#oman

There's a hardening of the culture. Reality TV has lowered the standards of entertainment. You're left wondering about the legitimacy of relationships. It's probably harder to entertain the same people with a more classic form of writing, and romantic comedies are a classic genre. ↗

— Nancy Meyers

#classic #comedies #culture #entertain #entertainment

Can you find beauty in darkness, Eve?" Danny asked. She nodded. "Yes." "Then look for it," he said softly. ↗

— Kele Moon

#romance #threesomes #beauty

When a woman like that whom I've seen so much, All of a sudden drops out of touch; Is always busy and never can, Spare you a moment, it means a man. ↗

— Alice Duer Miller

#busy #drops #i #like #man

Satire is people as they are; romanticism, people as they would like to be; realism, people as they seem with their insides left out. ↗

— Dawn Powell

#left #like #out #people #realism

Being brave enough to be alone frees you up to invite people into your life because you want them and not because you need them. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#being-single #brave #confidence #independence #loving-yourself

She doesn't want the boy causing the distinction between "love" and "in love ↗

— Rachel Cohn

#love

The gigantic Gaul derided the Roman soldiers as a band of pigmies. ↗

— John Lothrop Motley

#gaul #gigantic #roman #soldiers

I'm a liability to them - I'm a woman, I'm empowered, I'm an artist. I've had executives who can't come to my shows they're so scared of me. I've been a thorn in many people's sides just by existing. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#been #come #empowered #executives #existing

Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th. ↗

— Lance Morrow

#carried #catholic #catholic church #centuries #church

He heard the voice that had called to him in dreams, had saved him from the sands and from following his brother into the river. ↗

— V.S. Carnes

#romance #dreams