#romantic

I'd like to be played as a child by Natalie Wood. I'd have some romantic scenes as Audrey Hepburn and have gritty black-and-white scenes as Patricia Neal. ↗

— Gloria Steinem

#audrey hepburn #black-and-white #child #gritty #hepburn

Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory. ↗

— George William Curtis

#always #conversation #escapes #ghost #interview

The most aggressive artists often hide their romantic side. ↗

— Don Johnson

#artists #hide #most #often #romantic

We travellers are in very hard circumstances. If we say nothing but what has been said before us, we are dull and have observed nothing. If we tell anything new, we are laughed at as fabulous and romantic. ↗

— Mary Wortley Montagu

#been #before #circumstances #dull #fabulous

Hey,” Shayne said through the door. “You going to stay in there all night, because we’re getting tired of trying to eavesdrop from out here. Can’t hear a damn thing. ↗

— Jill Shalvis

#humour #romance #romantic-suspense #funny

It is the mythical, the romantic seduction of the pseudoknowledge, i.e. the folkore - both popular and scientific - that propagates quickly and easily through society, hiding and diminishing the powerful reality of what the new ideas and technologies can offer to humanity. ↗

— Manuel Toharia-Cortés

#philosophy #science #romantic

She paused and saw him tense in expectation. He wouldn’t like to hear this, but better from her than one of the others. “You aren’t the only pilot I have in my service. And you aren’t the only person with a dark past, though the illegal things that you did, you were forced to do by the Core. But I will tell you what I’ve told the others. This is your last chance. You screw up with me and you get shipped up river. I don’t offer second chances—I offer last chances.” Nope, he didn’t like it. She saw the hand not holding the bottle of beer curl into a fist. Sin and Del, from Sunscapes Trilogy, Book 1: Last Chance ↗

— Michelle O'Leary

#futuristic-romance #michelle-oleary #romance #romantic-adventure #science-fiction

I've got no tolerance for a man who hurts women. Every man on this planet owes his life to a woman. I hope they catch the bastard and hang him by his nuts. ↗

— Pamela Clare

#wisdom #life

Full of intrigue, tangled pasts, and raw emotions, [Gambling On A Secret by Sara Walter Ellwood] is guaranteed to keep you turning pages from start to finish and then wishing for one more chapter! ↗

— Carolyn Brown

#family-drama #romantic-suspense #western #family

First of all, I’m not a ‘military type.’ Second, I never proclaimed to be a gentleman of any kind. I just like the facts straight up. There’s no bullshit to wade through to get to the truth." Dylan ↗

— Sara Walter Ellwood

#family-drama #romantic-suspense #western #family