I think he thought it would be something nice for Mum and me to have in common, but good exam results were not the thing I was concerned about sharing with her. Cross Ange gives one of these out to Tusk and Ange after their... rather awkward and problematic first meeting. After tending to wounds sustained from crashing her Villkiss, Ange lets Tusk get to work on repairing her machine, which takes about a week. The montage then features the two of them starting to get more used to each other, as the insert song "Necessary" plays (a song that also plays in Episodes 14 and 22; namely the time that their First Kiss and Their First Time happen respectively). At the end of it, Tusk and Ange are stargazing, and start to go for a kiss before something interrupts them. Signature Move: Zaynab and Alma are shown as they do different things together as they become closer, falling for each other. A meet-cute in the style of Jenny Han, and just as sweet and cinematic as YA rom-com fans will expect." Booklist

Saoirse doesn’t believe in love at first sight or happy endings. If they were real, her mother would still be able to remember her name and not in a care home with early onset dementia. A condition that Saoirse may one day turn out to have inherited. So she’s not looking for a relationship. She doesn’t see the point in igniting any romantic sparks if she’s bound to burn out. See, the thing about the falling in love montage,” she said, her voice hoarse, “is that when it’s over, the characters have fallen in love.” A charming romp of a rom-com about the delights and terrors of falling in love. Saoirse is a heroine for the ages; she is smart, flawed, funny, and—when she lets her guard down—achingly vulnerable. This book will make your heart sing. Read it."

Miss Brooks: [narrating] Ours was not the fastest romance in history, but it took no time to develop into one of the slowest. Seventeen-year-old Saoirse (pronounced ‘Seer-sha’- be sure to get it right) is on the cusp of crossing the Irish Sea to read history at Oxford. Except she’s not sure she wants to go. She has more than enough on her plate dealing with her dad’s remarriage, getting over breaking-up with her girlfriend, and coming to terms with her mum’s debilitating illness. She just wants to spend her summer watching horror movies and kissing girls – no strings attached. To that end, Saoirse goes to a mate’s end-of-exams party and gets it on with his cousin Ruby. Irresistibly drawn to Ruby’s good looks and good heart, Saoirse accepts her challenge to embark on a summer romance with all the serious bits left out, in finest romcom tradition. But, as Ruby sagely points out, “the thing about the falling in love montage…is that when it’s over, the characters have fallen in love”. The group text said to come any time after ten, which meant I’d be weirdly early, but if I didn’t leave now there was a possibility that Dad would intercept me and force me to have a deep and meaningful about his new fiancée.

Saoirse has applied to study at Oxford, and if she is successful this will be the last straw in cutting her adrift from all of her support systems: her ex-girlfriend Hannah broke up with her, their mutual best friend Izzy seems to have taken Hannah’s side, Saoirse’s dad is getting remarried, and worst of all, Saoirse’s mam is only in her fifties but has recently moved into a nursing home because of early onset dementia. As if this wasn’t bad enough for the protagonist, her mother’s illness is genetic, and Saoirse feels there is no point in making choices for the future if she is to inherit this condition and be unable to live independently at such an early age. When Saoirse meets pretty, optimistic Ruby she isn’t looking for romance, she just wants a distraction from her dread of the future. Ruby, who is only visiting family for the summer, proposes a falling in love montage: they do everything in her favourite romantic comedies, all the dates and picture perfect moments, up until the dramatic break up and inevitable making up at the end. As you can imagine, things do not go to plan. In this novel, the inevitability of the romantic comedy tropes make for an uplifting and much-needed contrast to the seeming inevitability of mortality and illness. TVTropes is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. I’m certain of it. You’ll have the time of your life. He hesitated then, and I could tell he was ramping up to something else. Suddenly, I knew what it was and my stomach did a giddy flip. I snorted when I finally found the message. Of course, it was good old Oliver Quinn’s party. It was always his party. He had an enormous house and the only reason he didn’t go to some fancy private school is because there wasn’t one anywhere near us. So if I ended up puking in his mother’s rosebushes that wouldn’t be so terrible. Not that I’m still bitter or anything.

LoveReading4Kids Says

Stuart Little 2 has is a love montage between Stuart and Margalo as they enjoy spending time together, such as Margalo watching Stuart skateboarding, Stuart and Margalo eating marshmallows by the Littles' warm fire. Also Stuart and Margalo at a baseball game with the Littles and Stuart and Margalo watching a romantic movie together.

Very R-rated version in Deadpool, a montage of Wade and Vanessa having (kinky) sex over the course of a year set to "Calendar Girl". The Bewitched pilot uses this as its Cold Open, tracing the romance of Samantha and Darrin from their first meeting to their honeymoon. The montage segues into the end of a date and the audience is shown just how in love the couple has become. And how cute they are together. Coming-of-age novels are popular for a reason. They take as their focus huge turning points in characters’ lives, which make for interesting and dramatic stories, like when we leave school and/or home and embark on early adulthood. The world is big and open and for the main character’s taking, if only they can overcome a certain set of obstacles. In The Falling in Love Montage by Ciara Smyth, however, Saoirse’s issue isn’t that the future is uncertain, but that she believes a hereditary illness makes any decisions about the future pointless. The novel is very funny and has adorable, fluffy moments about two girls who aren’t supposed to fall in love, but this is deftly balanced with a darker, sadder story. Madea's Family Reunion has this with Vanessa and Frankie, and an inversion with Lisa and her abusive husband Carlos showing him abusing her.

Examples:

Saoirse, it’s nice to be rich enough that I’m not annoyed you stole a bottle of CÎROC Ten from me. He tapped the Coke bottle in my hand, which created an odd gap in the music. How he knew I’d filled it with his expensive vodka, I don’t know. Let’s call it an educated guess. The romantic story all queer girls deserve: funny, flirty, and absolutely perfect.”— Camryn Garrett, author of Full Disclosure We would avoid the topic until we both grew so resentful that we’d shout terrible things at each other across the living room. Caaaaaan you feel the looooove tonight?" Worth mentioning is that at one point this was going to be somewhat of a deconstruction, as the song was going to be sung sarcastically by Timon and Pumbaa, who were just disgusted at all this "mushy stuff" going on. The only bit of that which survived the final revisions is the ending of the song. I thought about how amazing it was that this moment would exist forever. Perfect and unchanged. A moment where I always be madly in love with Ruby Quinn.”

That’s Seer-sha, by the way. I know Saoirse Ronan’s been on an international tour of duty telling everyone it’s Sur-sha and God knows she’s a national treasure but it’s Seer-sha. It’s really messing things up for all of the other Seer-shas in the country. I don’t know why the poor girl won’t pronounce her own name the way I want. Given that it's a parody of James Bond, Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery plays this fairly straight as Austin treats Vanessa Kensington to a night on the town. As for Saoirse as a heroine . . . admittedly I found her a little frustrating at points, but this did allow for a clear and very nice arc of character development. She’s a very different character at the end of The Falling in Love Montage. Also, this is a YA novel; Saoirse’s actions were very befitting of a teenager and they did fuel points of the plot. That said, Ruby (her love interest, who is plus-sized and body-positive btw!) is a wonderfully level-headed character with a lot more maturity, and I do think a lot of the time she was the bigger person in the relationship and apologised for things that weren’t necessarily her fault. She was kind and understanding, and generally was very chill and seemed like a great and supportive person to date, really. Also, Beth, Saoirse’s father’s new fiance? Actually a lovely person, really glad Saoirse eventually finds common ground with her in the end. (Also shout out to Barbara, that wild wedding shop owner/tailor.) Forever: The series begins with a montage of how Oscar and June met, fell in love, got married, and fell into a rut. I do believe in wanting to get the shift. You know, maul, snog, lob the gob, feek, meet, wear... or as the French say, kiss. That doesn’t get its due as the beautiful phenomenon it is.

Falling in love, riding out change, figuring out what you want to do with your life – Ciara Smyth’s pitch perfect debut simmers with romance and deep-rooted dilemmas, delivered through witty dialogue and affecting emotional detail.