A good romance is defined by a passionate desire. A want of something so near, but unattainable. It’s longing of the future or of the past and the possibilities that could never be. It’s the futility and foolishness of making oneself vulnerable, no matter what disasters may occur.
A good romance rarely ends happily, and if it grips you it has the power to melt and break your heart in the same breath.
It’s committing suicide in order to remember what it was like to live.
Well, that’s a pretty good evocation of something we’ve all felt, isn’t it? Those three paragraphs stand quite strong on their own, without any context.
You might be surprised to find out that they’re actually part of a discussion of the romance between a book nerd and (literally) diabolical temptress in a web comic. But they are.
Perhaps ironically, that particular storyline isn’t terribly interesting to me, even though I’ve been reading Sinfest regularly for almost a decade
