Everything I Know about Love I Learned from Romance Novels

by Sarah Wendell

most problems are also very likely fixable with varying applications of hard work and some risks or maybe a righteous smack down with a broadsword and a photon-charged handgun.

Bottom line, everyone deserves happiness, period, full stop.

“‘Tell me what you read and I’ll tell you who you are’ is true enough, but I’d know you better if you told me what you reread.”

Selflessness is not an admirable trait when it means you give away everything about yourself, and that includes both men and women. I’m not saying selfishness is the key to being heroic—it surely is not. But molding yourself to the expectations of others is not heroic either, and misleads everyone, including you, and makes for a heroine about as exciting and passionate as plain yogurt at room temperature.

Colin Firth wet and almost-shirtless helps considerably as well.