#black

Marissa laughed, utterly delighted with her mate. "Later. Food first." Butch settled back immediately, like she'd called his lust to a heel and it behaved because it wanted to be a good boy. As she left, the cop's eyes followed her with rank hunger and adoration. V shook his head. "You are a total sap. ↗

— J.R. Ward

#black-dagger-brotherhood #butch #butch-vishous #j-r-ward #lover-revealed

It is better to die fighting than to die on your knees. ↗

— Emiliano Zapata

#ruby-emam #samad-beh-rang #the-little-black-fish #freedom

The definition of a true friend is not someone who swoops in when you're going through a rough patch. True friendship is when someone can appreciate your happiness - celebrate your happiness, even when she's not necessarily happy herself. ↗

— Sarah Jio

#friendship

There's nothing quite as funny as someone else's misery - Cassel Sharpe ↗

— Holly Black

#fiction #funny

If we survive this, I'm going to have a very serious talk with the techs back home about what constitutes "need to know. ↗

— Evan C. Currie

#home

You're some freaky shit, my brother. You really are ↗

— J.R. Ward

#brothers #humor #love #rhage #humor

The dumber people think you are, the most surprised they're going to be when you kill them. ↗

— William Clayton

#killing #humor

The mind can imagine terrors far more horrific than you could ever physically bear, just like the mind will tune out those physical hurts when the pain surpasses what your body can endure. ↗

— Raine Miller

#blackstone-affair #imagination

Her gaze slid up the thick muscles of his arm, imagining her hand doing the same, imagining what it would feel like to explore a body of such raw, masculine energy. No doubt about it, he was man built for battle. Yet she could seein his sharp, dark eyes, and in the glimpses of humor and caring he'd let slip, that there was so much more to him than the fight. ↗

— Melissa Cutler

#contemporary #romance #suspense #imagination

Who could imagine a poet wearing anything other than black? ↗

— Ann Demeulemeester

#imagination