#roman

My father's father came from Russia; my mother came from Romania. ↗

— Herbie Mann

#father #mother #romania #russia

Reduced to a miserable mass level, the level of a Hitler, German Romanticism broke out into hysterical barbarism. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#broke #german #hitler #hysterical #into

The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality. ↗

— Marya Mannes

#curse #diminishes #dreams #end #expectation

My most romantic job: I was a manager at Baskin-Robbins. ↗

— Eric McCormack

#job #manager #most #romantic

She tucked a strand of hair behind her ear, and bit her bottom lip. I found it to be such an erotic gesture that it aroused me. My eyes began making love to her in the dark. Unseen hands passed over her curves, quietly descending...trembling at her great beauty. I didn't even know her, but I wanted her. My gaze danced over her every curve, from her nose and lips, to her breasts and hips, surreptitiously. She had no idea of my thoughts. Shadow sex. ↗

— Rae Hachton

#love #monsters #monsters-in-the-dark #romance #sex

I didn't tell you how beautiful he is so you could fall in love with him. I told you so you could appreciate that I'm in love with him. ↗

— Marianne Maughan

#humor #love #romance #beauty

As I looked and looked, the living face became visible in the dead, the young in the old. This is what must happen to old married couples, I thought: the young man is preserved in the old one for her, the beauty and grace of the young woman stay fresh in the old one for him. ↗

— Bernhard Schlink

#beauty

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

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