Quotes About Romance

I love to have real people of history interact with my fictional characters. History gives me the plot. I research the period meticulously, and then I blend in a romantic and sensual love story to give it balance. The heavier the history, the more romantic the couple must be.

I don't mind falling in love with an actress. I don't have any reservations.

I'm too shy to do kissing scenes.

If I kind of like a guy, then I'm a fantastic flirt. But with a guy I truly like, I get painfully shy.

With Bridgerton,' you're following eight siblings, all with different wants and they'll meet people along the way, and they'll interact differently.

If you're a woman and a guy's ever said anything romantic to you, he just left off the second part that would have made you sick if you could have heard it.

I'm sick of playing romantic leads.

I'm so sick of seeing these movies where married couples are just cuddling on the couch and caressing each other's faces.

When you are desperate to get someone who isn't all that interested in you, you lay siege as hard as you can.

High school is cool, especially that first-love mentality. That's what 'Sierra Burgess' captures is, like, his first moment of love. That's what I love. I like that innocence.

I now believe in love at first sight. Especially after it's happened to me.

I don't think there's anything like love at first sight. What happens is actually lust at first sight.

I met Ant through a mutual friend and it was basically love at first sight.

I wouldn't ever have believed I would marry so young, but it was love at first sight, so there was no point in holding back for the sake of it.

The sights you can find here in Paris are second to none.

You can't sign on for a romance novel adaptation and then get prudish.

Good rom-coms have some reflection of the way things are, the sign of the times.

Isn't that what love means, to fill ordinary, commonplace, conventional things with magic and significance, not to need the moon and white scent-heavy flowers at night?

So I go to my first book signing, and these two girls came up and gave me a piece of paper: '10 reasons you should date our dad. He climbed Mount Kilimanjaro. He's a lawyer.' He didn't know what was going on. He didn't even know me. They called him, and he came down and asked me out that day. Now I'm dating their dad!

I think back on that day when 16-year-old me scribbled on some silly piece of paper for some long-forgotten high school career-day project that my dream job was 'romance novelist.'

My book, 'Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda,' is a gay love story. It's also a story about friendship. Quite honestly, it's also probably a 320-page product placement for Oreos.

It's movies like 'Love, Simon' that are so pivotal because it's this sweet rom-com that you would watch about a straight couple, but it's two guys. It feels natural and real and just charming. I would love to see more movies like that.

I believe the core of most of us women is very simple. We want to feel appreciated, acknowledged, and something as simple as flowers with a little note or some love letters goes a long way.

I think that romance sort of coincides with effort, so you can fall flat on your face, but as long as you're making a great effort, I think it comes off as romantic. So it can be something as simple as, like, if you're someone who doesn't cook, you can make a meal.