#roman

In fiction, I searched for my favorite authors, women I have trusted to reassure me than not all teenage guys are total ditwads, that the archetype of the noble cute hero who devotes himself to the girl he loves has not gone the way of the rotary phone. That all I had to do was be myself (smart, hardworking, funny) and be patient and kind and he and I would find each other. As Bea would say, this why they call it fiction. ↗

— Sarah Strohmeyer

#fiction #romance #funny

I heard this music coming out of the radio and it was 'Ain't Nobody's Business.' It got me. I thought, 'I can do this.' I decided just like that. No romantic story. ↗

— Jerry Leiber

#coming #decided #got #heard #i

Then suddenly the Roman liturgy disappeared as we knew it. ↗

— Richard Morris

#knew #liturgy #roman #suddenly #then

There is something so settled and stodgy about turning a great romance into next of kin on an emergency room form, and something so soothing and special, too. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#emergency #emergency room #form #great #into

A relationship to me is never about the romance. ↗

— Shia LaBeouf

#me #never #relationship #romance

I love being one half of a romantic couple. ↗

— Julianna Margulies

#being #couple #half #i #i love

There is a hidden agenda in the fragility of romance. ↗

— Alexander McQueen

#fragility #hidden #romance

I don't know if it's a romantic comedy but I'm in the beginning of the first of the season of "The West Wing." We shot it last year. I don't know. If anyone asks me to be in one, I'll jump on it. ↗

— Jason Isaacs

#asks #beginning #comedy #first #i

Romance, like the rabbit at the dog track, is the elusive, fake, and never attained reward which, for the benefit and amusement of our masters, keeps us running and thinking in safe circles. ↗

— Beverly Jones

#attained #benefit #circles #dog #elusive

I don't ever want to be a sentimentalist. I prefer to be a realist. I'm not a romantic really. ↗

— James Earl Jones

#i #prefer #realist #really #romantic