"The graceful minuet-dance of fancy must give place to the toilsome, thorny pilgrimage of understanding. On the transition from the age of romance to that of science."
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"I tried writing adult romances, but it just didn't fit my voice."
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"I write edgy, sexy teen romances, and that's what I'll continue to do."
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"Romance novels are my favorite books to read. I write young adult romances, and am so happy to be promoting this wonderful genre."
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"Fine, large, meaningless, general terms like romance and business can always be related. They take the place of thinking, and are highly useful to optimists and lecturers."
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"Romance takes place when you first fall in love. It stirs all emotions and you can manipulate and be manipulated."
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"He drove me home in the van, complaining, 'Women only like me for my mind'."
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"I'm drawn to bad romances."
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"Does not the history of the world show that there would have been no romance in life if there had been no risks?"
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"...what is romance, but a mutual pact of delusion? When the pact ends , there's nothing left."
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"The things one feels absolutely certain about are never true. That is the fatality of faith, and the lesson of romance."
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"I had buried my romance in a bed of asphodel."
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"Lo! with a little rod I did but touch the honey of romance — And must I lose a soul's inheritance?"
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"Whether they yield or refuse, it delights women to have been asked."
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"It is hard to laugh at the need for beauty and romance, no matter how tasteless, even horrible, the results of that need are. But it is easy to sigh. Few things are sadder than the truly monstrous."
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"It's a given that we exist in a world where we have to live in continuity every day; no one is immune to that, in life or romance novels. By the same token, it's not something I find terribly important."
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"War can so easily be gilt with romance and heroism and solemn national duty and patriotism and the like by persons whose superficial literary and oratorical talent covers an abyss of Godforsaken folly."
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"This is the greatest and most fraught romance of modern society, the marriage between the IT staff and those who depend on them."
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"To be born into this earth is to be born into uncongenial surroundings, hence to be born into a romance."
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"I still hold. . .that the suburbs ought to be either glorified by romance and religion or else destroyed by fire from heaven, or even by firebrands from the earth."
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