“Read history, works of truth, not novels and romances”
“Life isn't a romance novel. The truth is, the reason romance novels sell so well ---- the reason why everyone loves them ---- is because no one's life is actually like that. Everyone WANTS their life to be like that.”
“Get your deprived, samall-town, romance-novel reading mind out of of the gutter, Becky.”
“Sometimes things don't work out the way we want them to. Life was full of truths that don't play out in romance novels. Sometimes we don't get our happily ever after.”
“Maybe she should stop reading those damn romance novels. They were giving her crazy expectations.”
“I wondered what he would have thought if he'd known that I'd gleaned most of my information from reading historical romance novels.”