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• The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.

  Virginia Woolf

  Romantic, Cutting, Telephones

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “The Common Reader”, p.187, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more on prose.

  Virginia Woolf

  Glowing, Together, World

  Virginia Woolf (1990). “A moment's liberty: the shorter diary”, Vintage

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• Jealousy can even be good for love. One partner may feel secretly flattered when the other is mildly jealous. And catching someone flirting with your beloved can spark the kind of lust and romance that reignites a relationship.

  Helen Fisher

  Jealous, Flirting, Lust

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• Barriers tend to intensify romance. It's called the 'Romeo and Juliet effect.' I call it 'frustration attraction.'

  Helen Fisher

  Frustration, Juliet, Barriers

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• I think romantic love evolved to enable you to focus your mating energy on just one individual at a time, thereby conserving mating time and energy.

  Helen Fisher

  Happiness, Romantic Love, Thinking

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• Office romances are few, short, and not usually destructive.

  Helen Fisher

  Office, Destructive

  "Single Ladies, Don't Despair: Men Do Want to Commit" by Olivia Katrandjian, abcnews.go.com. February 3, 2011.

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• 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

  Attitude, Different, Court

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• There's a lot of talk about the positive aspects of love. We as a society downplay the danger, the anxiety, and the disappointment. We romanticize romance.

  Helen Fisher

  Disappointment, Anxiety, Danger

  "Do I Love My Wife? An Investigative Report" by A.J. Jacobs, www.esquire.com. May 18, 2009.

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• ...and Jo laid the rustling sheets together with a careful hand, as one might shut the covers of a lovely romance, which holds the reader fast till the end comes, and he finds himself alone in the work-a-day world again.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Hands, Lovely, Together

  Louisa May Alcott (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Louisa May Alcott (Illustrated)”, p.602, Delphi Classics

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• The culture of women in the church today is crippled by some very pervasive lies. "To be spiritual is to be busy. To be spiritual is to be disciplined. To be spiritual is to be dutiful." No, to be spiritual is to be in Romance with God. The desire to be romanced lies deep in the heart of every women. It is for such that you were made. Are you ARE romanced, and ever will be.

  John Eldredge

  Spiritual, Lying, Heart

  John Eldredge, Stasi Eldredge (2010). “Captivating: Unveiling the Mystery of a Woman's Soul”, p.129, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I knew you would do me good in some way, at some time--I saw it in your eyes when I first beheld you.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Eye, Way, Saws

  Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.193, Simon and Schuster

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• He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Inspirational, Romantic, Long

  "Anna Karenina". Novel by Leo Tolstoy. Part 1, Chapter 9, 1878.

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• They cannot scare me with their empty spaces Between stars—on stars where no human race is. I have it in me so much nearer home To scare myself with my own desert places.

  Robert Frost

  Romantic, Stars, Home

  Further Range (1936) "Desert Places"

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• I believe it was Shakespeare, or possibly Howard Cosell, who first observed that marriage is very much like a birthday candle, in that 'the flames of passion burn brightest when the wick of intimacy is first ignited by the disposable butane lighter of physical attraction, but sooner or later the heat of familiarity causes the wax of boredom to drip all over the vanilla frosting of novelty and the shredded coconut of romance.' I could not have phrased it better myself.

  Dave Barry

  Believe, Passion, Flames

  Dave Barry (1994). “The World According to Dave Barry”, Outlet

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• Patience is always rewarded and romance is always round the corner!

  Ayn Rand

  Inspirational, Corners, Rounds

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• Like some wines our love could neither mature nor travel.

  Graham Greene

  Break Up, Breakup, Wine

  GRAHAM GREENE (1966). “THE COMEDIANS”

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• There have been occasions in my later life (I suppose as in most lives) when I have felt for a time as if a thick curtain had fallen on all its interest and romance, to shut me out from anything save dull endurance any more. Never has that curtain dropped so heavy and blank, as when my way in life lay stretched out straight before me through the newly-entered road of apprenticeship to Joe.

  Charles Dickens

  Way In Life, Expectations, Endurance

  Charles Dickens (2010). “A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations (Oprah's Book Club): Two Novels”, p.411, Penguin

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• But there are people who take salt with their coffee. They say it gives a tang, a savour, which is peculiar and fascinating. In the same way there are certain places, surrounded by a halo of romance, to which the inevitable disillusionment you experience on seeing them gives a singular spice. You had expected something wholly beautiful and you get an impression which is infinitely more complicated than any that beauty can give you. It is the weakness in the character of a great man which may make him less admirable but certainly more interesting. Nothing had prepared me for Honolulu.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Beautiful, Coffee, Character

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• The tune was sad, as the best of Ireland was, melancholy and lovely as a lover's tears.

  Nora Roberts

  Lovely, Tears, Tunes

  Nora Roberts (2011). “Nora Roberts' The Irish Born Trilogy”, p.19, Penguin

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• Romance takes place in the middle distance. Romance is looking in at yourself through a window clouded with dew. Romance means leaving things out: where life grunts and shuffles, romance only sighs.

  Margaret Atwood

  Love, Distance, Mean

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• We all know interspecies romance is weird.

  Tim Burton

  Biology, Weirdness, Genetics

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• Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one’s life with pomp and blare, like a gay knight riding down; perhaps it crept to one’s side like an old friend through quiet ways; perhaps it revealed itself in seeming prose, until some sudden shaft of illumination flung athwart its pages betrayed the rhythm and the music, perhaps . . . perhaps . . . love unfolded naturally out of a beautiful friendship, as a golden-hearted rose slipping from its green sheath.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Love, Beautiful, Gay

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “CHRISTMAS & NEW YEAR™S TALES (Holiday Classics Series): Including Anne Shirley Series”, p.512, e-artnow

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• I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.

  John Steinbeck

  War, Reality, Stronger

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.77, Penguin

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• I will tell you what Jeanne was like. She was like a piano in a country where everyone has had their hands cut off.

  Angela Carter

  Country, Cutting, Hands

  Angela Carter (1985). “Black Venus”, Random House (UK)

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• Love is the only rational act.

  Mitch Albom

  Happiness, Optimistic, Love Is

  Mitch Albom (2007). “Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson”, p.52, Broadway Books

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