#roma

I think in general, romantic comedies tend to take one person's point of view, but every once in a while you get something that is balanced for two people. ↗

— Sandra Bullock

#comedies #every #general #get #i

What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts. ↗

— Italo Calvino

#empirically #finding #following #genius #inspiration

Women today are dealing with both their independence and also the fact that their lives are built around finding and satisfying the romantic models we grew up with. ↗

— Jane Campion

#around #both #built #dealing #fact

Love enters later in life through the cracks left by the first heartbreak. ↗

— D. Biswas

#flash-fiction #literary #love #romance #death

I get in that kind of situation all the time, Comrade. It's not a big deal." Anger replaced my fear. I didn't like being treated like a child. "Stop calling me that. You don't even know what you're talking about." "Sure I do. I had to do a report on the R.S.S.R. last year. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#romance #vampires #anger

Scotsmen are metaphisical and emotional, they are sceptical and mystical, they are romantic and ironic, they are cruel and tender, and full of mirth and despair. ↗

— William Dunbar

#despair #emotional #full #ironic #mirth

You are my cock slut, my sex goddess, and my beautiful girl. That's all you need to know. ↗

— K.I. Lynn

#romance #beauty

It’s always funny watching something so beautiful not know how beautiful it really is. It’s sad even. ↗

— Holly Hood

#life #love #romance #beauty

It's harder and harder to make a well-done romantic comedy these days because the conventions have been so played out. ↗

— Dana Fox

#been #comedy #conventions #days #harder

I often think that he's the only one of us who's achieved immortality. I don't mean in the sense of fame and I don't mean he won't die someday. But he's living it. I think he is what the conception really means. You know how people long to be eternal. But they die with everyday that passes. . . They change, they deny, they contradict- and they call it growth. At the end there is nothing left, nothing unreveresed or unbetrayed; as if there had never been an entity, only a succession of adjectives fading in and out of an unformed mass. How do they expect a permanence which they never held for a single moment? But Howard- one can imagine him living forever. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#romance-novels #change