Barriers tend to intensify romance. It’s called the ‘Romeo and Juliet effect.’ I call it ‘frustration attraction.’ – Helen Fisher
The Odyssey is, indeed, one of the greatest of all stories, it is the original romance of the West; but the Iliad, though a magnificent poem, is not much of a story. – George Saintsbury
Liberals and conservatives are looking for entirely different things. Their attitudes toward romance and how they court are really dramatically different. There’s almost no overlap. – Helen Fisher
I don’t read thrillers, romance or mystery, and I don’t read self-help books because I don’t believe in shortcuts and loopholes. – Isabel Allende
When one is in love one begins by deceiving oneself. And one ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance. – Oscar Wilde A Woman of No Importance, Lord Illingworth, Act 3.
The word ‘romance,’ according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime. – Billy Graham
When I was little, my grandma used to get romance novels, and she would get hundreds of these, and she’d read a dozen a month. – Chuck Palahniuk
I would like Albert Brooks to have received the Oscars for best actor, best director and best screenplay for ‘Modern Romance.’ I love that movie. – Andy Kindler
There is something so settled and stodgy about turning a great romance into next of kin on an emergency room form, and something so soothing and special, too. – Anna Quindlen
The thing is, I am a loving person. I am super sappy when it comes to romance. But I’m not the Antonio Banderas, swashbuckling, Pierce Brosnan, smooth-talking type. – Dev Patel
I wasn’t captivated by the romance of Paris or London. I love visiting, but I’d rather be in L.A. – Edward Ruscha
Within the sphere of steampunk, there seems to be a rapidly growing subsphere of gadgetless ‘neo-Victorian’ novels, most of which attempt to recapture the romance of the era without all the sociopolitical ugliness. – N. K. Jemisin
I decided to write category romance as I’d recently discovered them, and enjoyed them. – Nora Roberts
I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out if me with steel pipes. – Patton Oswalt
