#roman

People can get obsessed with romance, they can get obsessed with political paranoia, they can get obsessed with horror. It's isn't the fault of the subject matter that creates the obsession, I don't think. ↗

— Adam Arkin

#fault #get #horror #i #matter

If a thousand painters worked for a thousand years, they could not create a work of art as beautiful as you ↗

— Shannon Dermott

#paranormal-romance #art

Doesn't it scare you sometimes how time flies and nothing changes? ↗

— Ika Natassa

#romance #change

I Googled it sir ↗

— Red Phoenix

#art

I do so love the art of severing boundaries ↗

— Poppet

#vampire-romance #art

I thought that I needed a church and hundreds of guests and music that actually sounded like music, but I was wrong. What I needed was a drunken priest, irreverent guests, and a companion who learned to play piano from a goat." "Then you got exactly what you needed." "I suppose so. But then again, all I really needed was you. ↗

— Julia Quinn

#music

An editorial in the Los Angeles Times [1923] wistfully asked, 'Will eating chestnuts by crackling log fires become one of the lost arts preserved by a devoted people only in poetry and romance? ↗

— Susan Freinkel

#history #poetry #romance #art

I leaned my face into his palm and he looked at me like it was the first time he ever saw me. I felt my heart burst. I wanted him to kiss me. I didn’t care about what he owned, or what issues he had. I knew if we kissed, it would change us both. Even worse, I wanted to say I loved him. ↗

— Mercy Cortez

#love #romance #change

I know there is a difference in our ages, but who cares? My heart has no idea how old your heart is. ↗

— Evelyn R. Baldwin

#age

They were opposite in so many ways, but it was the kind of difference that was balancing-her softness with his steel, his instinct and her logic. He was teaching her by example to have courage in the face of fear, and she badly wanted to help him give voice to his grief and understand it was all right to feel pain. ↗

— Melissa Cutler

#contemporary #romance #suspense #courage