#romantic

The white lily stands for purity. Artists for centuries have pictured the angel Gabriel coming to the virgin Mary with a spray of lillies in his hand, to announce that she is to be the mother of the Turks. ↗

— Carroll Bryant

#fiction-novel #love #lovers #lovers-love-story #romance

When a man finds the one woman who is right, it scarcely matters what else is wrong. ↗

— Victoria Alexander

#unconditional-love #love

I was always useless at flirting, and simply did not know what needed to be done in order to snare my target... I always ended up resorting to jokes, and most men don't like funny women. They like to do the jokes. ↗

— Joan Sims

#flirting #romantic-failures #womanly-wiles #men

Every week, Michael went to Dean and DeLuca to buy your pears." She shook her head, remembering. "He waas going to school, and he had no money, so he stretched every penny like this -" She made a motion as if she were pulling on rubber band. "But he wanted you to have the best pears. For you, only the best would do. ↗

— Judith McNaught

#money

You know, typically a nickname is shorter than the given name.” “Is it?” he asked in mock seriousness. “Oh. Well, tell you what, you can call me…” She waited several beats, thinking of more than a few unkind examples. “I can call you what?” she finally asked. “That’s it.” He shot her his bone-melting smile. “You can just call me. Anytime.” She rolled her eyes, refusing to give in to the smile that threatened. “That sounds like a line from one of your movies.” He shot her a triumphant look. “Ah, ha! I knew you were a fan. ↗

— Jennifer Shirk

#romantic-comedy #movies

Okay," she said as he lit the candle and hummed the birthday song. "You know,this is all very Jake Ryan of you." "Who's Jake Ryan?" "The hottie from Sixteen Candles—the best teenage movie ever made. The last scene looks just like this," she said, looking around the room. "All right, well, don't you go wishing for him when you blow out the candle." "I love you,Jace. You're the only thing I want. ↗

— Phoebe Lane

#hilarious #love #romantic #love

I don't mean like balls-in-your-face or gifts of pornography and butt plugs romantic, just cute, over-the-pants, PG-13 movie stuff. ↗

— Frances Winkler

#funny-as-hell #pornography #romantic-comedy-weird #movies

Twas hard to dislike a man she so enjoyed in bed. Twas harder still to dislike one who kept showing her a more gentle side to his nature ↗

— Johanna Lindsey

#romantic #nature

I was more addicted to self destruction then to the drugs themselves ... something very romantic about it ↗

— Gerard Way

#self-destructive-behavior #romantic

I don't think sleeping with you is going to solve anything," she said, stopping at the guest bedroom door. "I don't really care what you think. ↗

— Cindy Gerard

#romantic-suspense #romantic