#asia

I jumped as Finn seemingly materialized next to me. I couldn’t tell if he was talking about the ocean or my desire to be close to him. I lost all train of thought as he fixed his blue eyes on me. “What are you doing here?” I said, a little too spastic. “Baking cookies,” he smirked at me. “You shouldn’t tease me like that, it’s dangerous. I take baked goods very seriously.” A slow smile formed on his lips. “Dangerous happens to be my specialty,” he said in a low voice, taking a step closer to me. My entire body warmed. He was like my own personal bonfire. ↗

— Kristen Day

#humor #stasia #humor

88. People wonder why so many writers come to live in Paris. I’ve been living ten years in Paris and the answer seems simple to me: because it’s the best place to pick ideas. Just like Italy, Spain.. or Iran are the best places to pick saffron. If you want to pick opium poppies you go to Burma or South-East Asia. And if you want to pick novel ideas, you go to Paris. ↗

— Roman Payne

#burma #creativity #expatriate #expatriot #expats

Beckett's probably the hardest man there is to love," Blake said. "He does life wrong for all the right reasons. ↗

— Debra Anastasia

#blake #debra-anastasia #poughkeepsie #life

I wish I wasn't an imperial highness or an ex-grand duchess. I'm sick of people doing things to me because of what I am. Girl-in-white-dress. Short-one-with-fringe. Daughter-of-the-tsar. Child-of-the-ex-tyrant. I want people to look and see me, Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanova, not the caboose on a train of grand duchesses. Someday, I promise myself, no one will be able to hear my name or look at my picture and suppose they know all about me. Someday I will do something bigger than what I am. ↗

— Sarah Miller

#inspirational #life #otma #romanovs #royalty

Who are you if nobody knows your story? ↗

— Thisuri Wanniarachchi

#life #life-lessons-value-of-life-truth #living #soul #south-asia

The platinum Omega watch he gave me at breakfast on our first morning in London obscures the red line. The inscription still makes me swoon. Anastasia You are My More My Love, My Life Christian ↗

— E.L. James

#christian-grey #e-l-james #fifty-shades #fifty-shades-freed #fifty-shades-of-grey

So you've just slept with him, given him your virginity, a man who doesn't love you. In fact, he has odd ideas about you, wants to make you some sort of kinky sex slave. ↗

— E.L. James

#christian-grey #kinky #sex #virgin #virginity

To: Christian Grey You've made me cry again. I love the iPad. I love the songs. I love the British Library App. I love you. Goodnight. Ana xx ↗

— E.L. James

#christian-grey #love

But Blake infused hope in his music. Love was the only song he knew how to play. ↗

— Debra Anastasia

#debra-anastasia #poughkeepsie #love

If he touches me, I will succumb. I know the power he wields over me and my traitorous body. I know. ↗

— E.L. James

#ana-steele #anastasia-grey #anastasia-steele #conflict #fifty-shades-freed