#roma

Finally, Charlie gave up the hunt and placed (the puppy) back on the floor, dispatching fleas was not his idea of a romantic evening, unless you happened to be a twisted exterminator, he thought. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#fleas #funny #humor #humour #pass-the-fleas-please

If anything was, that the world will always--it can only--disappoint. ↗

— Galt Niederhoffer

#disappoint #world #romantic

Mr. Herriton, don’t – please, Mr. Herriton – a dentist. His father’s a dentist.” Philip gave a cry of personal disgust and pain. He shuddered all over, and edged away from his companion. A dentist! A dentist at Monteriano. A dentist in fairyland! False teeth and laughing gas and the tilting chair at a place which knew the Etruscan League, and the Pax Romana, and Alaric himself, and the Countess Matilda, and the Middle Ages, all fighting and holiness, and the Renaissance, all fighting and beauty! He thought of Lilia no longer. He was anxious for himself: he feared that Romance might die. ↗

— E.M. Forster

#disgust #italy #romance #age

I'm probably a bit romantic about it, but I think we humans miss having contact with fire. We need it. ↗

— Jamie Oliver

#bit #contact #fire #having #humans

It's perfectly fair that you can't be a Roman Catholic priest unless you're a man. It seems right that the reach of anti-discriminatory law should stop at the door of the church or mosque. ↗

— Trevor Phillips

#church #door #fair #law #man

Point is, maybe some people wouldn't want to be around me all day, but there are people out there who would. And they're smart and funny. And they like some of the same things I like and hate some of the things I hate, but they also introduce me to all kinds of new things. That's as close to 'meant to be' as I can imagine. ↗

— Lauren Morrill

#romance #funny

Another such victory over the Romans, and we are undone. ↗

— Pyrrhus

#over #romans #such #undone #victory

I simply regard romantic comedies as a subgenre of sci-fi, in which the world created therein has different rules than my regular human world. ↗

— Mindy Kaling

#life #romantic-comedy #science-fiction #funny

I decided to write category romance as I'd recently discovered them, and enjoyed them. ↗

— Nora Roberts

#decided #discovered #enjoyed #i #recently

I have friends who are Roman Catholics. I have friends who are Lutherans. ↗