Famous quotes containing the words romantic and/or period:
“It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.”
—Stendhal [Marie Henri Beyle] (1783–1842)
“Finally she grew quiet, and after that, coherent thought. With this, stalked through her a cold, bloody rage. Hours of this, a period of introspection, a space of retrospection, then a mixture of both. Out of this an awful calm.”
—Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)