I ask a lot of people what romance is: to themselves, personally. What do they do that is romantic and why.
Well somebody actually asked me the same thing: “Jim, what do YOU think romance is?” Well, I had to think a few moments, and here it is:
romance is ...
And you can quote me: We always need life's peak experiences, and so we never outgrow our hunger for romance.—Jim HindsAh, everything was blessed and beartified by her presence. Whereever I looked, whatever I touched, the rug before her chair, her cushion, her little table --- they were all mysteriously allied to her. And, oh, the first time she addressed me by name, that she came so close to me that her innocent breath touched my listening being!
-- Friedrich Holderlin

