You always get more respect when you don't have a happy ending.
I can't imagine a romance novel published today where the hero rapes the heroine and she falls in love with him.
I keep waiting for the day in which everyone who loves Downton Abbey will realize they were actually watching a historical romance novel.
Colin decided then and there that the female mind was a strange and incomprehensible organ - one which no man should even attempt to understand. There wasn't a woman alive who could go from point A to B without stopping at C, D, X, and 12 along the way.
