#roman

Romances I ne'er read like those I have seen. ↗

— George Byron

#like #read #romances #seen #those

The stars twinkled above him brilliantly, representing all of the beautiful laws of the universe. ↗

— Keira D. Skye

#young-adult-fiction #young-adult-novels #young-adult-romance #beauty

And you… do you know what you are?” “Stupid?” “Beautiful,” he says, his face turning red. ↗

— Elizabeth Scott

#teenagers #young-adult #young-adult-romance #beauty

I often wish I'd got on better with your father,' he said. But he never liked anyone who--our friends,' said Clarissa; and could have bitten her tongue for thus reminding Peter that he had wanted to marry her. Of course I did, thought Peter; it almost broke my heart too, he thought; and was overcome with his own grief, which rose like a moon looked at from a terrace, ghastly beautiful with light from the sunken day. I was more unhappy than I've ever been since, he thought. And as if in truth he were sitting there on the terrace he edged a little towards Clarissa; put his hand out; raised it; let it fall. There above them it hung, that moon. She too seemed to be sitting with him on the terrace, in the moonlight. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#imagery #love #marriage #melancholy #moon

V-Day…if you need this one day in a year to show everyone else you truly care for “your loved one” I think it’s quite stupid. I hate this commercialism. It’s all artificial, and has nothing to do with real love. ↗

— Jess C. Scott

#books #cool #culture #desire #emotion

Unless you stop him. Perhaps next we meet." "You'll be just as annoying?" I guessed. He fixed my with those warm brown eyes. "Or perhaps you could bring me up to speed on those modern courtship rituals." I sat there stunned until he gave me a glimpse of a smile-just enough to let me know he was teasing. Then he disappeared. "Oh, very funny!" I yelled. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#romance #funny

When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You know that your name is safe in their mouth. ↗

— Jess C. Scott

#emotion #friendship #honesty #imagination #individuality

If you can capture a woman's imagination, then you will have her. But imagination is a strange creature. It needs time and distance to function properly. ↗

— Kathleen Tessaro

#romance #imagination

I wonder how many people don't get the one they want, but end up with the one they're supposed to be with. ↗

— Fannie Flagg

#deep #dissapointment #fate #heart #inspirational

My nightmares are usually about losing you. I'm okay once I realize you're here. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#romantic