Quotes About Romance

I never paid attention to many of the Nicholas Sparks films. 'The Notebook,' which my wife liked, I felt that Ryan Gosling was a genius in it and Rachel McAdams has this thing about her that you just want to take care of her. I remember that chemistry between them.

The first thing I did when I sold my book was buy a new wedding ring for my wife and asked her to marry me all over again.

I do stupid stuff like that: I'll call my wife from the road, send her pictures of glaciers.

I met my wife by breaking two of my rules: never date a girl seriously that you meet at a nightclub and never date a fan.

I met my wife; she barely owned a television and worked for Save the Children. We sat down one night, and we fell in love, and that was it.

If I can be my crazy, wild self in front of a person, and he still likes me, that's romantic.

I think everybody can relate to loving somebody and them bringing out a wild side in you.

'Tempting the Best Man' centers around Madison Daniels, who's had a major crush on her brother's best friend since she was a girl.

If you fall in love with someone, it doesn't matter who they are. I've had lots of girlfriends who weren't in the public eye. It is hard, all the intrusion: you have a row with someone, and even though you've sorted everything out, you get the are-they-going-to-split headlines for the next ten days.

Men tend to fall in love when they feel like they are cherished or revered as the 'man' in the relationship.

We tend to connect bad food and bad habits with romance and sex.

Barriers tend to intensify romance. It's called the 'Romeo and Juliet effect.' I call it 'frustration attraction.'

Honestly, I have a tendency to date dorks. Which means that a lot of times, I date guys that no one else would deem to be a hunk.

We all want to be carried away to a whole other world and have romantic tendencies about escaping to an exotic place and being swept off our feet.

She felt like a chess player who, by the clever handling of his pieces, sees the game taking the course intended. Her eyes were bright and tender with a smile as they glanced up into his; and her lips looked hungry for the kiss which they invited.

For me, the perfect romantic suspense hero has got to be tough on the outside but tender at his core. A take-charge kind of guy who has his own inner strength and a strong sense of right and wrong - which might not dovetail with the conventional wisdom. I mean, he might bend the law if he thinks the ends justify the means.

Prom has all the elements of a popular story. It reeks of all-Americanness, tension, drama. It has romance. Pretty dresses. Dancing. Limos. High school. Coming of age.

It's often the death of the show when you break the tension and the two lead characters get together.

The 'Moonlighting' tension of the couple that obviously never can get together, there's an innate sort of fun and tension in that.

The big things in the average person's life are the romances that they have - and then the destruction and loss of them. Parents, siblings, children, the death of parents, family tension... these are monumental things. They struck me as being interesting to write about. I didn't have a very exotic life, but all this stuff happened to me.

I think there is always romantic tension between Lois Lane and Clark Kent.

I hate the term 'rom-com.'

In terms of the romantic kind of lead, I just never enjoy those movies very much. Maybe they'll come to interest me more as I get older. I doubt it, but maybe. Romantic comedies tend to be, for me, an oxymoron.

Are you kidding? I'm a terrible cook, but John is a really great one. Literally, I never cook. The whole time we were dating, I prepared two officially romantic meals. Both of them were such disasters that he begs me never to go into the kitchen again.