Quotes about kiss
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“You intend to kiss me and yet you are going to all this damn trouble about it.”

William Faulkner (1897–1962) American writer

“It's amazing that something as simple as a kiss can overpower the worst of worries.”

Source: Unwind

“There was also a rumor that later in the day, she walked fully clothed into the Amper River and said something very strange.
Something about a kiss.
Something about a Saumensch.
How many times did she have to say goodbye?”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

Time, Clothes

“The sound of my name in his voice stopped me in midturn. I don't know how the hell he did it, but whenever he said my name, it cut through all other distractions and made me pause, as if he'd clenched me to him and kissed me.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Slays

Hell

“We breathe, sleep, drink, eat, work and then die! The end of life is death. What do you long for? Love? A few kisses and you will be powerless. Money? What for? To gratify your desires. Glory? What coems after it all? Death! Death alone is certain.”

Guy De Maupassant Bel-Ami

Source: Bel-Ami

Love, Life, Death, Money

“Kiss me now, love me now.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book Tender Is the Night

Source: Tender Is the Night

Love

“Darlin'… I know what you look like when you've been kissed.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Sugar Daddy

“Was that amazing?” she demanded.

“That was amazing,” I agreed. It’s hard to pull off a romantic kiss when you’re both drenched in muck, but we gave it our best shot.”

Rick Riordan book The Demigod Diaries

Source: The Demigod Diaries

“I remembered the last time Annabeth and I had parted ways, when she'd given me a kiss for luck in Mount St. Helens. This time, all I got was the hat.”

Rick Riordan book The Battle of the Labyrinth

Source: The Battle of the Labyrinth

Way, Time, Parting

“He held her close enough to kiss, close enough to whisper the most important secrets in the world, and he spoke to her as he would have wanted some good angel to speak to his family, to his own shivering young soul, long ago and in a land far away.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: Saving Raphael Santiago

Secret, World, Family, Angels

“Hollywood's a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss, and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty cents.”

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer

As quoted in Marilyn Monroe : In Her Own Words (1983), edited by Roger Taylor
Variant: Hollywood's a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss, and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty cents.

Soul

“It was just a kiss – "
"Yeah, and King Kong was just a monkey.”

Linda Howard (1950) American writer

Source: After the Night

“Relax, Jailbait," said Avery. "A drunken kiss is nothing compared to a drunken fall. God knows I've kissed plenty of guys drunk."
"And yet, I remain unkissed tonight," mused Adrian.”

Richelle Mead Blood Promise

Source: Blood Promise

God, Guy

“Oh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!”

Zora Neale Hurston book Their Eyes Were Watching God

Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God

World, Tree, Bee, Singing

“But everybody has exactly the same smiling frightened face, with the look that says: "I'm important. If you only get to know me, you will see how important I am. Look into my eyes. Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.”

Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

Smile

“I almost went to bed
without remembering
the four white violets
I put in the button-hole
of your green sweater

and how i kissed you then
and you kissed me
shy as though I’d
never been your lover”

Leonard Cohen (1934–2016) Canadian poet and singer-songwriter

Source: The Spice Box of Earth

Lovers

“Remember, we're madly in love, so it‘s all right to kiss me anytime you feel like it.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Peeta Mellark, p. 253
Source: The Hunger Games trilogy, The Hunger Games (2008)

Love, Feeling

“The kiss originated when the first male reptile licked the first female reptile, implying in a subtle way that she was as succulent as the small reptile he had for dinner the night before.”

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

Way, Night

“Dimitri: "Do not do that again."Rose: "Don't kiss me back then."- Dimitri Belikov & Rose Hathaway (Frostbite)”

Richelle Mead book Frostbite

Source: Frostbite

“So how was it?" she asked. "Kissing Curran?"
"I can't let him kiss me again, because if he does, I'll sleep with him."
Andrea blinked. "Well," she said finally, "At least you know where you stand.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Strikes

Sleep

“Everything was chocolate ice cream and kisses and wind.”

Francesca Lia Block (1962) American children's writer

Source: The Hanged Man

“The little boy smiled back at all the angry faces glaring in at him. And the little boy blew kisses.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Choke

Source: Choke

Smile, Boy

“Then how about one kiss?' he said with a sexy grin. 'Something to remember me by?'

'I’ll give you something to remember me by,' I said. The back of my head.' I pushed past him and escaped through the door to freedom.”

Ellen Schreiber (1967) American writer

Source: The Coffin Club

Freedom, Past

“No: What the heck happened?
Or: Why did you go from nearly kissing me to tossing me across your yard and into the patio furniture?”

Alyson Nöel book Dark Flame

Source: Dark Flame

“Bubba made a sound of disapproval "You're not supposed to be kissing on anybody else, Miss Sookie" he said "Bill said it was okay, but I don't like it.”

Charlaine Harris book Dead to the World

Source: Dead to the World

“Take me from this earth
an endless night-
this, the end of life.
From the dark I feel your lips
and taste your bloody kiss.”

Anne Rice (1941) American writer

Life, Feeling, Night

“Literature was the only religion her father practiced, when a book fell on the floor he kissed it, when he was done with a book he tried to give it away to someone who would love it.”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Love, Books, Religion, Literature

“Desire is not always lessened by disgust. Nor can it be bestowed, like a favor, to those most deserving of it. And as my words bind my magic, so you can know the truth. If she doesn’t desire his kiss, she won’t be free.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

Truth

“In death, they all looked the same. This morning they spoke, they breathed, they kissed their loved ones good-bye. And now they lay dead. Gone forever.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Burns

Love, Death, Dead

“Oh God, I just kissed a vampire!"

Oh Gods, I just kissed a human!”

Sherrilyn Kenyon book Night Pleasures

Variant: Amanda - "Oh God, I just kissed a vampire!" Kyrian - "Oh Gods, I just kissed a human!
Source: Night Pleasures

God

“If you must know, I-I had never in my life kissed a young lady, and you are far too beautiful to me to want to get it wrong!”

Diana Wynne Jones book Castle in the Air

Source: Castle in the Air

Life, Beauty

“Since the invention of the kiss, there have only been five kisses that were rated the most passionate, the most pure. This one left them all behind.”

William Goldman (1931–2018) American novelist, screenwriter and playwright

Relationship, For Him, For Boyfriend, Passion

“Seth was a wonderful kisser. He gave the kind of kisses that melted into your mouth and filled you with sweetness. They were like cotton candy.”

Richelle Mead (1976) American writer

Source: Succubus Dreams

“My peer would have to be dark-haired and handsome, a wonderful dancer… and he would never ask permission before he kissed me." -Lillian Bowman”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Secrets of a Summer Night

“At the moment when her eyes closed, when all feeling vanished in her, she thought that she felt a touch of fire imprinted on her lips, a kiss more burning than the red-hot iron of the executioner.”

Victor Hugo book The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Source: The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

Feeling

“Everyone winds up kissing the wrong person goodnight.”

Andy Warhol (1928–1987) American artist

Variant: Everybody winds up kissing the wrong person goodnight.

Personality

“I loved the way he kissed me, as if he had to, as if he’d go crazy if he didn’t and had nearly waited too”

Sylvia Day book Bared to You

Variant: I loved the way he kissed me, as if he had to, as if he'd go crazy if he didn't and had nearly waited too long.
Source: Bared to You

Love, Way, Waiting

“I'll kiss you until we can't breathe. I'll strip you naked and taste every inch of you. Then I'll shag you until neither of us can see straight.”

Meljean Brook (1977)

Source: The Iron Duke

“She'd met Colin on a Monday.
She'd kissed him on a Friday.
Twelve years later.
She sighed. It seemed fairly pathetic.”

Julia Quinn (1970) American novelist

Source: Romancing Mister Bridgerton

“Em,” he said again, his eyes wide and dark blue in the dim light. “Did you kiss Mark the other night?”

Cassandra Clare book Lady Midnight

Source: Lady Midnight

Light, Night

“I'm so into you, it's not even funny. (Naomi & Ely's No Kiss List)”

Rachel Cohn (1968) American writer

“Do stuff. Be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead.”

Susan Sontag (1933–2004) American writer and filmmaker, professor, and activist

Wise, Life, Waiting

“But when they kissed goodnight in bed, Therese felt their sudden release, that leap of response in both of them, as if their bodies were of some materials which put together inevitably created desire.”

Patricia Highsmith book The Price of Salt

Source: The Price of Salt

“If you happen to pass by 84 Charing Cross Road, kiss it for me? I owe it so much.”

Helene Hanff book 84, Charing Cross Road

Source: 84, Charing Cross Road

“One day you may kiss a man you can’t breathe without, and find breath is of little consequence.”
“Right, and one day my prince might come.”
“I doubt he’ll be a prince, Ms. Lane. Men rarely are.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Bloodfever

Men

“One day you will kiss a man you can't breathe without, and find that breath is of little consequence.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Bloodfever

“He could do only one thing at a time. If he held her, he couldn't kiss her. If he kissed her, he couldn't see her. If he saw her, he couldn't feel her.”

Arundhati Roy book The God of Small Things

Source: The God of Small Things

Feeling, Time

“Boy poison - a boy's kisses were like a poison, which infected you and after you were exposed you craved more, like an addict.”

Susan Minot (1956) American author and screenwriter

Source: Rapture

Boy

“How to stop time: kiss.
How to travel in time: read.
How to escape time: music.
How to feel time: write.
How to release time: breathe.”

Matt Haig book Reasons to Stay Alive

Source: Reasons to Stay Alive

Motivational, Deep, Success, Inspirational

“Eating a raw oyster is like french kissing a mermaid.”

Tom Robbins (1932) American writer

“Are you ever going to kiss me without swearing first?”

Christine Feehan American writer

Source: A Christine Feehan Holiday Treasury

“I've lost track of where friendship ends and falling begins.
(this is the foolish refrain of the hopelessly devoted.)
there are times I want to kiss you midsentence.
undo the not-doing with one gesture.”

David Levithan The Realm of Possibility

Source: The Realm of Possibility

Friendship, Time

“Kissing is something that makes up for a lot of other crap you have to put up with… It can be confusing and weird and awkward, but sometimes it just makes you melt and forget everything that is going on.”

Maureen Johnson (1973) writer from the USA

Source: The Name of the Star

Forgetting

“They kissed for the sort of endless moment that only exists between lovers whose lips are still new territory to one another.”

Scott Lynch book Red Seas Under Red Skies

Source: Red Seas Under Red Skies

Lovers

“Let me get this straight. The future of our relationship hinged on advice from a fifteen-year-old girl, a probably untrue story from a one-eyed Chihuahua trainer, and me unromantically - yet skillfully - kissing you on top of silverware and china?”

Richelle Mead book The Indigo Spell

Variant: The future of our relationship hinged on advice from a fifteen-year old girl, a probably untrue story from a one-eyed Chihuahua trainer, and me unromantically – yet skillfully – kissing you on top of silverware and china?
Source: The Indigo Spell

Girl, Future