“You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.” -E.M. Forster

Romance readers know many things that others don't. Appreciators of emotional intelligence, the beauty of the body, and happy endings, they are beacons of hope and escapism. Unafraid to push the boundaries, they are the reading world's vanguards of representation, showing that all types of love stories, whether real or fantastical, are beautiful. 

Whether tucking into epics like Gone with the Wind or Wuthering Heights or drifting into the pages of The Time Traveler's Wife or Twilight, this ancient-looking interpretation of the heart shape is a sophisticated and earthy companion.