“Outside of God's perspective, even romance loses its significance. Not in riches or in romance do we find fulfillment, but in God.”

“Life is a roar of bargain and battle, but in the very heart of it there rises a mystic spiritual tone that gives meaning to the whole. It transmutes the dull details into romance. It reminds us that our only but wholly adequate significance is as parts of the unimaginable whole. It suggests that even while living we are living to ends outside ourselves”

“Romance is thinking about your significant other, when you are supposed to be thinking about something else.”

“Oh God. valentine's Day tomorrow. Why? Why? Why is (the) entire world geared to make people not involved in romance feel stupid when everyone knows romance does not work anyway. Look at (the) royal family. Look at Mum and Dad.”

“Romance takes place in the middle distance. Romance is looking in at yourself through a window clouded with dew. Romance means leaving things out: where life grunts and shuffles, romance only sighs.”

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

“Lo! with a little rod
I did but touch the honey of romance —
And must I lose a soul's inheritance?”

“We all know interspecies romance is weird.”

“Funny how we think of romance as always involving two, when the romance of solitude can be ever so much more delicious and intense.”

“From evening soaps to preteen romances, [the message is that] inner values are for losers.”