#lovers

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

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

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

— Chris Cleave

#like #lovers #married #thing

Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a huge pantheon expanding into centuries of dynastic drama; fathers and sons, martyred heroes, star-crossed lovers, the deaths of kings - stories that taught us of the danger of hubris and the primacy of humility. ↗

— Tom Hiddleston

#centuries #danger #deaths #drama #expanding

The library door was thick and none of the ordinary sounds that might have reminded them, might have held them back, could reach them. They were beyond the present, outside time, with no memories and no future, ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#lovers #page- #love

And now let us love and take that which is given us, and be happy; for in the grave there is no love and no warmth, nor any touching of the lips. Nothing perchance, or perchance but bitter memories of what might have been. ↗

— H. Rider Haggard

#death #life #love #lovers #mortality

He didn't ask because he didn't wanted to know. If you know, moments die an instant death. She held his hand in hers; hiding them like a pearl; her coral eyes ensconcing his pain. ↗

— Aporva Kala

#death

The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if not to history? ↗

— Katharine Anthony

#go #history #lovers #romance #satisfaction

Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly. ↗

— Rose Franken

#lovers #passionate #real #silly #takes