“Classicism is health, romanticisim is sickness.”
“I m Batman, so I could be your hero anyway!”
“los grandes amores -como los héroes- deben morir jóvenes”
“Because with you, I’ve found me.- Ace”
“Why do yo keep doing this? Because I ve wanted to be with you for three years, okay? That s why.”
“I am not incomplete without you.... I am just little less that complete... Love Unsung.”
“All I ve ever wanted was to be near you.”
“Over everything, I choose you”
“My nightmares are usually about losing you. I m okay once I realize you re here.”
“You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you.”
“He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.”
“I m not sentimental--I m as romantic as you are. The idea, you know, is that the sentimental person thinks things will last--the romantic person has a desperate confidence that they won t.”
“You two are too cute,” the counter girl said, setting two cups piled with whipped cream on the counter. She had a sort of lopsided, open smile that made me think she laughed a lot. “Seriously. How long have you been going out?” Sam let go of my hands to get his wallet and took out some bills. “Six years.” I wrinkled my nose to cover a laugh. Of course he would count the time that we’d been two entirely different species. Whoa.” Counter girl nodded appreciatively. “That’s pretty amazing for a couple your age. Sam handed me my hot chocolate and didn’t answer. But his yellow eyes gazed at me possessively—I wondered if he realized that the way he looked at me was far more intimate than copping a feel could ever be. I crouched to look at the almond bark on the bottom shelf in the counter. I wasn’t quite bold enough to look at either of them when I admitted, “Well, it was love at first sight.” The girl sighed. “That is just so romantic. Do me a favor, and don’t you two ever change. The world needs more love at first sight.”
“Are you following me? she asks, but doesn t meet my gaze. Yeah, I say. Why? I give her the only honest and true answer I have. You re where I want to be.”
“Fighting, laughing, loving or crying, if it was with him, I was where I wanted to be.”
“Falling in love is very real, but I used to shake my head when people talked about soul mates, poor deluded individuals grasping at some supernatural ideal not intended for mortals but sounded pretty in a poetry book. Then, we met, and everything changed, the cynic has become the converted, the sceptic, an ardent zealot.”
“It starts so young, and I m angry about that. The garbage we re taught. About love, about what s romantic. Look at so many of the so-called romantic figures in books and movies. Do we ever stop and think how many of them would cause serious and drastic unhappiness after The End? Why are sick and dangerous personality types so often shown a passionate and tragic and something to be longed for when those are the very ones you should run for your life from? Think about it. Heathcliff. Romeo. Don Juan. Jay Gatsby. Rochester. Mr. Darcy. From the rigid control freak in The Sound of Music to all the bad boys some woman goes running to the airport to catch in the last minute of every romantic comedy. She should let him leave. Your time is so valuable, and look at these guys--depressive and moody and violent and immature and self-centered. And what about the big daddy of them all, Prince Charming? What was his secret life? We dont know anything about him, other then he looks good and comes to the rescue.”