Not for the first time, I reflected that intimacy and romance are not synonymous. Diana Gabaldon More Quotes by Diana Gabaldon More Quotes From Diana Gabaldon A romance is a courtship story. In the 19th century, the definition of the romance genre was an escape from daily life that included adventure and love and battle. But in the 20th century, that term changed, and now it's deemed only a love story, specifically a courtship story. Diana Gabaldon dailyadventurelovelife Whenever you're dealing with something that's difficult to describe, that you can't get across to someone in a sound bite, it sounds like the normal default is to pick what's easiest, and in the case of fiction written by women, fiction involving women, fiction involving any sort of relationship, the word that comes to mind is 'romance.' Diana Gabaldon youwomenmindrelationship Ye are Blood of my Blood, and Bone of my Bone, I give ye my Body, that we Two might be One. I give ye my Spirit, 'til our Life shall be Done. Diana Gabaldon givingtwoblood
