“Romance requires trust—and the deeper the trust, the deeper the possibility for romance.”

Interview with Rebecca Murray http://romanticmovies.about.com/cs/lostintranslation/a/lostbillint.htm <br class="br">Context: I think romance basically starts with respect. And new romance always starts with respect. I think I have some romantic friendships. Like the song “Love the One You’re With”; there is something to that. It’s not just make love to whomever you’re with, it’s just love whomever you’re with. And love can be seeing that here we are and there’s this world here. If I go to my room and I watch TV, I didn’t really live. If I stay in my hotel room and watch TV, I didn’t live today.

The scene is a society ball in London.
Source: A Lodge in the Wilderness (1906), Ch. V, p. 145.

Name for hypothetical planet nearer the Sun than Mercury
The Story of the Heavens, London, 1893, p. 122

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Useful Knowledge (1928)

Table-Talk (1857)
Context: Round about what is, lies a whole mysterious world of might be, — a psychological romance of possibilities and things that do not happen. By going out a few minutes sooner or later, by stopping to speak with a friend at a corner, by meeting this man or that, or by turning down this street instead of the other, we may let slip some great occasion of good, or avoid some impending evil, by which the whole current of our lives would have been changed. There is no possible solution to the dark enigma but the one word, "Providence".

Reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 676.

The Wheel of Fortune (1984), Part 1: Robert
Context: Romance is the opiate of the dissatisfied, it anaesthesises them from the pain of their disordered second-rate lives [... ] If romance is the opiate of the dissatisfied then surely nostalgia is the opiate of the disillusioned, for those who see all their dreams come true and find themselves living in a nightmare.

Prayer and the Art of Volkswagen Maintenance (2000, Harvest House Publishers)