Robin Wasserman Quotes

Women want the fairytale. Not all women, of course, but most women grow up dreaming about the kind of man who would risk everything for them, even knowing they might get hurt.

My mother says happy ever after's a bunch of bull.

Fantasy love is much better than reality love.

Like everybody, I too believed that couples lived happily ever after. But it only happens in books.

There’s no such thing as handsome princes, she told herself. There’s no such thing as happily ever after.

That's your problem! You don't want to be in love. You want to be in love in a movie.

I think the barrier for a lot of people to actual, real, lasting love is the fantasy. The problem is that we think in "happily ever after" love, but real love grows over time, and priorities change.

Happily ever after is a concept I'll never believe in.

That's the fairy tale. You meet, you fall in love, you kiss, and neither of you is revolted by it. You get married and have kids and live happily ever after.

I've learned that I want what I deny. I want someone who is crazy about me, who treats me like a princess. I want the picture-perfect fairy tale stuff.

And if real life was like the movies, I should have lived happily ever after.

Romance novels satisfy a very specific fantasy of romantic love that seems to be a powerful part of the female psyche.

I am a romantic person and maybe have this Hollywood perception of love... but then, it's never really like the movies.

We have this idealized romanticism about how love might solve all of our problems, but then it doesn't.

The problem with idealizing love is that it causes us to develop unrealistic expectations about what love actually is and what it can do for us.

And what's romance? Usually, a nice little tale where you have everything As You Like It, where rain never wets your jacket and gnats never bite your nose and it's always daisy-time.

Storybook endings never appear. They're just 'someone's' way of leading us here.

Hero: Person in a book who does things which he can't and girl marries him for it.

I read and I read; and I was like a medieval king, I had fallen in love with the picture long before I saw the reality.

...have a theory that she is in love with the dream of someone and not an actual person.

There I went again, building up a glamorous picture of a man who would love me passionately the minute he met me, and all out of a few prosy nothings.

I dont know about happily ever after... but I know about happily, Weetzie Bat thought.

I am certain I have not a right feeling towards women -- at this moment I am striving to be just to them, but I cannot. Is it because they fall so far beneath my boyish imagination? When I was a schoolboy I thought a fair woman a pure Goddess; my mind was a soft nest in which some one of them slept, though she knew it not.

But I still has enough longing for that concept that I didn't want to dispel it completely. Meaning: I didn't want to tell Lily that I felt we'd all been duped by Plato and the idea of a soul mate. Just in case it turned out that she was mine.