#roman

I figure we go through things that make us stronger, but we also go through things that just simply piss us off. ↗

— Meg Winkler

#experience #life #romance #dating

I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun. ↗

— Jane Austen

#romance #love

Sometimes you loose a battle. but mischief always wins the war. ↗

— John Green

#funny #john-green #looking-for-alaska #romance #funny

I didn’t mean to fall in love with you, but I did. - Chelsea ↗

— Rachel Gibson

#romance #love

I think I found your vampire,” Andrew said, except this time he wasn’t so amused. However, Gabriella was, her smile huge as she laughed, the sound a trill in the densely packed cold air. “You think this is funny?” The words came out surly, but Andrew couldn’t stop his lips from twitching over her amusement. “I thought they’d be bigger,” she said, stifling another round of giggles. “Are you okay?” “Just a flesh wound. ↗

— Laura Kreitzer

#fantasy #fiction #key-of-pearl #laura-kreitzer #paranormal-fantasy

I know it's hard to blame the time, but there's a bit of an expectation for a summer movie. I think that 'Superman Returns' was a bit nostalgic and romantic, and I don't think that was what people were expecting, especially in the summer. ↗

— Bryan Singer

#blame #especially #expectation #expecting #hard

Because when i first saw you i thought-no, i knew- you were special. Because i still think that every time i look at you. Because i think you're smart and funny and brave. But most of all" he grins at me- "because i like questions." -Greg ↗

— Elizabeth Scott

#funny #romantic #funny

I don't think having a My Chemical Romance action figure will make a kid start his own band, I like to think it will make him save children from a burning building. ↗

— Gerard Way

#action figure #band #building #burning #chemical

Part of what is wrong with the view of American imperialism is that it is antithetical to our interests. We are better off when people are governing themselves. I'm sure there is some guy that will tell you that philosophy is no different from the Roman Empire's. Well, it is fundamentally different. ↗

— Paul Wolfowitz

#antithetical #better #better off #different #empire

Then you have this other phenomena of the paranormal romance. It's all the benefits of being a vampire without the sacrifices. By the gods, Meyer's vampires walk around sparkling in the daylight and some are vegetarians. But this phenomenon is also tied to a lot of our communal fears. Fear of aging. Fear of fading youth. Fear of loneliness. But whereas the classic motifs are more concerned with confronting and overcoming our fears, the fears of the paranormal romance genre become twisted fantasies of denial. The idea of staying young, attractive and powerful for eternity feeds into the modern self-absorbed ethos. ↗

— Julie Ann Dawson

#twilight-saga #vampires #age