#roman

The United States is the only country left now, bar Romania, Bulgaria and Poland, that has this all-government system. ↗

— John Mica

#bulgaria #country #left #now #only

They say money talks, but all mine ever says is 'good-bye sucker. ↗

— Jill Shalvis

#funny #romance #funny

It seemed romantic but also tragic - people would be winning but then lose it all, or crash but fight on, break bones but get back on their bikes and try to finish. Just getting to the end was seen as an achievement in itself. ↗

— David Millar

#also #back #bikes #bones #break

When I was on my own in a hotel room in Romania, I had the imagination to keep myself occupied. ↗

— Rhona Mitra

#hotel #hotel room #i #imagination #keep

If you go back to the Greeks and Romans, they talk about all three - wine, food, and art - as a way of enhancing life. ↗

— Robert Mondavi

#art #back #enhancing #food #go

Writers of novels and romance in general bring a double loss to their readers; robbing them of their time and money; representing men, manners, and things, that never have been, or are likely to be. ↗

— Mary Wortley Montagu

#bring #double #general #likely #loss

The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear. ↗

— Charles de Montesquieu

#built #footwear #great #had #highways

Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames. ↗

— Thomas Moore

#affair #discover #down #else #emotions

It was you," I say softly. "It's always you I think about." The intensity in his gaze took my breath away. I could feel him. Every part of him. His soul was sewn to mine. His heated blood flowed through my veins. I'd thought that I had been close to my mother, and I was, but not like this. Chase and I barely touched- our hands, mouths, knees- but there was no part of me that was not his. ↗

— Kristen Simmons

#romantic

My greatest environments in which I can grow, or grow up, is in personal romantic relationships with a man. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#greatest #grow #grow up #i #i can