I joined the army on my seventeenth birthday, full of the romance of war after having read a lot of World War I British poetry and having seen a lot of post-World War II films. I thought the romantic presentations of war influenced my joining and my presentation of war to my younger siblings.

Romance novels are birthday cake and life is often peanut butter and jelly. I think everyone should have lots of delicious romance novels lying around for those times when the peanut butter of life gets stuck to the roof of your mouth.

“Romance novels are birthday cake and life is often peanut butter and jelly. I think everyone should have lots of delicious romance novels lying around for those times when the peanut butter of life gets stuck to the roof of your mouth.”

“When I behold, upon the night's starred face, / Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance.”

“Searching for the real Martha Washington didn't seem at first to promise much drama, romance or adventure.”

“Romance is dead - it was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece.”

Star-crossed lovers desperate to get home together. Two hearts beating as one. Romance.

Soul mate romance dissolves the superficial and touches your deepest heart with the delightful power of love.

You're wearing a lace thong?" Dolly clapped her hands. "That's absolutely perfect for romance.

Romance only comes into existence where love is fatal, frowned upon and doomed by life itself.