#roman

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

I guess I like things that take time and attention. More worthwhile that way. ↗

— Huntley Fitzpatrick

#humour #romance #young-adult #young-adult-romance #funny

He’d mesmerized her, held her soul captive. And she couldn’t move. “Unless you want more than a dream,” he said. She did. “Will you stay?” he whispered. “Or will you go?” She stayed. Heaven help her, she stayed. And Michael showed her just how romantic a library could be. ↗

— Julia Quinn

#dreams

There are twin Gates of Sleep. One, they say, is called the Gate of Horn and it offers easy passage to all true shades. The other glistens with ivory, radiant, flawless, but through it the dead send false dreams up toward the sky. And here Anchises, his vision told in full, escorts his son and Sibyl both and shows them out now through the Ivory Gate. ↗

— Virgil

#epic #roman #dreams

When in Rome, live as the Romans do; when elsewhere, live as they live elsewhere. ↗

— Saint Ambrose

#live #romans #rome

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