#roma

Fairy tales for adult readers remained popular throughout Europe well into the 19th century — particularly in Germany, where the Brothers Grimm published their massive collection of German fairy tales (revised and edited to reflect the Brothers’ patriotic and patriarchal ideals), providing inpiration for novelists, poets, and playrights among the German Romantics. Recently, fairy tale scholars have re–discovered the enormous body of work produced by women writers associated with the German Romantics: Grisela von Arnim, Sophie Tieck Bernhardi, Karoline von Günderrode, Julie Berger, and Sophie Albrecht, to name just a few. ↗

— Terri Windling

#fairy-tales-for-adults #feminism #germany #magical-stories #stories

If I told you your bare ass looks fantastic in the moonlight, would you hold that against me? ↗

— Pamela Clare

#romantic-suspense #romantic

He wanted to tell her that if it were simply a matter of crossing the river Styx and trading places with Beau, he'd be gone in a heartbeat. ↗

— Pamela Clare

#romantic

Most. Fantastic. Lover. Ever. ↗

— Shannon McKeldon

#fairy-godmother-comedy #mythological #romantic-comedy #romantic

i have been used something fierce in my time but i am no bum sport archy i am a free spirit archy i look on myself as being quite a romantic character oh the queens i have been and the swell feeds i have ate a cockroach which you are and a poet which you used to be archy couldn t understand my feelings at having come down to this i have had bids to elegant feeds where poets and cockroaches would neither one be mentioned without a laugh archy i have had adventures but i have never been an adventuress ↗

— Don Marquis

#romantic

bercinta dengan mu lewat jemari dan beberapa kata yang akhirnya membuatmu nafsu untuk jatuh lebih dalam dalam pelukanku ↗

— arienfit

#romantic

If we truly detach from our childhood and abandon our inherent romanticism, then we shred any bit of humanity left in us. ↗

— Evan Meekins

#fantasy #fantasy-fiction #fiction #humanity #romantic

He had always liked a good mess—God knows he had sure made a few. In typical form, he squared his shoulders, furrowed his brows and muttered, “bring it on. ↗

— Shelley K. Wall

#romance #romantic-suspense #suspense #romantic

The time to read Madame Bovary is when your romantic hopes and desires have crashed, and you will believe that your future relationships will have disappointing - even devastating - consequences. ↗

— John Irving

#relationships #romantic

Sphinx Resurrected by Christine Murphy gives a new romantic twist to the realm of the paranormal. The world building is extraordinary and pulls you in to the powerful domain of the Sphinx Warriors and won’t let you go. ↗

— Marti Ziegler

#romantic