#roman

I was married when I was 17. I knew nothing. I was full of romance. ↗

— Gloria Swanson

#full #i #knew #married #nothing

I don't want to be Mr. Romantic Leading Man. I don't want to be the Dance Dude. I don't want to be the Action Guy. If I had to do any one of those all my life, it'd drive me crazy. ↗

— Patrick Swayze

#any #crazy #dance #drive #dude

And third, I was unconditionally and irrevocably in love with him ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#love

Beth: "What are you, the Energizer Bunny? ↗

— Lucy Monroe

#lucy-monroe #romance #humor

I love Elmore Leonard. To me, True Romance is basically like an Elmore Leonard movie. ↗

— Quentin Tarantino

#i #i love #leonard #like #love

But romantic vision can also lead one away from certain very hard, ugly truths about life that are important to know. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#also #away #certain #hard #important

We have a good arrangement. Roman lies to me and I pretend to believe him. ↗

— Sharon Tate

#believe #good #him #i #lies

To kiss then was the most natural thing in the world. To explore, to taste, to find out. Katie did find out. When they parted from each other, the world was that much more of a beautiful thing. ↗

— Frederick Anderson

#romance #suspense #beauty

There is grand romance in The Lord of the Rings. It's an important part of epic literature. ↗

— Kevin J. Anderson

#grand #important #literature #lord #lord of the rings

I've always wondered why there isn't a great French novel about the German occupation. The nouveau roman authors weren't interested in telling that sort of thing. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#always #authors #french #german #great