#anti

He walked hesitantly toward her and then wrapped his arms around her in a gentle hug. “You just looked like you needed one,” he said. ↗

— Maya Banks

#romantic-suspense #romantic

Chretien speaking to Dominic: 'Magda is no ordinary young woman. There is a blood price on her head way beyond that upon any Cathar, indeed way beyond mine. I advise you most strongly to think with your head, not your loins.' 'I am thinking,' Dominic said softly, 'with my heart. ↗

— Elizabeth Chadwick

#romantic

I know girls who pine for it. They like to play dress-up and pretend being Vor ladies of old, rescued from menace by romantic Vor youths. For some reason they never play 'dying in childbirth', or 'vomiting your guts out from the red dysentery', or 'weaving till you go blind and crippled from arthritis and dye poisoning', or 'infanticide'. Well, they do die romantically of disease sometimes, but somehow it's always an illness that makes you interestingly pale and everyone sorry and doesn't involve losing bowel control. ↗

— Lois McMaster Bujold

#history #romantic

عندما أرسم صورة شعرية لَها فإن القصيدة تصبح إصغاء للذّات ، و ليست قولاً لِمخاطبتها .. ↗

— مريد البرغوثي

#romantic

Everest has always been a magnet for kooks, publicity seekers, hopeless romantics and others with a shaky hold on reality. ↗

— Jon Krakauer

#romantic

All my happiness seems caught up in one of your smiles. - Jered Mandeville, 'Upon a Wicked Time ↗

— Karen Ranney

#romantic

I don't care who kissed you first, as long as I kissed you last - George (If we kiss) ↗

— Rachel Vail

#romantic

Bravery isn't when you go looking for trouble; bravery is when trouble comes looking for you. ↗

— P.I. Barrington

#cult #future-imperfect-trilogy #futuristic #las-vegas #romantic-suspense

Aku tidak percaya akan cinta pada pandangan pertama. Tapi harus kuakui, aku menyukai apa yang kulihat pada pandangan pertama. ↗

— Francisca Todi

#relationship #romance #romance-novels #romantic #romantic-comedy

The rites of passage in the academic world are arcane and, in their own way, highly romantic, and the tensions and unplesantries of dissertations and final oral examinations are quickly forgotten in the wonderful moment of the sherry afterward, admission into a very old club, parties of celebration, doctoral gowns, academic rituals, and hearing for the first time "Dr.," rather than "Miss" Jamison. ↗

— Kay Redfield Jamison

#romantic