#norm

He’s jealous because lions are better hunters.”--Monroe “Are you compensating for something, Monroe?” --Bastian ↗

— Bethany Averie

#fairy-tales #fantasy #paranormal #romance #love

This isn't television! This isn't a movie! Giles and Buffy aren't gonna appear and show us how to deal with our wonderful new powers! Some fricking owl isn't gonna come sailing in through your window from Hogwarts! There's no Dumbledore! The Cullens aren't gonna show up and invite you to live with them in Forks! There's nothing! This isn't make believe! This is it! It's us and only us. ↗

— Robin Benway

#inspirational #paranormal #sister-bond #humor

With my ninth mind I resurrect my first and dance slow to the music of my soul made new. ↗

— Aberjhani

#inspirational-quotes #modern-authors #music #paranormal #parapsychology

I am anchored on a resolve you cannot shake. My heart, my conscience shall dispose of my hand -- they only. Know this at last. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#conscience #courtship #dignity #empowerment #feminism

Strong isn't about not being afraid, Caitlin. It's about facing what you're scared of. ↗

— Lindsay J. Pryor

#inspirational #inspirational-quotes #paranormal #paranormal-romance #paranormal-romance-series

As an artist in the 1960s, Norman Sunshine was able to maintain a moderately out lifestyle. But when the first exhibition of his paintings in New York brought on a profile in The New York Times in 1968, he was photographed in the apartment that he admitted sharing with Shayne. At both his advertising agency and Shayne’s television production company, the article was met with absolute silence. ↗

— Norman Sunshine

#double-life #gay-marriage #love-story #norman-sunshine #love

Do you really believe ... that everything historians tell us about men – or about women – is actually true? You ought to consider the fact that these histories have been written by men, who never tell the truth except by accident. ↗

— Moderata Fonte

#double-standards #feminism #gender #history #hypocrisy

In fact, there is perhaps only one human being in a thousand who is passionately interested in his job for the job's sake. The difference is that if that one person in a thousand is a man, we say, simply, that he is passionately keen on his job; if she is a woman, we say she is a freak. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#clichés #double-standards #empowerment #feminism #gender

The rule seemed to be that a great woman must either die unwed ... or find a still greater man to marry her. ... The great man, on the other hand, could marry where he liked, not being restricted to great women; indeed, it was often found sweet and commendable in him to choose a woman of no sort of greatness at all. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#choice #clichés #double-standards #empowerment #feminism

He gives me the stare that only men can do. The mouth tightening exasperation stare. ↗

— Poppet

#vampire-romance #men