#oman

Surely--But I am very off from that. From surely. From indeed. From the decent arrow that was my clean naivete and my faith. This morning, men deliver wounds and death. They will deliver death and wounds tomorrow. And I doubt all. You. Or a violet. ↗

— Gwendolyn Brooks

#romance #war #death

My husband does so many romantic things for me, it's absurd. ↗

— Jennifer Beals

#does #husband #many #me #romantic

If a man or woman has something redone it is because he or she can no longer live with that part of their body, it is no longer bearable. Either they get help and find the strength to fight or they proceed with the act. ↗

— Emmanuelle Beart

#bearable #because #body #either #fight

Soft sun shone down on a misty cathedral at the opposite end of a football-field length courtyard. The cathedral had a long pointed tower with beautiful rose and ivory stained glass windows. Pink-petal flowers and deep green ivy climbed the stones from the ground to it’s roof. A large fountain stood in the middle of the courtyard with water falling from several lion’s heads. Between the misty air and rolling slope of the earth, the grounds reminded me of a long lost fairy tale. ↗

— Priya Ardis

#coming-of-age #e-books #ebooks #fairy-tales #heroic-fantasy

No Roman ever was able to say, 'I dined last night with the Borgias'. ↗

— Max Beerbohm

#dined #ever #i #last #last night

Clothes should look as if a woman was born into them. It is a form of possession, this belonging to one another. ↗

— Geoffrey Beene

#belonging #born #clothes #form #into

I'm not about to talk about what's romantic in my life - I figure if you talk about it once - then that's an open invitation for everyone to dig into your personal life even further. ↗

— James Van Der Beek

#dig #even #everyone #figure #further

But he was here. In my bed. His body warm and hard and feeling so much like home that I ached. ↗

— Julie Bale

#new-adult-contemporary-romance #the-stillness-of-you #beauty

I never thought of Kim Basinger in terms of age. For me she embodies woman with her subtleties and intricacies. She's sensual and intellectually engaging, elegant with a very strong personal style. ↗

— Camilla Belle

#elegant #embodies #engaging #her #i

... the first few minutes of a person's death are the most vitally important minutes of opportunity for a necromancer, [so] Cabal added, "Look, I have to go. Without the necessary chemicals, we'll lose whatever wits are still floating around his cooling brain. The only more immediate alternative that I can think of is a Tantric ritual involving necrophiliac sodomy and, frankly, I don't think my back is up to it. So, if you will excuse me? ↗

— Jonathan L. Howard

#ritual #science #death