“Runaways are romantic. The girls are waiflike with dyed ratty hair and baggy pants. They usually own a stray dog of the mutt variety and drag it along by a rope, plopping down in front of storefronts to beg for money from passersby. They're a mess. It is likely they'll charm you, make you think you're their best friend and savior only to end up using you and then they'll disappear. That's why they're romantic. They're there and then they're gone. Romance is always about people appearing in a flash out of nothing or people who are there and then suddenly are not. A magic trick.”

“Pink is the color of romance and a friend tells me that the girl with the pink dress at the party is the one who is selected for each dance”

“When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels.”

“We always felt we have male readers who say they don't read our romance novels — but they do.”

Jesus is compelling in the way the discovery of the stars or the experience of a one-of-a-kind romance is compelling. His presence draws you in to the deep.

“If you hate what you're seeing, you call it sex and violence. If you like it, you call it "romance and adventure."”

I can't imagine a romance novel published today where the hero rapes the heroine and she falls in love with him.

I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out of me with steel pipes.

Yet I am stuck in the idea of romance, a dreamer; I want to actually fall in love with a man, then marry him

The vampire could woo any woman with his charisma and his charm, but he only wishes to romance her.. for eternity.