#ian

Sydney spent a lot of time on my bed these days. unfortunately, it wasn't with me. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#bloodlines #humor #richelle-mead #sydney-sage #sydrian

An element of fantasy is needed when falling in love and I was unable to find the fantasy element with any of the male gender ↗

— Novala Takemoto

#lesbian #love #love

Evangeline," he sighed. "It ain't ever goan to be easy with you, is it? ↗

— Kresley Cole

#fiction #romance #young-adult #young-adult-fiction

Our tragedy is that we forget it might be someone else first. ↗

— Holly Black

#distopian #young-adult-fiction #young-adult-fiction

Christ did not ask or want to be what he was not. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#christ #christianity #dejan-stojanovic #jesus-christ #literature

You can't save everyone, though God knows you try. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#humor #humor

I can't get it out," she said. "Just pull at it." "It hurts. It's throbbing." "Pull harder." "I can't! It's truly stuck. I need something to make it slippery. Do you have some sort of lubricant nearby?" "No." "Not anything?" "Much as it may surprise you, we've never needed lubricant in the library before now. ↗

— Lisa Kleypas

#kleypas #lillian #humor

(Sebastian) "See, there you go. You're always looking at me like that." "Like what?" "Like I burn down animal shelters for fun and light my cigarettes with orphans. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#clary-fray #jonathan-morgenstern #lol #sebastian #clary-fray

Reading a novel after reading semiotic theory was like jogging empty-handed after jogging with hand weights. What exquisite guilt she felt, wickedly enjoying narrative! Madeleine felt safe with a nineteenth century novel. There were going to be people in it. Something was going to happen to them in a place resembling the world. Then too there were lots of weddings in Wharton and Austen. There were all kinds of irresistible gloomy men. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#literary-criticism #literary-theory #narrative #nineteenth-century #novels

Can you enter a house uninvited?" "No." "Why?" "That would be rude. ↗

— Abigail Gibbs

#humor #sarcasm #vampire-mythology #violet #humor