#romance

On romance books: We might assume then that men, major consumers of thrillers, westerns, and detective fiction, enjoy being beaten up, tortured, shot, stabbed dragged by galloping horses, and thrown out of moving vehicles. ↗

— Daphne Clair

#romance #love

For so long music has been my heart, but now it's you...you're my heart. ↗

— Cassandra Giovanni

#love-story #musician #romance #love

The purchases of courteous Dr. Fell over his months in Florence would not have totaled more than one hundred lire, but the fragrances and essences were chosen and combined with a sensibility startling and gratifying to these scent merchants, who live by the nose. It was to preserve this pleasure that Dr. Lecter had not altered his own nose with rhinoplasty other than external collagen injections. For him the air was painted with scents as distinct and vivid as colors, and he could layer and feather them as though painting wet-on-wet. Here there was nothing of jail. Here the air was music. Here were pale tears of frankincense awaiting extraction, yellow bergamot, sandalwood, cinnamon and mimosa in concert, over the sustaining ground notes of genuine ambergris, civet, castor from the beaver, and essence of the musk deer. Dr. Lecter sometimes entertained the illusion that he could smell with his hands, his arms and cheeks, that odor suffused him. That he could smell with his face and his heart. ↗

— Thomas Harris Hannibal

#suspence-romance #thriller #music

She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning. ↗

— Jane Austen

#nature

I comfort myself with the reflection that your wife will possibly be able to curb your desire--I admit, a natural one for the most part--to exterminate your fellows. ↗

— Georgette Heyer

#nature

I found something! Courage--just that; courage as a rule of life and something to cling to always. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#courage-in-love #courageous #fitzgerald #gatsby #inspirational

Yes, I have a romantic nature; it is a character flaw which should be viewed with pity, not derision. ↗

— Andrew Levkoff

#romantic #nature

Selingkuh: meninggalkan yang tak sempurna untuk yang lebih tak sempurna. ↗

— Christian Simamora

#relationship-advice #romance #romance-novels #sad-but-true #selingkuh

Ridiculous! I couldn’t marry, mate, or whatever it entailed with Zane. He was a werewolf. With my assorted background I was all for interracial relationships. Interspecies? — The jury was still out on that possibility. - Chloe Carpenter/I Kissed a Dog ↗

— Carol Van Atta

#pnr #vampires #werewolf #werewolf-paranormal-romance #werewolves

Only in hindsight can we see the moments where our lives skewed off-course, where we traveled down the wrong path, where the worst lies we told were the ones we told ourselves. ↗

— Emma Shane

#life-lessons #relationships #romance #relationship