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• WORTH IT and perfect are different things. No one’s perfect, yet in romance, everyone becomes WORTH IT. And that’s the trick.

  Maureen Johnson

  Perfect, Different, Tricks

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• When we first met, I didn't want to get involved with anyone. I didn't have the time or energy, and I wasn't sure that I was ready for it. But you were so good to me, and I got swept up in that. And little by little, I found myself falling in love with you.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Love, Romantic, Time

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• She believes in love and romance. She believes her life is one day going to be transformed into something wonderful and exciting. She has hopes and fears and worries, just like anyone. Sometimes she feels frightened. Sometimes she feels unloved. Sometimes she feels she will never gain approval from those people who are most important to her. But she’s brave and good-hearted and faces her life head-on.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Believe, People, Worry

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• Romance is the sweetening of the soul With fragrance offered by the stricken heart.

  Wole Soyinka

  Heart, Soul, Fragrance

  Wole Soyinka (1973). “Collected Plays”, p.10, London ; New York : Oxford University Press

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• It was finally becoming clear to her that love wasn't about finding someone perfect to marry. Love was about seeing through to the truth of a person, and accepting all their shades of light and dark. Love was an ability.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Dark, Light, Perfect

  Lisa Kleypas (2010). “Tempt Me At Twilight: Number 3 in series”, p.201, Hachette UK

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• In those days, I still thoroughly enjoyed the romance I called "by myself"; I didn't know yet how it gets lonely, picks up a sharp edge later on that ruins a day now and then-- ruins more than that, if you're not careful.

  Elizabeth Kostova

  Lonely, Ruins, Now And Then

  Elizabeth Kostova (2010). “The Swan Thieves”, p.302, Hachette UK

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• I think that love is more like a light that you carry. At first childish happiness keeps it lighted and after that romance. Then motherhood lights it and then duty . . . and maybe after that sorrow. You wouldn't think that sorrow could be a light, would you, dearie? But it can. And then after that, service lights it. Yes. . . . I think that is what love is to a woman . . . a lantern in her hand.

  Bess Streeter Aldrich

  Motherhood, Love Is, Thinking

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• Ethan couldn’t possibly understand it, what Cameron and I meant to each other and how different it was from anything like a romance or a crush.

  Sara Zarr

  Crush, Different, Cameron

  Sara Zarr (2008). “Sweethearts”, p.58, Hachette UK

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• It is sometimes said that scientists are unromantic, that their passion to figure out robs the world of beauty and mystery. But is it not stirring to understand how the world actually works — that white light is made of colors, that color is the way we perceive the wavelengths of light, that transparent air reflects light, that in so doing it discriminates among the waves, and that the sky is blue for the same reason that the sunset is red? It does no harm to the romance of the sunset to know a little bit about it.

  Carl Sagan

  Passion, Sunset, Science

  Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.154, Ballantine Books

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• I had two cups of coffee, put Eric's jeans in the washer, read a romance for awhile, and studied my brand-new Word of the Day calendar, a Christmas gift from Arlene. My first word of the New Year was 'exsanguinate.' This was probably not a good omen.

  Charlaine Harris

  New Year, Coffee, Years

  Charlaine Harris (2005). “Dead to the World”, p.29, Penguin

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• Caught in a bad romance. Whoaaa-oh-ooooh!" Nellie wailed along to the XM radio blaring from the enormous speakers. "Can I uncover my ears now?" Dan called from the back, where he was reclined across the leather seat. "Has Nellie stopped her Lady Gag Me impression?

  Rick Riordan

  Ears, Radio, Leather

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• We dress our garden, eat our dinners, discuss the household with our wives, and these things make no impression, are forgotten next week; but in the solitude to which every man is always returning, he has a sanity and revelations, which in his passage into new worlds he will carry with him. Never mind the ridicule, never mind the defeat: up again, old heart! — it seems to say, — there is victory yet for all justice; and the true romance which the world exists to realize, will be the transformation of genius into practical power.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Heart, Men, Garden

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.205

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• Star-crossed lovers desperate to get home together. Two hearts beating as one. Romance.

  Suzanne Collins

  Stars, Home, Heart

  Suzanne Collins (2008). “The Hunger Games”, p.261, Scholastic Inc.

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• I will not deny that my heart has long occupied itself with the most tender feelings for another. So strong were these impulses that I indulged myself by thinking that if I could not have him whom I admired whom I will admit it now when I would not before I loved then I would never want another. However those are sentiments best saved for one of Lily's romances. The heart is a far more practical thing and in its life is happily capable of more than a single attachment.

  Galen Beckett

  Strong, Heart, Thinking

  Galen Beckett (2008). “The Magicians and Mrs. Quent”, p.310, Bantam

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• And third, I was unconditionally and irrevocably in love with him.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Twilight, Thirds, Twilight Movie

  "Twilight". www.imdb.com. November 17, 2008.

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• I did a research assignment on life in the Middle Ages only last year. I found the era fascinating, all that chivalry and court romance. But I never pictured anything as poor as this village. This is the pits. There's no romance here, definitely no chivary. And it stinks--of sweat and smoke and sewage.

  Marianne Curley

  Years, Sweat, Age

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• Just the other day I said to Fang, "Don't you think we've got a storybook romance?" and he said, "Yes, and every page is ripped.

  Phyllis Diller

  Thinking, Pages, Said

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• All romances end at marriage.

  Thomas Hardy

  Ends

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “Far From the Madding Crowd (Diversion Classics)”, p.321, Diversion Books

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• Life isn't a romance novel. The truth is, the reason romance novels sell so well ---- the reason why everyone loves them ---- is because no one's life is actually like that. Everyone WANTS their life to be like that.

  Meg Cabot

  Want, Reason Why, Life Is

  Meg Cabot (2016). “Crowning Glory”, p.173, Pan Macmillan

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• Mia and I had been together for more than two years, and yes, it was a high school romance, but it was still the kind of romance where I thought we were trying to find a way to make it forever, the kind that, had we met five years later and had she not been some cello prodigy and had I not been in a band on the rise - or had our lives not been ripped apart by all this -I was pretty sure it would've been.

  Gayle Forman

  School, Years, Two

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• No, Mary had no illusions about romance. Falling in love was a pretty name for it, that was all.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Falling In Love, Names, Illusion

  Daphne du Maurier (1936). “JAMAICA INN”

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• Contemporary fantasists all bow politely to Lord Tennyson and Papa Tolkien, then step around them to go back to the original texts for inspiration--and there are a lot of those texts. We have King Arthur and his gang in English; we've got Siegfried and Brunhild in German; Charlemagne and Roland in French; El Cid in Spanish; Sigurd the Volsung in Icelandic; and assorted 'myghtiest Knights on lyfe' in a half-dozen other cultures. Without shame, we pillage medieval romance for all we're worth.

  David Eddings

  Kings, Inspiration, Knights

  David Eddings, Leigh Eddings (2007). “The Rivan Codex: Ancient Texts of THE BELGARIAD and THE MALLOREON”, p.6, Del Rey

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• Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love on earth: the Blessed Sacrament … There you will find romance, glory, honour, fidelity, and the true way of all your loves upon earth.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Faith, Blessed, Darkness

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2014). “The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien”, p.53, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You say one more thing that sounds like it's ripped from the pages of a really bad gothic romance and I'm out of here, are we clear?" - Valkyrie Cain

  Derek Landy

  Sound, Cain, Pages

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• His gaze slid over me like a veil of fire. He could ignite my deepest desires with a single glance. I decided right then and there no more reading romance novels by candelight.

  Darynda Jones

  Reading, Fire, Desire

  Darynda Jones (2011). “Second Grave on the Left”, p.40, Macmillan

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