#oman

You're smart and sexy. You're prudent and courageous. You're a good girl and a bad girl. You're a waffle girl and a Napoleon cake girl. I've told you before that you can have it all. You don't have to put yourself in a box, Grace, because you're already the whole package. -Ethan Castle ↗

— Stephanie Draven

#romance #courage

Hermione turned and beamed at Harry; her eyes, too, were full of tears. ‘…then I declare you bonded for life. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#hermione-granger #love #romance #death

My courage is faith--faith in the eternal resilience of me--that joy'll come back, and hope and spontaneity. And I feel that till it does I've got to keep my lips shut and my chin high and my eyes wide--not necessarily any silly smiling. Oh, I've been through hell without a whine quite often--and the female hell is deadlier than the male. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#faith #fitzgerald #gatsby #inspirational #inspirational-quotess

A biblical woman embraces God's callings, chooses wisely, lives courageously, and expects God's greater reward. ↗

— Shaunti Feldhahn

#christian-woman #inspirational #courage

Ah! Thou gifest me such hope and courage, and I haf nothing to gif back but a full heart and these empty hands," cried the Professor, quite overcome. Jo never, never would learn to be proper, for when he said that as they stood upon the steps, she just put both hands into his, whispering tenderly, "Not empty now," and, stooping down, kissed her Friedrich under the umbrella. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#love #rain #romance #courage

She knew all about love—that beautiful, exquisitely painful but precious journey. ↗

— Mary Hart Perry

#love #romance #beauty

The sign of a true woman isn't the ability to recite French poetry or play the pianoforte or cook Chateaubriand. The sign of a true woman is learning to listen to her own voice even when society does its best to drown it out. ↗

— Eve Marie Mont

#romantic #woman #beauty

Nevertheless, now that I have met you, I know that all that I am, and all that I have, could not match what you are worth. ↗

— Mercedes Lackey

#beauty

There is not only one measure of beauty, Lanore. Everyone adores the red rose, and yet it is a common sort of beauty. You are like a golden rose, a rare bloom but no less lovely. ↗

— Alma Katsu

#beauty

And don't stress about the trip. We'll find some alone time in London," he continued, bending his head closer to mine. "Nothing keeps 007 from romancing a beautiful woman. ↗

— Cassidy Calloway

#romance #secrets-of-a-first-daughter #beauty