The telephone which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations has a romance of its own.
We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.
French is the language that turns dirt into romance.
Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they've been hurt they're sensitive and their cynicism is a shell that's protecting this tiny dear part in them that's still alive.
A tramp a gentleman a poet a dreamer a lonely fellow always hopeful of romance and adventure.
The word 'romance ' according to the dictionary means excitement adventure and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime.
Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
I love romantic comedies. I have a deep respect for them. I think they're really difficult to write and write well.
We may be sure that out of the ruins of our capitalist civilization a new religion will emerge just as Christianity emerged from the ruins of the Roman civilization.
I am utterly struck how 300 years after his execution Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire.
I'm a hopeless romantic and very much the person in a relationship to go: If things are going well I'll buy the flowers remember the dates of things plan fun nights out.
I feel like you don't know if someone's equipped for a romantic relationship until they're out of their twenties.
A relationship to me is never about the romance.
I lived by the candlelight for two years because I couldn't afford power. It was nice and romantic at the time but if you can't afford power you're pretty broke. You endure it.
In my books and in romance as a genre there is a positive uplifting feeling that leaves the reader with a sense of encouragement and hope for a brighter future - or a brighter present.
My wife was the first romantic partner who understood both American and native parts of me - not so much the positive stuff but the damage.
We don't tend to write about disease in fiction - not just teen novels but all American novels - because it doesn't fit in with our idea of the heroic romantic epic. There is room only for sacrifice heroism war politics and family struggle.