#roma

You never get mad,” she said when their server left the table. “Except at me.” “That’s not true,” he said tightly. “Torie can get me going.” “Torie doesn’t count. You were obviously her mother in a previous life. ↗

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#romance #humor

Your life needs an airbag. I swear, Anastagio, you should have come equipped when you were born. ↗

— Damon Suede

#life

I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been." -Virginia Woolf ↗

— Michael Cunningham

#life #romance #life

Saying you're through with romance is like saying you're done with living, Betty. Life is better with a little romance, you know. ↗

— Gabrielle Zevin

#boyfriends #granddaughters #grandmothers #life #romance

Are you threatening me?” He looked completely outraged at such a thing. “You bet your incredibly attractive and probably hard enough to bounce a quarter off ass I am!” she snapped back. An indescribable look flitted across his face. “You are the most irreverent woman I’ve ever met.” “And you’re the handsomest man I’ve ever seen in my life, but that doesn’t mean I’m going to lick you!” she yelled. ↗

— Katie MacAlister

#licking #romance #humor

The things that knock you down in life are tests, forcing you to make a choice between giving in and remaining on the ground or wiping the dirt off and standing up even taller than you did before you were knocked down. I'm choosing to stand up taller. ↗

— Colleen Hoover

#life

Stay here with me, Trishy. Don’t go back to your old life. Make a new one, here. With me. I know it’s a hell of a big thing I’m asking—but I’m asking. Stay. - Joe ↗

— Toni Blake

#life

But do you want this? It's not much of a life. Don't you see? It's the first life I've had in four hundred years. With you--in the only way that matters--I'm alive again. ↗

— Claudia Gray

#romance #skye-tierney #life

I have the right to try to overcome the challenges in my own life, she continued fiercely. Who's to say that's not what makes as strong and decent? How much character and strength do you think someone who's never had any sorrow or loss of hardship possesses, My lord? ↗

— Joey W. Hill

#life

He would ask nothing else from life if he would be allowed to protect and cherish her for the rest of his. ↗

— Julie Anne Long

#romance #life