#roma

Don't think you can watch all the romantic movies, soap operas, TV shows and read all the romantic books out there and not be affected. Ninety-nine percent of the romantic stuff out there is garbage... and what you put in always comes out... UGLIER! ↗

— Osayi Osar-Emokpae

#learn #love #romantic #love

Readers understand that the books celebrate female power. In the romance novel, the woman always wins. With courage, intelligence and gentleness she brings the most dangerous creature on the earth, the human male, to his knees. ↗

— Jayne Ann Krentz

#courage

...sometimes we have to find the courage to take off our shoes and feel it all. Even the bad stuff. ↗

— Denise Hunter

#inspirational #romance #courage

I let out a gasp at the surprise with him getting to me so fast. It was kind of dating superman in that way, and instead of the cape and spandex, I got wings and a Armani suit! ↗

— Stephanie Hudson

#dating

Don't leave a piece of jewelry at his house so you can go back and get it later; he may be with his real girlfriend. ↗

— Amy Sedaris

#affairs #dating #jewelry #life #love

Here's something else to think about: calling when you say you're going to is the very first brick in the house you are building of love and trust. If he can't lay this one stupid brick down, you ain't never gonna have a house baby, and it's cold outside. ↗

— Greg Behrendt

#dating #greg #he-s-not-just-into-you #love #marriage

We're taught that in life, we should try to look on the bright side. Not in this case. In this case, assume rejection first. Assume you're the rule, not the exception. It's liberating. But we also know it's not an easy concept. -He's not just into you ↗

— Greg Behrendt

#greg-behrendt #he-s-not-just-into-you #humor #humour #love

...he had a way of taking your hand which made it clear he'd have to be the one to let go." From Alice Hoffman's "Local Girls", pg.102. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

#dating #female #fiction #love #relationship

Normal people don't date angels. ↗

— S.L. Naeole

#dating

Hey, if you'd wanted to avoid 'this,' you shouldn't have lured me last night. Now it's too late. You might as well avoid the long, drawn-out pain and get it over with quickly. Sort of like taking off a Band-Aid. Or cutting off a limb." "Wow, who says there's no romance left in the world? ↗

— Richelle Mead

#georgina #pain #roman #dating