  "How curious to realize the betrayal wasn't so much in the act but in the need. " (Victoria Alexander, urlLink The Husband List ) Lots of people think romance novels are crap or mush - a waste of words or paper, anesthetic to the female mind. I'm not going to spend a lot of time defending them (in part because urlLink it's been done and in part because that's not my point at the moment), but I will assert that nuggets of truth can be found in surprising places.
Sometimes I think I'm just reading for entertainment and not using my brain at all, learning anything, "thinking" beyond the most basic action required for the comprehension of fiction, and then a sentence or a phrase will appear and work its way into my consciousness, and it will all have been proven worthwhile. I might forget the names of the protagonists of The Husband List over time, but that line will remain with me. 
