#gh

In New York there is always something to look at, but it is all infinitely more interesting through a window in the backseat of a limousine. ↗

— Anna Godbersen

#bright-young-things #city #flapper #limousine #new-york

She reached for the milk and honey soap, then poured it into the puff, but when she started washing him with it, he chuckled. “Uh, sweetheart?” “Hmm?” Candice mumbled as she stared at some interesting spot on his arm. “Real men don’t use puffs,” he said, amused and turned on by having Candice’s undivided attention. She finally managed to drag her gaze away from his forearm and stared at him as if he’d lost his mind. “You can’t be serious?” When he only shrugged, she rolled her eyes. “What does it matter what I use, so long as you’re clean?” “It matters, believe me.” Blade knew he sounded absurd but he couldn’t help it. It was bad enough he’d let her put bandages on a few measly cuts; if word got out he’d let her use a peach-colored puff and milk-and-honey bath soap he’d never hear the end of it. A man had to put his foot down somewhere. ↗

— Anne Rainey

#erotic-romance #steamy #vaughn-series #men

It had taunted, provoked, brushed its big, hard body against hers at every opportunity, and in general lounged about looking like the epically horny fairy it was reputed to be. ~Gabby's thoughts on Adam ↗

— Karen Marie Moning

#gabby #karen-marie-moning #the-immortal-highlander #thought-provoking

The impoverished always try to keep moving, as if relocating might help. They ignore the reality that a new version of the same old problem will be waiting at the end of the trip- the relative you cringe to kiss. ↗

— Markus Zusak

#thought-provoking

We don't always get the journey we want. But we always get the journey we need. ↗

— Alyson Noel

#thought-provoking #thought-provoking

I wondered if all a person could hope for was illusion and luck, for I was forced to conclude that the world was fundamentally and appallingly dangerous. It is a lesson I will never forget. ↗

— Charlotte Rogan

#thought-provoking

Sometimes I wonder if any of us are cut out for the lives we lead. ↗

— Rebecca Wells

#thought-provoking

She said, "Do you have more things that you need, or more that you don't need?" I said, "It depends on what it means to need. ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#thought-provoking

This is how everything should end: with the forgotten remembered, the wounded healed, and the sinners forgiven. ↗

— Jenny Hollowell

#thought-provoking

It is the story that lies around the edges of the photographs, or at the end of newspaper account. It's about the lies we tell others to protect them, and about the lies we tell ourselves in order not to acknowledge what we can't bear: that we are alive, for instance, and eating lunch, while bombs are falling, and refugees are crammed into camps, and the news comes toward us every hour of the day. And what, in the end, do we do? ↗

— Sarah Blake

#war #thought-provoking