#hum

Maybe I should keep you in a walled garden so you can't ever leave.' The image this conjured up was so vivid that for a moment he couldn't think how to answer. He glanced down at her, his mouth open as if to speak, but no words came out. The truth was, he thought, feeling humble, feeling stupid, he didn't think he would mind any more than the raelynx did being kept in perpetual service to the princess. 'Men generally don't make very good pets,' he said at last, and she went off in a peal of laughter. ↗

— Sharon Shinn

#romance #men

I'll let you in on a secret. I don't drink coffee." I genuinely gasped in horror. "The devil you say. Java is the nectar of the gods. I don't know if I can be with a man who doesn't drink coffee." I knew there was something sinister about him. I had no idea it would be that bad. ↗

— Charlie Cochet

#humor

Denis could think of no logical reason why he should not attempt to mate with Beth Cooper. There were no laws explicitly against it. They were of the same species, and had complementary sex organs, most likely, based on extensive mental modeling Denis had done. ↗

— Larry Doyle

#love #love

God probably thinks it’s worth giving a sense of humor only to those of us who have to laugh at all the rubbish bits that are wrong with us. ↗

— Allison Pearson

#love

Lastly, say to me, if you can, with feelings as tender as mine for you: my dear Beelzebub, I adore you... ↗

— Jacques Cazotte

#love

In love, one always begins in deceiving oneself, and one always ends in deceiving others. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#love

I am the Captain of my own life. ↗

— Lexis De Rothschild

#fiction #humor #novella #offbeat #page-turner

We do not see the world through a window, but through a mirror. Everything we discern is comparatively held to the vision with which we see ourselves. ↗

— LeeAnn Taylor

#hope #humanity #light #love #people

You know how they say you have to first love yourself before you love another? I did. I didn't like it. I'm WAY too high maintenance. ↗

— Vasu Ritu Primlani

#love

Women are really strange, if you think about it. But this was no ordinary woman. This was a succubus—a life sucking monster. ↗

— Justin Villanueva

#love #life