Quotes of: Romantic-love Keyword

Zorro also is part of the tradition, most closely associated with the possibly mythical Joaquin Murrieta and the historical Tiburcio Vasquez. As well as these local California legendary figures, Zorro is an American version of Robin Hood and similar ...

The Mark of Zorro

We've come a long way from the time when the crowning achievement in a woman's life was her youthful marriage. And many would agree that this represents progress for women. But when did the search for someone to marry become self-absorbed and patheti...

Why There Are No Good Men Left: The Romantic Plight of the New Single Woman

The books we love offer a sketch of a whole universe that we secretly inhabit, and in which we desire the other person to assume a role. One of the conditions of happy romantic compatibility is, if not to have read the same books, to have read at lea...

How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read

I had also pled, the whole year, to be wholly relieved of my romantic attachment; begged to stop loving so much. But I had finally been given to see that my desire was what made me human; that desire was my glory and my cross; that desire had given m...

Shirt of Flame: A Year with St. Therese of Lisieux

America is a young dumb country and it needs all kinds of help. America is a dumb puppy with big teeth that bite and hurt. And we take care of America. We hold America to our bosom; we feed America, we make love to America. There wouldn't be an Ameri...

Abiodun Oyewole

The lie [of compulsory female heterosexuality] is many-layered. In Western tradition, one layer—the romantic—asserts that women are inevitably, even if rashly and tragically, drawn to men; that even when that attraction is suicidal (e. g, Tristan...

Adrienne Rich

An egg would rendezvous with a sperm one not-so-romantic night in a petri-dish, and cellular division would begin under the watchful eye of some goggle-wearing geek.

Captive

Never invest so much in anyone romantically that you lose your head. The Buddha of casual sex, I remain detached at all costs.

Downward Dog

I've always really been a romantic at heart, and I have always wanted kids, and I think the idea of sharing your life with the right person is amazing, actually.

Monica Lewinsky

Summer flings always seemed amazing in movies, though that might be because the leading man did not ever call his romantic interest "dude.

Artificial Gods

The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.

Tom Wolfe

Who’s there?” “The scratcher of your itch,” he said. She opened the door a crack and stuck her nose out. “Was that supposed to be romantic?

Instant Attraction

A mist is rolling over the fields. Why is a summer mist romantic and autumn mist just sad?

I Capture the Castle

Are you imperfect, romantically irrational, ridiculously fearless, and utterly illogical? You're my ideal reader, friend, partner. I'm your fan.

iPooKee

There was something horribly depressing, she felt, about watching the weather report. That life could be planned like the perfect summer picnic drained it of spontaneity.

The Romantics

Are writers the torchbearers of humanity? It’s a romantic idea, but it’s complete rubbish. We writers are the crocodiles in the river.

The Rabbit Back Literature Society

...this miserable trick the romantic plays upon himself: of setting just beyond his reach the very thing he prizes.

The Moviegoer

I’m a romantic. I enjoy candle-lit breakfasts, and long walks in wheelchairs.

The Merits of Marthaism, and How Being Named Susan Can Benefit You

The flame of urgent coupling burned hottest against the woman, no matter how romantic and high and heartsick the anguish of the man might be pitched in retrospect.

Nightwoods

The essential truth of life, he was coming to realize, wasn't romantic an took only two words to label: Shit. Happens.

Lover Mine

Common sense, common care, common prudence, were all sunk in Mrs. Dashwood's romantic delicacy.

Sense and Sensibility