Funny how we think of romance as always involving two, when the romance of solitude can be ever so much more delicious and intense. Alone, the world offers itself freely to us. To be unmasked, it has no choice.
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Related Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ... GERMANY KENT You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, sim... FRANZ KAFKA You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, sim... FRANZ KAFKA When the mystery of the connection goes, love goes. It's that simple. This suggests that it isn't lo... TOM ROBBINS Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo... GERMANY KENT No age seemed the age of romance to itself. THOMAS CARLYLE I don't write romance novels, any more than Tom Clancy writes legal thrillers. Yes, I write about lo... NICHOLAS SPARKS You need not do anything.
Remain sitting at your table
and listen.
You need not even listen,
just wa... FEMALE IMAGINATION You know that we've got a few problems we need to talk through before we get married." "I... SUSAN ELIZABETH PHILLIPS No matter how troubled a character's history, romance novels tell us, love can be built upon it,... SARAH MACLEAN I don't really get the same kinda romance that I would get from, like, jazz. And even to a lesse... LUPE FIASCO Romance novels are birthday cake and life is often peanut butter and jelly. I think everyone should ... JANET EVANOVICH Lust is temporary, romance can be nice, but love is the most important thing of all. Because without... DANIELLE STEEL Tell me why it feels like you're a part of my soul? CASSANDRA GIOVANNI It’s funny how the beauty of art has so much more to do with the frame than with the artwork itsel... CHUCK PALAHNIUK It is almost impossible for anyone, even the most ineffective among us, to continue to choose misery... WILLIAM GLASSER To me, romance and suspense go hand in hand. What's more suspenseful than wondering how two wond... MAGGIE SHAYNE Dusty is a little longer off the tee. He's a little bigger than last year. Drew came out and fired l... TOM ROMANCE I think a lot of actors, we underprepare emotionally for how intense pilot season can be. And we und... AUTUMN REESER Stubbornness" is knowing exactly what you want courageously living by free will; never to be judged ... MICHELLE CRUZ-ROSADO No one ever said you can’t have world dominance and a little romance too. KATHY BRYSON Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman. OSCAR WILDE Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman OSCAR WILDE To serve the world, serve yourself first by becoming happy and the best person that you can be. DEBASISH MRIDHA I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES The world has become jaded. Romance has died, some no longer believe in love, and because of this, t... WAYNE GERARD TROTMAN Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be. JEFFREY FRY I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, ... HENRY DAVID THOREAU Reach out and help others. If you have the power to make someone happy, do it. Be a vessel, be the c... GERMANY KENT Is the mask magic?" he demanded with sudden, passionate interest. "Yes." I bowed my head, so th... SUSAN KAY How to be wealthy;Birth an idea & then take it to the market place & believe that the market place w... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) How to be perfect;Think nothing,say nothing & do nothing. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) How to be Great;The moment you realize & accept the ordinary fact that those doing great things toda... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) How to be great;Think of a gigantic & unheard of idea to birth & nurture & inside it lies your great... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Choose your words before talking SOTONYE ANGA This was not my moment to be seeking romance and (as day follows night) to further complicate my alr... ELIZABETH GILBERT Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude i... THOMAS DE QUINCEY I came out of what we romance writers call The Romance Ghetto, because we get so little respect. KAREN ROBARDS One of the areas that I think we can do a better job of selling is the customer experience overall. ... CARTER CAST He blesses us so we can be different. CRAIG GROESCHEL But when you're alone in the world, really alone, you have no choice but to be open to suggestions. SARAH DESSEN Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman - or the want of it in the man OSCAR WILDE I confess I am a romantic. I love romance, and I think it's really fun and delicious and some of... RACHEL MCADAMS Romance is quite an overblown word. This idea of chocolates and champagne and that's it. There... JOANNA LUMLEY SACRIFICE OR SELFISHNESS -THE CRUCIAL CHOICE HENNA SOHAIL Romance and romantic are different. Death, itself, can be romantic. Nature and a destructive snowsto... R.B. O'BRIEN Introverts live in two worlds: We visit the world of people, but solitude and the inner world will a... JENN GRANNEMAN Every time you see a black romance, it's over-the-top. There always has to be extreme hostility ... BERNIE MAC Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love. ISAAC DISRAELI Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love. BENJAMIN DISRAELI But many of us seek community solely to escape the fear of being alone. Knowing how to be solitary i... BELL HOOKS To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being. TOM ROBBINS Romance tends to be the whipping boy of genre fiction. LAUREN WILLIG While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to ro... OSCAR WILDE While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to ro... OSCAR WILDE It's bullshit to think of friendship and romance as being different. They're not. They're just varia... RACHEL COHN It's bullshit to think of friendship and romance as being different. They're not. They're just varia... DAVID LEVITHAN Someone gives jewelry, and there's a bit of romance. If you buy it from a store, the store is tr... WARIS AHLUWALIA Gone are the days when heroes are emotionally locked away from the world until the end of the book, ... SARAH MACLEAN IT’S A FUNNY THING TO be the product of a fairy-tale romance. It’s another thing to think you mi... KIERA CASS I always think the most romantic books or films are the ones where the romance doesn't happen, b... NATALIE PORTMAN There's a horrible stereotype of both the romance writer and the romance reader as somehow under... LAUREN WILLIG I've always said a romance hero can be deeply flawed... as long as he's willing to rush into... TERESA MEDEIROS To be, or not to be, that is the question. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I think the truth is that finding ourselves brings more excitement and well-being than anything roma... BELL HOOKS You have no idea how hard it is to live out a great romance. WALLIS SIMPSON There's so much going on in the world. There's so much information being thrown at us - so m... MICHAEL FASSBENDER True love is not so much a matter of romance as it is a matter of anxious concern for the well-being... GORDON B. HINCKLEY I love the concept of the romance that exists when people are broken. Like, the promise of a romance... SHANE CARRUTH Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to e... PAUL TILLICH Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word "loneliness" to... PAUL TILLICH I thought I would write a love letter. But then, I wrote a book." - Suzy Davies, on "Johari's Window SUZY DAVIES Romance is the fiction that owes no allegiance to the God of things as they are. In the novel the wr... AMBROSE BIERCE Each of us has two distinct choices to make about what we will do with our lives. The first choice w... JIM ROHN Like so many others, I came to romance during the golden age of it - Judith McNaught, Julie Garwood,... SARAH MACLEAN How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine." The Q... LEWIS CARROLL There's a reason why most men don't read romance: Romance novels are wish-fulfillment for women. The... OLIVER MARKUS MALLOY Wine, like food, is so emotional. If you think about it, so much of the courting ritual is surrounde... PADMA LAKSHMI How we treat people is always our choice, and if we choose not to be respectful, it can come back to... ALISON LEVINE I don't write as much erotic romance as I used to, but I think that's just because my writin... SHILOH WALKER Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance. OSCAR WILDE Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a mans last romance. OSCAR WILDE While Maddox now believed the demon did not want to hurt Ashlyn, he wasn't willing to take a chance.... GENA SHOWALTER I can't seem to help writing love stories. I definitely crave romance. When I was young, I crave... RAINBOW ROWELL And no, we have no obligation to come to Chicago, kneel before your throne and beg to freely exercis... RICHARD PEARSON Our language has wisely sensed these two sides of man’s being alone. It has created the word “lo... PAUL TILLICH The romance of travel wasn't always terribly evident to those who were actually experiencing it. BILL BRYSON I think romance is anything honest. As long as it's honest, it's so disarming. KRISTEN STEWART Mathematics has beauty and romance. It's not a boring place to be, the mathematical world. It... MARCUS DU SAUTOY As a romance novelist, I have a rather skewed view of babies. You see, they don't typically fit ... SARAH MACLEAN You can't make an action movie without action, and so, you can't make a romance movie withou... GEORGE TILLMAN, JR. Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is t... OSCAR WILDE Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women have a more subtle instinct; what they like to be ... UNKNOWN In a crazy world full of the unknown, you will need two things... Your Gun and My Chemical Romance a... SHANE J VAN DER VELDE I'm someone who loves romance. I always have loved it. Most people who grew up as nerds, as I wa... MINDY KALING 'Tis solitude should teach us how to die;
It hath no flatterers; vanity can give
No hollow aid... LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) Mother Nature offers her nurturing essence to us all freely with no expectation of reciprocation. AMY LEIGH MERCREE The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no on... RACHEL GIBSON This is the true measure of love: When we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever hav... JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE I tend to lean toward romance, characters, and relationships when I write, so I have to add to the s... WENDY HIGGINS
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