Twitter was alive on Monday with the trending topic #My5WordRomanceNovel. While it may seem like a story from the modern ages, the concept actually stems from Ernest Hemingway’s ‘For sale: baby shoes: never worn.’ In which he presented the idea that a story can be told in even the simplest of ways.
The tweets that flooded the Twitterverse ranged from brutally honest to a little bit random. Here are a few of our favourites:
Please leave once we’re done #My5WordRomanceNovel
— It’s Meagan (@MeaganAldaine) March 28, 2016
Screw this, I’m dying alone
#My5WordRomanceNovel— Tara Dublin (@taradublinrocks) March 28, 2016
#My5WordRomanceNovel
Put. A. Bird. On. It.— Portlandia (@portlandia) March 28, 2016
Sarcasm is my only soulmate #My5WordRomanceNovel
— Sarcasm (@sarcastic_us) March 28, 2016
We decided to take the concept one step further and used the power of video for one of the most romantic quotes of the modern age (Well, we think so anyway).
Then we thought about the ultimate power couple, The Underwoods and how could we leave them out?