#roman

He's like a drug for you, Bella. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#romance #simile #romance

When Edward Gibbon was writing about the fall of the Roman Empire in the late 18th century, he could argue that transportation hadn't changed since ancient times. An imperial messenger on the Roman roads could get from Rome to London even faster in A.D. 100 than in 1750. But by 1850, and even more obviously today, all of that has changed. ↗

— Walter Russell Mead

#about #ancient #ancient times #argue #century

Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss! ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

#bliss #charming #colors #consummate #deceptive

For me, I sort of felt like it was kind of a fairytale... but an interesting one. I don't know of anybody who has had a romance quite like this, but I certainly know people who have stuck it out. ↗

— Ryan Gosling

#certainly #fairytale #felt #had #i

If I eat a huge meal and I can get the girl to rub my belly, I think that's about as romantic as I can think of. ↗

— Ryan Gosling

#belly #eat #get #girl #huge

The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime. ↗

— Billy Graham

#according #adventure #dictionary #excitement #extremely

The reason I turn down 99% of a hundred, I mean a thousand, scripts is because romantic comedies are often very romantic but seldom very funny. ↗

— Hugh Grant

#comedies #down #funny #hundred #i

We don't tend to write about disease in fiction - not just teen novels but all American novels - because it doesn't fit in with our idea of the heroic romantic epic. There is room only for sacrifice, heroism, war, politics and family struggle. ↗

— John Green

#american #because #disease #epic #family

I would have loved to do 'Alice in Wonderland.' Being a 'Bond' girl would always be fun. We had a lot of action in 'Eclipse' and I'd definitely like to continue down the action road. I want to do a romantic period piece, but those are really hard to get made because they're very expensive and there's not a huge demographic. ↗

— Ashley Greene

#alice #always #because #being #bond

I was blinded by being a romantic person. ↗

— Sienna Miller

#blinded #i #person #romantic