#contemporary

She tries to wear her pain on the inside. She always has. It’s the trademark of the oldest sibling, I think. ↗

— Laura Miller

#contemporary-romance #love #my-butterfly #love

Fuck me,” I whispered, giving him permission, taking him into my flesh, a soft invitation to madness. ↗

— Emme Rollins

#crazy-in-love #crazy-love #crazy-quotes #crazy-stupid-love #erotic-romance

They decided to establish a museum of modern art where works by contemporary artists would be shown. Mother was viewed as a very progressive person, and not everybody liked the paintings she bought. ↗

— David Rockefeller

#artists #bought #contemporary #decided #establish

His presence was stirring heat in all the wrong places and for all the wrong reasons. ↗

— Justine Dell

#hot-hero #long-lost-love #love-story #lovers #romance

What’s bothering me is you always seem ready to snap my head off my shoulders and I’m not comfortable with that. ↗

— Justine Dell

#contemporary-romance #hot-hero #long-lost-love #love-story #lovers

Hey, you’re the one who can’t stand me being so close to you. ↗

— Justine Dell

#contemporary-romance #hot-hero #long-lost-love #love-story #lovers

But there’s more. When I was on my way to the event today, Carolyn texted me and told me that Steve and Eve got married over break. Six months after he broke up with me, and after he kept telling me he didn’t see marriage in his future! And did I tell you that he broke up with me at the school, during the Fitness Fun-a-Thon fundraising event we worked at?” Her face grew reflective. “I was handing out bottled water when he asked me to go behind the hydration station so he could talk to me privately. The whole time, Eve kept staring at us from the finish line of the three-legged race. She knew I was getting dumped before I did. ↗

— Linda Morris

#entangled #melting-the-millionaire-s-heart #marriage

His heart cracked open and flooded all the space around it. ↗

— Jean Thompson

#inspirational-quote #inspirational

That's a movie quote, right? You know, if you do that with books, people think you're intelligent." Sophie lowered her chin. "If this is your pathetic attempt to seduce me again, you're falling miserably." "I don't seduce woman." Phin shoved back his chair and stood up. "They fall into my open arms." "Clumsy of them. ↗

— Jennifer Crusie

#intelligence

I was interested in opera and it seemed to me that the only possible theatre for contemporary opera would be television. So I started working towards a kind of television kind of opera. ↗

— Robert Ashley

#i #interested #kind #me #only