#romantic

I've often dreamed about going back to Nigeria, but that's a very romantic notion. It's a hideous country to go to in reality. ↗

— Hugo Weaving

#back #country #dreamed #go #going

I don't think I'll ever escape the fact that I don't belong anywhere in particular. I've often dreamed about going back to Nigeria, but that's a very romantic notion. It's a hideous country to go to in reality. ↗

— Hugo Weaving

#anywhere #back #belong #country #dreamed

When you give your heart away, you usually get it back in pieces, fragments. And often, a great deal of time passes before you realize that every piece wasn’t returned to you—and probably never will be. You crave nothing more than to get those small—but vital—fragments back; to return to the unbroken, undamaged version of yourself. But what's been broken cannot be unbroken, and so all you can do is learn to live with the void of the missing pieces, to somehow find beauty in the wreckage. And so I did. Sophie Lenon ↗

— Krystal McLean

#broken-heart #dark #hope #lovers #romance

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#calls #deceiving #others #romance #world

Therapy was the biggest romance of my life. ↗

— Dar Williams

#biggest #life #my life #romance #therapy

If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance. ↗

— Bern Williams

#boast #could #invented #june #night

It's the contemporary woman that movies don't know what to do with, other than bathe her in a bridal glow in romantic comedies where both the romance and the comedy are artificial sweeteners. ↗

— James Wolcott

#bathe #both #bridal #comedies #comedy

The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened. ↗

— Tom Wolfe

#anything #art #before #completed #distributed

And I think maybe all women, if they just had a chance, would be romantic and believe in love and not sex. And men believe in sex and not love. ↗

— Beatrice Wood

#chance #had #i #i think #just

The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#conversations #cuts #most #observations #own