#fr

I love you,” he said, and he kissed me again. Feral. Possessive. I gasped out, “I love you too. ↗

— Jennifer L. Armentrout

#j-lynn #jennifer-l-armentrout #love

I never lost the certainty that he was the perfect boy. The perfect boy for me anyway. I just tried not to think about it, because it made me ache inside. ↗

— Cat Clarke

#love #the-one #love

True artistry in perfumery is the marriage of notes that may juxtapose each other but become harmonious in a blend. Born of pure creativity and an astounding knowledge of literally thousands of synthetics and hundreds of Essential oils, they must possess the ability to marry disparate and conjugal notes into a harmonious blend. ↗

— Marian Bendeth

#global-fragrance-expert #marian-bendeth #perfumes #sixth-scents #marriage

And he rose, brontosaurus-like, to his place among the treetops. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#jeffrey-eugenides #madeleine-hanna #marriage-plot #marriage

That would be Axelroot all over, to turn up with an extra wife or two claiming that's how they do it here. Maybe he's been in Africa so long he's forgotten that we Christians have our own system of marriage, and it's called Monotony. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#marriage #monogamy #marriage

Best (male-female) friends hardly differ from lovers, but not too many lovers are best friends. It's just ironical that you are in love and want to spend the rest of your life with someone who is not good enough to be your best friend. ↗

— Olaotan Fawehinmi

#friends #love #lovers #marriage #olaotan-fawehinmi

I don't think she realized how much she cared for him, or he for her, until the end. Hasn't someone said a woman may be known by the men who love her enough to die for her? (If they haven't, I claim the credit myself.) ↗

— Elizabeth Peters

#amelia #love #nefret #love

Scramblers deactivated, then? Well here's some good news. You feel no pain. You will go straight to a hospital. Remember nothing of this place. And every time you hear the words "parsley", "intractable" or "longitude", you will vomit uncontrollably for forty-eight hours. ↗

— Joss Whedon

#men

But genius, and even great talent, springs less from seeds of intellect and social refinement superior to those of other people than from the faculty of transforming and transposing them. To heat a liquid with an electric lamp requires not the strongest lamp possible, but one of which the current can cease to illuminate, can be diverted so as to give heat instead of light. To mount the skies it is not necessary to have the most powerful of motors, one must have a motor which, instead of continuing to run along the earth's surface, intersecting with a vertical line the horizontal line which it began by following, is capable of converting its speed into lifting power. Similarly, the men who produce works of genius are not those who live in the most delicate atmosphere, whose conversation is the most brilliant or their culture the most extensive, but those who have had the power, ceasing suddenly to live only for themselves, to transform their personality into a sort of mirror, in such a way that their life, however mediocre it may be socially and even, in a sense, intellectually, is reflected by it, genius consisting in reflecting power and not int he intrinsic quality of the scene reflected. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#genius #intellect #proust #seed #social

The sin both of men and of angels, was rendered possible by the fact that God gave us free will. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#free-will #men #sin #men