#lovers

Not much makes me feel uncomfortable about sexuality. It’s the most natural thing in the world. I don’t really get why people make such a stink. It’s like being embarrassed of hunger or thirst. ↗

— Chloe Cole

#conned #erotica #undercover-lovers #nature

Lovers should also have their days off. ↗

— Natalie Clifford Barney

#days #lovers #off #should #their

To a man, sex is the ultimate expression of love. It is pure pleasure. But to a woman there exists something greater than pleasure - gestures of adoration. A gentle caress on the cheek, an attentive smile, a soft kiss while swept away in a slow dance, the whispered words, 'You're beautiful' - these are the tokens of love that women cherish. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#adoration #attention #love #lovers #pleasure

A man when he is making up to anybody can be cordial and gallant and full of little attentions and altogether charming. But when a man is really in love he can't help looking like a sheep. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#humour #love #lovers #sheep #love

Lovers may be and indeed generally are enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations. ↗

— George Byron

#because #friends #generally #indeed #jealousy

Literature has been the salvation of the damned, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the world. ↗

— John Cheever

#case #damned #despair #guided #inspired

This thing with being lovers, it isn't like being married. ↗

— Chris Cleave

#like #lovers #married #thing

We Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness. ↗

— Thucydides

#cultivate #greeks #loss #lovers #manliness

He paused leaning over to lay his lips on hers, “It’s time to feel again. Let me save you from yourself. You were drowning when I found you, but I’m not letting you go, not without a fight.” He kissed her sweetly and moved back standing up and over her. Lena looked up at his out stretched hand. “Take my hand Lena.” He offered and she knew he meant it in a way that went far beyond offering to help her stand. ↗

— Ella Frank

#family-relationships #lovers #family

I just like that dynamic in relationships in movies where they're kind of lovers as rivals, you know? ↗

— Marc Webb

#i #just #kind #know #like