#ant

When was the last time she'd actually had a relationship based on reality, instead of some completely invented fantasy she'd written in her head? In her stupid, silly, romantic head. ↗

— Harriet Evans

#romantic

I turn even more flustered when I remember that I have actually pistol-whipped him in the face before. Romantic. ↗

— Marie Lu

#june #romantic

In some deep place in her heart, Caroline had kept alive the silly romantic notion that somehow David Henry had once known her as no one else ever could. But it was not true. He had never even glimpsed her. ↗

— Kim Edwards

#heartbreak #romantic

When I get excited I drool. That’s why I buy bibs wholesale from my dentist. Based on that alone you could label me a romantic.
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— Jarod Kintz

#deal #dentist #drool #excite #excited

I'm sitting opposite you in the bar, waiting for you to uncross your boundaries. I want to rip off your logic and make passionate sense to you. I want to ride in the swing of your hips. My fingers will dig in you like quotation marks, blazing your limbs into parts of speech. ↗

— Jeffrey McDaniel

#the-jerk #romantic

Tom. Tom, look at me. Has Nora agreed to marry you?" "No, but she will because she has to. ↗

— Robyn Carr

#robyn-carr #romance #romantic #romantic

And the Flatline aligned the nose of Kuang's sting with the center of the dark below. And dove. Case's sensory input warped with their velocity. His mouth filled with an aching taste of blue. His eyes were eggs of unstable crystal, vibrating with a frequency whose name was rain and the sounds of trains, suddenly sprouting a humming forest of hair-fine spines. The spines split, bisected, split again, exponential growth under the dome of the Tessier-Ashpool ice. ↗

— William Gibson

#future #matrix #science #science-fiction #science

Ladies. We've got a rat in our midst. ↗

— Sydnie Riley

#romantic-comedy #sherry-james #romantic

Christianity is realistic because it says that if there is no truth, there is also no hope; and there can be no truth if there is no adequate base. It is prepared to face the consequences of being proved false and say with Paul: If you find the body of Christ, the discussion is finished, let us eat and drink for tomorrow we die. It leaves absolutely no room for a romantic answer. ↗

— Francis A. Schaeffer

#romantic

Just give me a bit, let me pretend you're still alive," Andrei said hoarsely. "Let me pretend that I don't have to give you up." "Andrei," Warm, calloused hands cupped Anrei's face. "Look at me. I'm real. I'm still with you. A part of me will always be with you. Even after I go through that doorway. ↗

— Marguerite Labbe

#m-m-paranormal #romantic #romantic