#roman

I was taken by the romanticism of being thought of as an adult and living in a world that was completely new to me. I fell in love with acting then. ↗

— Mariel Hemingway

#adult #being #completely #fell #i

The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love. ↗

— Douglas Horton

#filled #find #less #love #lust

The two stand in the fast-thinning throng of victims, but they speak as if they were alone. Eye to eye, voice to voice, hand to hand, heart to heart, these two children of the Universal Mother, else so wide apart and differing, have come together on the dark highway, to repair home together and to rest in her bosom. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#life #love #romance #death

If your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink. In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head. ↗

— Anonymous

#courage #enemy #lesson #life #love

And I'm suppose to sit by while you date boys and fall in love with someone else, get married...?" His voice tightened. "And meanwhile, I'll die a little bit more every day, watching. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#romance #teen-fantasy #dating

Nellie grinned. "I always wanted to go to Venice. It's supposed to be the romance capital of the world." "Sweet," put in Dan. "Too bad your date is an Egyptian Mau on a hunger strike." The au pair sighed. "Better than an eleven-year-old with a big mouth. ↗

— Gordon Korman

#dan-cahill #dates #nellie-gomez #romance #saladin

I wondered what happened when you offered yourself to someone, and they opened you, only to discover you were not the gift they expected and they had to smile and nod and say thank you all the same. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#julia-romano #love #unrequited #dating

Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you're wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn't love you anymore. ↗

— Lady Gaga

#romance #work #dreams

It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal. ↗

— E.M. Forster

#poets #romance #experience

If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#romance #unrequited-love #food