#first

She couldn't turn away from the eyes that held her. Eyes as deep, as Dark as the night, yet there was something that sparked with warmth, that kept those eyes from being cold. ↗

— Lora Leigh

#lora-leigh #love-at-first-sight #lovers #micah #risa

Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress. ↗

— George Eliot

#beauty

When we first started, we were a band from Athens and that was so off the map. ↗

— Michael Stipe

#band #first #map #off #started

A witch sees through things and around things. A witch sees farther than most, a witch sees things from the other side. A witch knows where she is, who she is and when she is ... ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#men

And I'll never forget the first time I took the possibility to project sound every day for six or seven hours with special devices which were built for me. ↗

— Karlheinz Stockhausen

#day #devices #every #every day #first

Hmmm. What you’re saying is that you’ve never been kissed?” He picked at a string on the blanket under us. ↗

— Laura Anderson Kurk

#first-kiss #glass-girl #henry-whitmire #laura-anderson-kurk #love

If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. ↗

— J.D. Salinger

#holden #parenting

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce. ↗

— Karl Marx

#first #history #history repeats itself #itself #repeats

This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet. ↗

— Rumi

#each #fall #feet #finally #first

The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel. ↗

— William Gibson

#television