#hut

In a lightning-fast move, he placed both of his hands on the brick wall, caging me with his body. He leaned toward me and my heart shifted into a gear I didn't know existed. His warm breath caressed my neck, melting my frozen skin. I tilted my head, waiting for the solid warmth of his body on mine. I could see his eyes again and those dark orbs screamed hunger . "I heard a rumor." "What's that?" I struggled to get out. "It's your birthday." Terrified speaking would break the spell, I licked my suddenly dry lips and nodded. "Happy birthday." Noah drew his lips closer to mine; that sweet musky smell overwhelmed my senses. I could almost taste his lips when he unexpectedly took a step back, inhaling deeply. The cold air slapped me into the land of sober. ↗

— Katie McGarry

#noah-hutchins #swoons #unexpected

Always put yourself in others' shoes. If you feel that it hurts you, it probably hurts the other person, too. ↗

— Rachel Grady

#twitter

It's okay to be fat. So you're fat. Just be fat and shut up about it. ↗

— Roseanne Barr

#fat #just #just be #okay #shut

There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#away #awhile #birds #bring #come

If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow. ↗

— Emile Zola

#grow #shut #shut up #truth #underground

There are even many huts built entirely of the universal aloe. ↗

— Edward Burnett Tylor

#entirely #even #huts #many #universal

It's got too much hard work slapping them and telling them to shut up. ↗

— Jo Brand

#hard #hard work #much #shut #shut up

Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without; for much knowledge is a curse. ↗

— Zhuangzi

#curse #knowledge #much #off #shut

The moment eternal - just that and no more - When ecstasy's utmost we clutch at the core While cheeks burn, arms open, eyes shut, and lips meet! ↗

— Robert Browning

#burn #cheeks #clutch #core #ecstasy

The atmosphere of libraries, lecture rooms and laboratories is dangerous to those who shut themselves up in them too long. It separates us from reality like a fog. ↗

— Alexis Carrel

#dangerous #fog #laboratories #lecture #libraries