In real life, I'd say that your commitment-phobe/narcissist/bad boy boyfriend is a lost cause, but romance is shelved in fiction for a reason.

In fiction, as in real life, love might inspire acts that are at best foolish and at worst life-threatening, but in the best romances, love is the final, secret ingredient that turns mere mortals into heroes and heroines.

Real life doesn't grant us many of the more than useful possibilities people can come out with in fiction.

Real life is sometimes boring, rarely conclusive and boy, does the dialogue need work.

Real life is much stranger than fiction, man.

You have your real life and then you have your work.