I now deserve love. romance, and joy – and all the good that Life has to offer me.
Does not the history of the world show that there would have been no romance in life if there had been no risks?
We arrogantly assume that the nervous system doesn’t really need to be coaxed into romance. That romance comes from some other place.
God, so atrocious in the Old Testament, so attractive in the New – the Jekyl and Hyde of sacred romance.
Jealousy in romance is like salt in food. A little can enhance the savor, but too much can spoil the pleasure and, under certain circumstances, can be life-threatening.
It’s very hard for adults to maintain respect and romance so that a love affair can be sustained over years.
I fell for her like a suicide from a bridge.
It’s a given that we exist in a world where we have to live in continuity every day; no one is immune to that, in life or romance novels. By the same token, it’s not something I find terribly important.
Love is a wonderful thing. It makes life worthwhile. I love being in love.
As the warm air blew in the car, simple snapshots of the life they’d lived together surfaced in his mind; but as always, those images led inexorably to their final day together.
My novels are in the literature section as opposed to the romance section of bookstores because they’re not romance novels. If I tried to have them published as romances, they’d be rejected. I write dramatic fiction; a further sub-genre would classify them as love stories.
I have always had an interest in how cultural rituals play into something as unpredictable as romance.
Believe me, I’m no romantic, and while I’ve heard all about love at first sight, I’ve never believed in it, and I still don’t. But even so, there was something there, something recognizably real, and I couldn’t look away.
I would be rejected if I submitted any of my novels as romance novels.
I think that men know how to romance a woman and most do it well, at least for a time, otherwise women wouldn’t marry them. The problem is that most of them begin to rest on their laurels.
It all comes down to who is by your side and who is willing to stand up for love even when it seems impossible.
I don’t write romance novels.
Marriage is about becoming a team. You’re going to spend the rest of your life learning about each other, and every now and then, things blow up. But the beauty of marriage is that if you picked the right person and you both love each other, you’ll always figure out a way to get through it.
If you look for me, I’m in the fiction section. Romance has its own section.
I gave you the best of me.