#ily

We made love like Tuesday at noon, even though it was Thursday at 3:00, and then again at 3:03. (I have the stamina of a water lily).   ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#fornication #lily #love #sex #love

My sister Emily loved the moors. Flowers brighter than the rose bloomed in the blackest of the heath for her; out of a sullen hollow in a livid hillside her mind could make an Eden. She found in the bleak solitude many and dear delights; and not the least and best-loved was – liberty. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#love

I would far rather have two or three lilies of the valley gathered for me by a person I like, than the most expensive bouquet that could be bought! ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

#elizabeth-gaskell #flowers #friends #lily-of-the-valley #love

And always, I could see that, despite his weakness for her or because of it, he seemed uncatchable, as if he might slip away at any moment. ↗

— Jodi Lynn Anderson

#peter-pan #tiger-lily #weakness #love

Danny couldn't help it, he laughed as he shook his head. "You bit the apple." "I bit the apple," Paul agreed. His eyes glimmered bright blue as tears welled up in them and he gave Danny a soft smile. ↗

— Kele Moon

#gay-romance #happily-ever-after #love #love

Sometimes Peter treated her like she was the only thing in the forest. Sometimes he was so distracted by the things around him that she had to keep up or be left behind. But a lot of times, she knew he did it on purpose, and she didn't have to know why. He seemed to have reasons for doing things even he didn't understand. ↗

— Jodi Lynn Anderson

#peter-pan #tiger-lily #love

Half a page --- and the morning is already ancient. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

#lyrical #family

Garter Man is exceedingly fast! ↗

— Kyle Blair

#family

The sun doesn't just hang on one family's tree ↗

— Anchee Min

#family

It ain't locked, till it's checked! ↗