I don’t know about you, but finding a great kissing scene in an already fantastic book is the icing on the cake for me. there are many ways to screw up writing a kiss or any sexy scene in books because it’s all so physical, but there are also many ways to make it memorable. in the books, a great kissing scene consists of the narrator’s feelings, thoughts, and atmosphere around the couple. it can be incredibly sweet and romantic, or sensual and hot. and I’m sure you have some favorites that you may or may not have read and reread several times.
Many young adult books capture these passionate kissing scenes because of the passionate first love, the first kiss, and all those epic firsts. However, that’s not to say that classic literature doesn’t have plenty of beautiful kissing moments. From some of the best literary novels of all time to new books that just came out, kissing scenes just keep getting better in the world of literature.
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With Valentine’s Day just a few days away, it’s time to celebrate love, happiness, and really cool kisses. If you want to read something amazing, but aren’t necessarily in the mood for a great romance novel, here are 14 of the best kissing moments in all of literature:
1. tear me apart by tahereh mafi
2. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
3. cameron’s rude post by emily m. danforth
4. glass city by cassandra clare
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He leaned in, his lips against her cheek, brushing gently, and yet that light touch sent shivers through her nerves, shivers that made her entire body tremble. “If you want me to stop, tell me now,” she whispered. when she still said nothing, he brushed his mouth against the hollow of her temple. “or now.” she traced the line of her cheekbone. “or now.” her lips were against hers.
“or—”
but she had reached up and pulled him to her, and the rest of her words were lost in her mouth. he kissed her gently, carefully, but it wasn’t gentleness she wanted, not now, not after all this time, and she knotted her fists into her shirt, pulling him tighter against her. he moaned softly, deep in her throat, and then her arms came around her, drawing her against him, and they rolled on the grass, tangled, still kissing.
5. only one day of gayle form
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When he finally kisses me on the mouth, everything becomes eerily quiet, like the moment of silence between lightning and thunder. a mississippi. two mississippi. three mississippi. four mississippi. five mississippi.
explosion.
We kiss again. the next kiss is one of those that open the sky. It steals my breath and returns it to me. It shows me that every other kiss I’ve ever had in my life has been wrong.
6. mrs. dalloway by virginia woolf
7. anna and the french kiss by stephanie perkins
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“Kiss me,” I say. she does it.
8. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. paddle
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There was a noise as basilisk fangs cascaded from Hermione’s arms. Running to Ron, she threw them around her neck and kissed him full on the mouth. Ron tossed the fangs and broomstick he was holding and responded with such enthusiasm that he picked up Hermione.
“Is this the time?” Harry asked weakly, and when nothing happened except Ron and Hermione holding on even tighter and staggering on the spot, she raised her voice. “hears! there is a war here! Ron and Hermione parted ways, their arms still around each other. “I know, mate,” Ron said, looking like he’d recently been hit in the back of the head with a Bludger. “so it’s now or never, right?”
9. the fault in our stars by john green
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“waters of augustus,” I said, looking at him, thinking that you can’t kiss anyone in the anne frank house, and then thinking that anne frank did, after all, kiss someone in the anne frank house, and that she probably loves nothing more than that her home has become a place where the young and hopelessly broken fall in love.
“I must say,” Otto Frank said in the video in his accented English, “I was very surprised at the deep thoughts Anne was having.” and then we kissed. my hand released the oxygen cart and I reached for his neck, and he lifted me by the waist and put me on my tiptoes. when his parted lips met mine, I began to feel breathless in a new and fascinating way. the space around us evaporated, and for a strange moment I really liked my body; this cancer-ruined thing I spent years dragging around suddenly seemed worth it, it was worth the chest tubes and picc lines and the relentless bodily betrayal of tumors.
10. the great gatsby by f. scott fitzgerald
11. siddharta by hermann hesse
12. fangirl by rainbow rowell
cath closed the book and dropped it on levi’s chest, not knowing what happened next. she wasn’t sure she was awake, all things considered. the moment she fell from her, he pulled her to him. over him with both of her arms her chest pressed against his, and her paperback slipped between her stomachs.
cath’s eyes were half-closed, as were levi’s, and her lips only looked small from a distance, she realized, due to her wrist frown. they were perfectly large, actually, now that she had a good look at them. perfectly something. he brought her nose close to his, and her mouths met sleepily, already soft and open. When Cath’s eyes closed, her lids clogged. she wanted to open them. she wanted to get a better look at levi’s too dark eyebrows, she wanted to admire her crazy vampire hairline; She had a feeling that this would never happen again and that it might even ruin what was left of her life, so she decided she wanted to open her eyes and give some testimony.
but I was so tired. and her mouth was so soft.
and no one had ever kissed cath like this before. only abel had kissed her before, and that was like being pushed right into her mouth and pushed back.
Levi’s kisses were taking. as if he was getting something out of her with small, gentle taps on her chin. she put her fingers in her hair and couldn’t open her eyes.
13. the sky is everywhere by jandy nelson
what’s wrong? Now I really can’t breathe a situation made worse by lips suddenly pressing together
to mine.
our tongues fell madly in love and got married and moved to paris.
after I’m sure I’ve made up for all my previous years without kissing, I say “I think if we don’t stop kissing, the world is going to explode.”
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“It seems so,” he whispers.
14. romeo and juliet by william shakespeare
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romeo
If I profane with my undignified hand this sacred sanctuary, the soft fine is this: my lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready to soften that rough touch with a tender kiss.
juliet, good pilgrim, you mistreat your hand too much, which in this shows courteous devotion; because the saints have hands that the hands of the pilgrims do touch, and palm to palm is the kiss of the clapper saints.
Romeo doesn’t have the lips of saints, and palmeros saints too?
julietay, pilgrim, lips that should be used in prayer.
romeoo, then, dear saint, let the lips do what the hands do; pray, grant it, so that faith does not turn to despair.
juliet’s saints do not move, although they grant for the sake of prayers.
romeothen don’t move, while I take the effect of my prayer. so from my lips, by yours, my sin is cleansed.
juliet then let my lips have the sin they have taken.
romeosin from your lips? oh sweetly urged transgression! give me back my sin.
julietyou kiss by the book.
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