“A cynic by experience, a romantic by inclination and now a hero by necessity.”
“Life was very sad if there were not - and unbearably so if one's experience with romantic love turned one into an incurable cynic.”
“Cynics are simply thwarted romantics.”
“Beneath every cynic there's a frustrated romantic.”
“The cynicism that regards hero worship as comical is always shadowed by a sense of physical inferiority.”
“. . . the romantic teenager buried deep inside her was weeping at the perversion of her love story. There was no hero in her romance, and the villain made her feel things that she had never imagined she could experience.”