt like a baptism and she wept like a baby.”

Zadie Smith book White Teeth

Source: White Teeth

Baby

“Oliver Cromwell can kiss my singing emerald scrotum!”

Stephen Colbert (1964) American political satirist, writer, comedian, television host, and actor

Singing

“Just once, I'd like to find a boy. And I like him and he likes me. And we have a laugh and the kissing's really good and there's no-one getting in the way of the laughing and the kissing. Is that too much to ask?”

Sarra Manning (1950) British writer

Source: Kiss and Make Up

Way, Boy

“Oh, gah, I’ve been slimed. (Jericho)
It’s not slime. It’s a baby kiss. (Delphine)
It's slime. (Zarek)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Dream Warrior

Baby

“Sir, more than kisses, letters mingle souls;
For, thus friends absent speak.”

John Donne (1572–1631) English poet

Verse Letter to Sir Henry Woton, written before April 1598, line 1
Variant: More than kisses, letters mingle souls.

Soul

“You make me want to suck a bruise on you just to kiss it better.
--Luc to Jane”

Rachel Gibson (1961) American writer

Source: See Jane Score

“His smile was bright and sweet and hot enough to melt solid steel. "Is this the part where I kiss you?"
"If you like."
"Oh," he said, "I like.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Black Dawn

Smile, Parting

“He was raw and sharp and rich and throbbing with life. He was sweet blood after a long hunt. How could she have mistaken Aiden's kisses for this? They had been delicious and smooth like the brief comfort of chocolate, but they had never been enough.”

Annette Curtis Klause Blood and Chocolate

Source: Blood and Chocolate

Life

“You seem a lot like me," he said. "You don't gawk at me like I'm a freak."

"I'll kick anyone who does."

"I think you already did. Or at least smacked him with a tennis racket."

-Alexander and Raven, Vampire Kisses, Pg.127, The Beginning”

Ellen Schreiber book Vampire Kisses

Source: Vampire Kisses

Thinking

“To love--to fall--is not a question.
To touch--to kiss--to speak--those are questions.”

David Levithan (1972) American author and editor

Love, Question

“Prince or commoner, tenor or bass,
Painter or plumber or never-do-well,
Do me a favor and shut your face -
Poets alone should kiss and tell.”

Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist

Source: The Collected Dorothy Parker

“He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

God, Girl, Wedding

“Just so you know Gallagher Girl,' he whispered softly, 'I'm going to kiss you now.”

Ally Carter Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy

Source: Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy

Girl

“I knew that I couldn't lie beside her, without wanting to touch her. I couldn't have felt her breath come upon my mouth, without wanting to kiss her. And I couldn't have kissed her, without wanting to save her.”

Sarah Waters (1966) novelist

Lie

“Well, my dear, take heart. Some day, I will kiss you and you will like it. But not now, so I beg you not to be too impatient.”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

Heart

“There is dew
on these poems in the morning,
and at night a cool breeze may rise from them.

In the winter they are blankets, in the summer a place to swim.

I like talking to you like this. Have you moved
a step closer?

Soon we may be
kissing.”

Kabir (1440–1518) Indian mystic poet

Winter, Summer, Night

“I stare at her for a long moment. I want to kiss her. I want to kiss her more than I've ever wanted anything in my life.”

Sara Gruen book Water for Elephants

Source: Water for Elephants

Life

“Teasing's part of the fun that comes before kissing”

Lois Lowry Messenger

Source: Messenger

Parting

“Hey!" Claire called after him, as she leaned her backpack against the wall.
"No onions!"
"Your loss!"
"I meant for YOU! Not if you want to get kissed tonight!"
"Damn, girl. Harsh.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Ghost Town

Girl, Loss

“who pays any attention
to the syntax of things
will never wholly kiss you”

E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet

“If you want to know if a gentleman loves you,” her mother said, “there is only one true way to be sure.”
“It’s in his kiss,” her mother whispered. “It’s all there, in his kiss.”

Julia Quinn (1970) American novelist

Source: It's in His Kiss

Love, Way

“Our only kiss was like an accident- a beautiful gasoline rainbow.”

Alice Sebold book The Lovely Bones

Source: The Lovely Bones

Beauty

“Another flashing chance at bliss
Another kiss, another kiss”

Jim Morrison (1943–1971) lead singer of The Doors

Chance

“And kissed her for a hundred and sixty-nine years.”

Connie Willis book To Say Nothing of the Dog

Source: To Say Nothing of the Dog

“I steeled myself for the next response. I knew it was going to be one of the Zen life lessons. […]
Instead he kissed me.”

Richelle Mead book Frostbite

Source: Frostbite

Life

“I don’t want to forget any of this. The way he’s looking at me at this very moment. How, when he kisses me, I still get shivers down my back, every time. I want to hold on to everything so tight.”

Jenny Han book Always and Forever, Lara Jean

Source: Always and Forever, Lara Jean

Way, Time, Forgetting

“You should be kissed everyday, every hour, every minute.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Lucky One

Source: The Lucky One

“What do you want to kiss me for? I'm filthy.'- Liesel
So am I.'- Rudy”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

“I kissed him until everything that hurt inside me melted into a pool of black water so deep I couldn’t touch the bottom. As long as I was touching him, I wouldn’t drown.”

Laurie Halse Anderson (1961) American children's writer

Source: The Impossible Knife of Memory

Water, Hurt

“I stuck my head out the window this morning and spring kissed me bang in the face.”

Langston Hughes (1902–1967) American writer and social activist

Spring

“Immodest creature, you do not want a woman who will accept your faults, you want the one who pretends you are faultless – one who will caress the hand that strikes her and kiss the lips that lie to her.”

George Sand (1804–1876) French novelist and memoirist; pseudonym of Lucile Aurore Dupin

Mais, fat impudent, tu ne veux pas qu'on te pardonne, tu veux qu'on croie ou qu'on prétende n'avoir rien à te pardonner. Tu veux qu'on baise la main qui frappe et la bouche qui ment.
Source: Letter (17 June 1837) in The Intimate Journal of George Sand (1929) translated and edited by Marie Jenney Howe; also quoted in The Quotable Woman, 1800-1975 (1978) by Elaine Partnow

Lie

“We were screwed and he didn't even kiss us first.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Burns

“You ride well, but you don't kiss nicely at all.”

Thomas Hardy book A Pair of Blue Eyes

Source: A Pair of Blue Eyes

“He kisses like… like it could be his job.” Margot giggles and lifts the spoons off her eyes. “Like a male prostitute?”

Jenny Han book P.S. I Still Love You

Source: P.S. I Still Love You

“Did you just kiss me?" Will inquired.
Magnus made a slip-second decision. "No."
"I thought-"
"On occasion the aftereffects of the painkilling spells can result in hallucinations of the most bizarre sort."
"Oh," Will said. "How peculiar.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

Decision

“Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I'm in a coma: Hug me, honey, snuggly bunny; Love's as good as soma.”

Aldous Huxley (1894–1963) English writer

Love

“If you don't like it you can kiss my quiver”

Rick Riordan book The Last Olympian

Variant: Its our loot. If you don't like it, you can kiss my quiver
Source: The Last Olympian

“You can include me, too." William blew Olivia a kiss, and her cheeks heated with a blush. "No need to say anything. I already know what words are perched on your tongue. Stop me if I'm wrong, but my getting to know you will be your pleasure.”

Gena Showalter (1975) American writer

Source: The Darkest Passion

Pleasure

“It's hard not to respond when a master of the art of kissing is laying one on you.”

Charlaine Harris book Living Dead in Dallas

Source: Living Dead in Dallas

Art

“Kiss me…. Cassie…. Like you mean it.”

Karen Chance American writer

Source: Hunt the Moon

“My handsome Knight of Night came over to me and kissed me softly on the cheek.”

Ellen Schreiber (1967) American writer

Source: Royal Blood

Night

“Sometimes when I'm alone, I take the pearl from where it lives in my pocket and try to remember the boy with the bread, the strong arms that warded off nightmares on the train, the kisses in the arena. To make myself put a name to the thing I've lost. But what's the use? It's gone. He's gone. Whatever existed between us is gone. All that's left is my promise to kill Snow. I tell myself this ten times a day.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Katniss (p. 195)
Source: The Hunger Games trilogy, Mockingjay (2010)

Boy, Strong, Time, Training

“She thought she was only seeing him because she wanted to see him… It's a by-product of very dramatic kissing.”

Ally Carter book Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover

Source: Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover

“The sensation inside me grows warmer and spreads out from my chest down through my body out along my arms and legs to the tips of my being. Instead of satisfying me the kisses have the opposite effect of making my need greater.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

“I really can't think about kissing when I've got a rebellion to incite.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

Thinking

“So, if you have a grandma, thank the good Lord above, and give your grandmamma hugs and kisses, for grandmothers are to love.”

Lois Wyse (1926–2007) American advertising executive

Love, Grandma

“no more pep talks about believing in toads," Liza said.
"Don't they turn into princeses when you kiss them?" Bonnie said.
"Thats frogs," Liza Said. "Entirely different species.”

Jennifer Crusie book Bet Me

Source: Bet Me

“They held each other and kissed and pushed each others' darkness into the corner, believing in each others' light, each others' dream.”

Hubert Selby Jr. Requiem for a Dream

Source: Requiem for a Dream

Dreams, Light

“I'm going to kiss you… until you faint”

L.J. Smith The Forbidden Game

Source: The Forbidden Game

“You don't believe me?" Jace asked. "Fine. Go ahead. Kiss me right now."
Alec stared at him in horror.
"Exactly. Despite my staggering good lucks, you actually don't like me that way.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

Way

“People hide their truest nature. I understood that; I even applauded it. What sort of world would it be if people bled all over the sidewalks, if they wept under trees, smacked whomever they despised, kissed strangers, revealed themselves?”

Alice Hoffman book The Ice Queen

Source: The Ice Queen

People, World, Nature, Tree

“The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions — the little soon forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment, and the countless infinitesimals of pleasurable and genial feeling.”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) English poet, literary critic and philosopher

"The Friend. The Improvisatore" (1828)

Life, Pleasure, Smile, Feeling

“And why had Deb's last boyfriend dumped her?
I dumped him.
Maybe you didn't French-kiss him enough.
I promise you that wasn't it.
Tell me how many times a day you kissed, and I'll say if it was enough.
Four hundred.
Not enough.”

Miranda July (1974) American performance artist, musician and writer

Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You

Time

“Will you get off me!"
"But I'm giving you CPR-"
"I will die before kissing you, Hollywood." Z tried to sit up, his breathing heavy.
"Don't even think about it.”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: Lover at Last

Thinking

“Kissing Mother Superior, incompetent, hairball, poppy seeds, on the can.”

Jennifer Egan A Visit from the Goon Squad

Source: A Visit from the Goon Squad

“Claire stretched out against the wall and kissed it. "Glad to see you, too," she whispered, and pressed her cheek against the smooth surface. It almost felt like it hugged her back.
"Dude, it's a," Shane said from behind her. "Hug somebody who cares.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Lord of Misrule

“Once a person knows a kiss and a kind word, you can't blame him for never wanting to live without them again.”

Robert James Waller (1939–2017) American writer

Personality

“Now he was kissing me, not in a scary way, not with hostility, but with warm, seductive intent. In a hayloft, in the barn, in the middle of the night. This scene brought to you by the lettersand.”

Cate Tiernan (1961) American novelist

Source: Immortal Beloved

Hostility, Way, Night

“Tomorrow we will only give them
a leaf of the tree of our love, a leaf
which will fall on the earth
like if it had been made by our lips
like a kiss which falls
from our invincible heights
to show the fire and the tenderness
of a true love.”

Pablo Neruda (1904–1973) Chilean poet

Love, Tree

“In fairy tales, the princesses kiss the frogs, and the frogs become princes. In real life, the pricesses kiss princes, and the princes turn into frogs.”

Paulo Coelho book By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept (1994)
Variant: There's nothing deeper than love. In fairy tales, the princesses kiss the frogs, and the frogs become princes. In real life, the princesses kiss princes, and the princes turn into frogs.
Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

Life, Princess

“I am angry that I starved my brain and that I sat shivering in my bed at night instead of dancing or reading poetry or eating ice cream or kissing a boy…”

Laurie Halse Anderson Wintergirls

Source: Wintergirls

Boy, Reading, Dance, Night

“You never know when it will be the last time you'll see your father, or kiss your wife, or play with your little brother, but there's always a last time. If you could remember every last time, you'd never stop grieving.”

Jonathan Tropper (1970) American writer

Source: This is Where I Leave You

Time

“I cannot think of a better way to spread the faith. No thundering from a pulpit, no condemnation from bad churches, no peer pressure, just a book of scripture quietly waiting to say hello, as gentle and powerful as a little girl's kiss on your cheek.”

Yann Martel book Life of Pi

Source: Life of Pi (2001), Chapter 73, p. 230

Books, Faith, Way, Girl

“A first kiss after five months means more than a first kiss after five minutes.”

Steve Kluger (1952) American writer

Source: My Most Excellent Year

“Valentine Weather

Kiss me with rain on your eyelashes,
come on, let us sway together,
under the trees, and to hell with thunder.”

Edwin Morgan (1920–2010) Scottish poet and translator

Source: A Book of Lives

Hell, Tree, Weather

“I guess this is what marriage is, or was, or could be. You drop the mask. You allow the fatigue in. You lean across and kiss the years because they're the things that matter.”

Colum McCann book Let the Great World Spin

Source: Let the Great World Spin

Marriage

“I don't know what I expected from my first meeting with Peeta after the announcement. A few hugs and kisses. A little comfort maybe. Not this. I turn to Haymitch. "Don't worry, I'll get you more liquor.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

“Look at the sun sinkin' like a ship. Ain't that just like my heart, babe. When you kissed my lips?”

Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist

Song lyrics, Another Side of Bob Dylan (1964), It Ain't Me Babe
Context: Go away from my window,
Leave at your own chosen speed,
I'm not the one you want, babe,
I'm not the one you need.
You say you're looking for someone,
Who's never weak but always strong,
To protect you and defend you,
Whether you are right or wrong,
Someone to open each and every door,
But it ain't me, babe,
No, no, no, it ain't me, babe,
It ain't me you're looking for, babe.

Sun, Heart

“But there was only one kiss that made me feel something stir deep inside. Only one that made me want more. But my head wound started bleeding and he made me lie down.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

Lie, Feeling