#hem

I wasn’t aware of just how close he’d moved to me until now. So many details came into focus. The shape of his lips, the line of his neck. “I’m not dangerous,” I breathed. He brought his face toward mine. “You are to me.” And somehow, against all reason, we were kissing. I closed my eyes, and the world around me faded. The noise, the smoke . . . it was gone. All that mattered was the taste of his mouth, a mix of cloves and mints. There was a fierceness in his kiss, a desperation . . . and I answered, just as hungry for him. I didn’t stop him when he pulled me closer, so that I almost sat on his lap. I’d never been wrapped around someone’s body like that, and I was shocked at how eagerly mine responded. His arm went around my waist, pulling me onto him further, and his other hand slid up the back of my neck, getting entangled in my hair. He took his lips away from my mouth, gently trailing kisses down to my neck. I tipped my head back, gasping when the intensity returned to his mouth. There was an animalistic quality that sent shock waves through the rest of my body. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#chemistry #kissing #making-out #sydney-sage #adrian-ivashkov

To govern mankind, one must not overrate them. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#mankind #must #them

There is an appropriate time to release somebody or to give them a break. ↗

— Gary Gilmore

#appropriate time #break #give #release #somebody

I hate auditions - when I'm doing them, I can't wait to get out the bleeding door. ↗

— Ian Hart

#bleeding #doing #door #get #hate

I'm for catching every Japanese in America, Alaska, and Hawai'i now and putting them in concentration camps. ↗

— Francis Biddle

#america #camps #catching #concentration #every

The fact of the matter is that they are entitled to request a recount. We're entitled to give them a recount. ↗

— Kenneth Blackwell

#fact #give #matter #recount #request

Life and death are important. Don't suffer them in vain. ↗

— Bodhidharma

#important #life #life and death #suffer #them

All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#children #courage #house #into #lives

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#bona fide #doing #falls #fide #ground

In marked contrast to the University of Wisconsin, Biochemistry was hardly visible at Stanford in 1945, consisting of only two professors in the chemistry department. ↗

— Paul D. Boyer

#chemistry #consisting #contrast #department #hardly