Romance Quotes - Page 30

Young girls passed me with romance still in their eyes, and others, a little older, with the romance dead.

Lies, fables and romances must needs be probable, but not the truth and foundation of our faith.

The fragrance that suits me best is Romance by Ralph Lauren. It seems to blend into my chemistry, so it is nice and subtle. I don't like to be doused in scent. This one is feminine, fresh and a bit musky.

I've always read suspense, so raising the stakes to life and death situations in my romance plots seemed natural.

Katie Lane is a wonderful new voice in Western romance fiction.

Movies are great, but the real romance happens right here somewhere as real close-up. Either you're the one erasing or you're the one being erased, so... It's not a pleasant feeling!

Abstinence for me is about romance. It has nothing to do with my relationship with God. It's definitely a bonus in that department, but it's nothing spiritual. It's about giving something special to that person you're going to spend the rest of your life with.

I wanted to make sure that this be the first scientific and technology revolution in history in which the public thoroughly discussed all the potential benefits and all the potential harms, in advance of the technology coming online and running its course.

... romance is unsatisfactory as a religion. It is no use looking for the infinite in the eyes of another.

I'm not real good at romance.

Mary Jo Putney is a gifted writer with an intuitive understanding of what makes romances work. I loved Silk and Shadows, couldn't put it down, and don't think readers will, either.

Readers understand that the books celebrate female power. In the romance novel, the woman always wins. With courage, intelligence and gentleness she brings the most dangerous creature on the earth, the human male, to his knees.

50% of Americas population spends less than 10 dollars a month on romance. You know what we call these people? Men!

Every book should have a romance.

I love the romance of Paris. I love Angelina [tearoom and pastry shop]. I always get a Mont-blanc [pastry] there.

Of course I planned to write the Great American Novel; that lasted about a week, at which point I decided I had nothing to say that could possibly qualify. So I wrote a romance instead.

By about the sixth romance I knew I wasn't in exactly the right place. I liked writing action. And I wanted to write a book with a little more edge than I was allowed in romance.

Nice dress. Take it off.

I have noticed before that there is a category of acquaintanceship that is not friendship or business or romance, but speculation, fascination.

In order to have a real life of any romance, there has to be a level of fantasy.

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.

Romeo and Juliet *died*. I always liked that in a teen romance story.

I don't get a whole lot out of the romance thing, but I realize girls do. So I'll go out of my way to make them feel romanced.

The thing we call romance is a diversion from something truer, which is life.

Someone who knew me well once accused me of being unromantic. And that's probably true: I don't trust romance.