1.
Kiss me and you will see how important I am.
—Sylvia Plath
—Sylvia Plath
2.
Kiss me until I forget how terrified I am of everything wrong with my life.
—Beau Taplin
—Beau Taplin
3.
How she felt when he kissed her—like a tub of roses swimming in honey, cologne, nutmeg and blackberries.
—Samuel Sullivan Cox
—Samuel Sullivan Cox
4.
He took her into his arms again, using all his strength to be gentle, and let his lips touch hers so lightly he could hardly feel it.
—Morgan Llywelyn
—Morgan Llywelyn
5.
His kisses tapped into deep mines of memory, and the years that had separated us fell away as if they were nothing.
—Lisa Kleypas
—Lisa Kleypas
6.
A kiss is a secret told to the mouth instead of the ear; kisses are the messengers of love and tenderness.
—Ingrid Bergman
—Ingrid Bergman
7.
And we were kissing like drowning people breathe—like suddenly we’d discovered something that has never been so sweet before that moment.
—Morgan Matson
—Morgan Matson
8.
The kiss itself is immortal. It travels from lip to lip, century to century, from age to age. Men and women garner these kisses, offer them to others and then die in turn.
—Guy de Maupassant
—Guy de Maupassant
9.
I kiss her. I kiss her and kiss her. I try not to bite her lip. She tastes like vodkahoney.
—Lidia Yuknavitch
—Lidia Yuknavitch
10.
We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine.
—Eduardo Galeano
—Eduardo Galeano
11.
It was the kiss of a man who had waited years for the moment, and feared that it would never come again.
—Jana Oliver
—Jana Oliver
12.
The first kiss can be as terrifying as the last.
—Daina Chaviano
—Daina Chaviano
13.
It was a kiss to level mountains and shake stars from the sky. It was a kiss to make angels faint and demons weep…a passionate, demanding, soul-searing kiss that nearly knocked the earth off its axis.
—Lisa Kleypas
—Lisa Kleypas
14.
You should be kissed and by someone who knows how.
—Margaret Mitchell
—Margaret Mitchell
15.
If you kiss on the first date and it’s not right, then there will be no second date. Sometimes it’s better to hold out and not kiss for a long time. I am a strong believer in kissing being very intimate, and the minute you kiss, the floodgates open for everything else.
—Jennifer Lopez
—Jennifer Lopez
16.
My first kiss. A new kind of kiss, like the new kind of music still playing, softly, in the distance—wild and arrhythmic, desperate. Passionate.
—Lauren Oliver
—Lauren Oliver
17.
Now a soft kiss—aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss.
—John Keats
—John Keats
18.
Hollywood is a place where they’ll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.
—Marilyn Monroe
—Marilyn Monroe
19.
It was the best first kiss in the history of first kisses. It was as sweet as sugar. And it was warm, as warm as pie. The whole world opened up and I fell inside. I don’t know where I was, but I didn’t care. I didn’t care because the only person who mattered was there with me.
—Sarah Addison Allen
—Sarah Addison Allen
20.
How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.
—Victor Hugo
—Victor Hugo
21.
A first kiss is the demarcation line: the same information that a moment ago felt private, all of a sudden seems unfair to withhold. And with that exchange came more.
—Francesca Marciano
—Francesca Marciano
22.
Then she was kissing him as she had never kissed him before…and it was blissful oblivion, better than firewhisky; she was the only real thing in the world.
—J. K. Rowling
—J. K. Rowling
23.
I’m going to kiss you now, and I don’t know if I’ll ever stop.
—Jamie McGuire
—Jamie McGuire
24.
A kiss that is never tasted, is forever and ever wasted.
—Billie Holiday
—Billie Holiday
25.
He kisses like he’s dying of thirst, and I’m water.
—Jennifer L. Armentrout
—Jennifer L. Armentrout
26.
A kiss is a rosy dot over the ‘i’ of loving.
—Cyrano de Bergerac
—Cyrano de Bergerac
27.
Well, it’s either kiss me or kill me, that’s how I see it.
—Tom Waits
—Tom Waits
28.
The kiss is neither returned nor exchanged, because it’s free.
—Charles de Leusse
—Charles de Leusse
29.
The sunlight claps the earth, and the moonbeams kiss the sea: what are all these kissings worth, if thou kiss not me?
—Percy Bysshe Shelley
—Percy Bysshe Shelley
30.
My nose itched, and I knew I should drink wine or kiss a fool.
—Jonathan Swift
—Jonathan Swift
31.
Kissing you is terrifying, breathing your same air makes my knees weak, when I’m around you it’s a tie between wanting to chase you down—or just kiss you until you can’t breathe.
—Rachel Van Dyken
—Rachel Van Dyken
32.
Our only kiss was like an accident—a beautiful gasoline rainbow.
—Alice Sebold
—Alice Sebold
33.
He tangles his hand in my hair, and the other cups my jaw. Although I have this all planned, his lips feel shockingly sweet, swollen and soft, and more like home every time.
—Alex Rosa
—Alex Rosa
34.
A kiss on the beach when there is a full moon is the closest thing to heaven.
—H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
—H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
35.
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
—Ernest Hemingway
36.
His mouth seizes mine. Consuming me. Devouring me. My body moves against his. Harder. Faster. Take me. Take all of me…
—Alexia Russell
—Alexia Russell
37.
I prefer a kiss that is so much more than just a tongue in your mouth.
—Katherine Heigl
—Katherine Heigl
38.
The truth is, I always want to kiss you.
—Alex Rosa
—Alex Rosa
39.
I was going to kiss him, and I was going to regret it. But at that moment, I couldn’t bring myself to care.
—Michelle Hodkin
—Michelle Hodkin
40.
Your love is not really love until you waste it, a kiss is never a kiss until you taste it…
—Munia Khan
—Munia Khan
41.
The lover steals a kiss. He incurs life imprisonment.
—Charles de Leusse
—Charles de Leusse
42.
Kiss me out of desire, but not consolation.
—Jeff Buckley
—Jeff Buckley
43.
It’s the kind of kiss that inspires stars to climb into the sky and light up the world.
—Tahereh Mafi
—Tahereh Mafi
44.
Kissing—and I mean like, yummy, smacking kissing – is the most delicious, most beautiful and passionate thing that two people can do, bar none. Better than sex, hands down.
—Drew Barrymore
—Drew Barrymore
45.
Her lips touched his brain as they touched his lips, as though they were a vehicle of some vague speech and between them he felt an unknown and timid pressure, darker than the swoon of sin, softer than sound or odor.
—James Joyce
—James Joyce
46.
And somehow, against all reason, we were kissing. I closed my eyes, and the world around me faded.
—Richelle Mead
—Richelle Mead
47.
Boys always like to see girls kiss. I don’t get it; girls don’t want to see boys kiss.
—Dominique Swain
—Dominique Swain
48.
Make me immortal with a kiss.
—Christopher Marlowe
—Christopher Marlowe
49.
Unfortunately, I like to feel a little stubble when I kiss. Women are too soft.
—Malin Akerman
—Malin Akerman
50.
One day you will kiss a man you can’t breathe without, and find that breath is of little consequence.
—Karen Marie Moning
—Karen Marie Moning
