#roman

I'm an incurable romantic. The essence of romance is an unshakable conviction that next time will be different. ↗

— Glen Cook

#romantic #romantic

Okay, babe, I'm here.” The front door smashed opened, slamming against the wall—the man didn't know how to turn a knob? ↗

— Christy Reece

#romance #romantic-suspense #romantic

Whoa, wait a minute, Coletrane. Are you proposing to me?” “Well I would if you’d let me finish,” he grumbled. ↗

— Maya Banks

#romantic #romantic-suspense #romantic

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

If we perform the romantic repertoire we need more musicians. ↗

— Neville Marriner

#musicians #need #perform #repertoire #romantic

Most Beethoven symphonies require 80 or more instruments, and the late romantics even more. ↗

— Neville Marriner

#even #instruments #late #more #most

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

— Eric McCormack

#job #manager #most #romantic

I don't like the slasher stuff, myself, but I do like the psychological horror of Roman Polanski and that world. But, it's curious to me why people do like to be afraid. ↗

— Dylan McDermott

#curious #horror #i #i do #like