You know I’m getting a little tired of waiting for you to catch on.
This first glance of a soul which does not yet know itself is like dawn in the heavens; it is the awakening of something radiant and unknown.
There is the same difference in a person before and after he is in love, as there is in an unlighted lamp and one that is burning.
I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more on prose.
If the best of one’s feelings means nothing to the person most concerned in those feelings, what reality is left us?
The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.
As soon as histories are properly told there is no more need of romances.
Speculation is the romance of trade, and casts contempt upon on all its sober realities. It renders the stock-jobber a magician, and the exchange a region of enchantment.
In any relationship in which two people become one, the end result is two half people.
How can the moribund old man reason back to himself the romance, the mystery, the imminence of great things with which our old earth tingled for him in the days when he was young and well?
Husbands and wives, first, be faithful to each other. Second, keep the romance going all of your life by courting each other every day.
It’s nice that there are movies and songs about romance – it’s what motivates us as human beings. I’m all for being brainwashed by rom-coms.
I want a man who’s kind and understanding. Is that too much to ask of a millionaire?
Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets.
Romance is finding your fantasy in people who don’t have it.
You are my glue. Without you, I’d be nothing but broken pieces.
It’s just that romance, with its dips and turns and glooms and highs, its swoops and swoons and blues, is a natural metaphor for music itself.
I have tried to let you go and I cannot. I cannot stop thinking of you. I cannot stop dreaming about you.
If she were gone I would be nothing. You should think better of yourself than to settle for that.
My advice is to write about what you are interested in. If you read science fiction and fantasy, then write in that genre. If you read romance novels, then try writing one.