#roma

Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they've been hurt, they're sensitive, and their cynicism is a shell that's protecting this tiny, dear part in them that's still alive. ↗

— Jeff Bridges

#alive #been #crushed #cynicism #cynics

I'm not real good at romance. ↗

— Jeff Bridges

#i #real #romance

Romances I ne'er read like those I have seen. ↗

— George Byron

#like #read #romances #seen #those

It's been such a deep and amazing journey for me, getting close to John Keats, and also I love Shelley and Byron. I mean, the thing about the Romantic poets is that they've got the epitaph of romantic posthumously. They all died really young, and Keats, the youngest of them all. ↗

— Jane Campion

#also #amazing #been #byron #close

Her father was an intimidating man who held fast to his belief in his African heritage; that black should not marry white to avoid racial confusion. She was in love with a white man whose mother wished to keep her family's heritage intact by not crossbreeding with another race. ↗

— Katherine Vogel

#bwwm #interracial-romance #family

The stars twinkled above him brilliantly, representing all of the beautiful laws of the universe. ↗

— Keira D. Skye

#young-adult-fiction #young-adult-novels #young-adult-romance #beauty

V-Day…if you need this one day in a year to show everyone else you truly care for “your loved one” I think it’s quite stupid. I hate this commercialism. It’s all artificial, and has nothing to do with real love. ↗

— Jess C. Scott

#books #cool #culture #desire #emotion

She screamed, the high scream that was neither human nor animal but something terrible in between, the sort of sound that you never forget no matter how many beautiful things you hear afterward. ↗

— Maggie Stiefvater

#werewolves #beauty

Get some sleep Trina, I promise I will still love you in the morning and then every morning after that. ↗

— Lilliana Anderson

#romance-is-bliss #sigh-worthy #beauty

I grew up in a very old-fashioned Roman Catholic, Italian-Irish family in Philly. ↗

— Bradley Cooper

#family #grew #i #old-fashioned #philly