Awkward Quote by Don Adams

“If I could describe myself, I'd say that I am a poetic gerd. (A geek and nerd combo) I love Shakespeare and romance, but…

— Melanie Kay Taylor

But at the best of times she feels like a character in a Muriel Spark novel — independent, bookish, sharp-minded, secretly romantic.

— David Nicholls

“They both loved her, of course. They’d probably still love her even if they knew she’d seduced him. Yes, because he was so much…

— Kathryn Smith

Direct, forceful, energetic. Loves power, eats up publicity and flattery... Can turn on charm at will and knows it.

— Joseph Stilwell

“And he makes all sorts of people feel that he has exactly what they’ve been looking for. Subtlety for the subtle. Warmth for the…

— Saul Bellow

“He was a student - such things as happened to him, happen sometimes to students. He was a German - such things as happened…

— Mary Elizabeth Braddon

“As a lover or a dipsomaniac, I've no doubt of your being a most fascinating specimen. But as a combiner of forms, you must…

— Aldous Huxley

Romantics consider common sense vulgar.

— Mason Cooley

“Special. Cute. Friends. He wished she'd just cut his testicles off and be done with it already. Depending on the next adjective she chose…

— Jennifer Shirk

“We all know starry-eyed romantics like love stories, but few would argue early and intense exposure to sappy melodrama causes a romantic temperament.”

— Gerard Jones

“My trouble is that my intelligence is materialistic, agnostic, pessimistic and solitary, while my heart is incurably tender, romantic, loving and gregarious.”

— T.H. White

There is a whole generation of romance readers and writers who suffer from what I like to think of as 'Thorn Birds' Fever.

— Sarah MacLean