#rain

Stay." The strangled word, spoken in anguish, tore at her heart, ripped through her resolve. She swiped at the tears raining over her cheeks and slowly turned, forcing the painful truth past her lips. "I can't stay. I can no longer give you what you want. I can't give you a son." Dallas stepped off the veranda and extended a bouquet of wildflowers toward her. "Then stay and give me what I need." Her heart lurched at the abundance of flowers wilting within his smothering grasp. She shook her head vigorously. "You don't need me. There are a dozen eligible women in Leighton who would happily give you a son and within the month there will be at least a dozen more—" "I'll never love any of them as much as I love you. I know that as surely as I know the sun will come up in the morning." Her breath caught, her trembling increased, words lodged in her throat. He loved her? She watched as he swallowed. "I know I'm not an easy man. I don't expect you to ever love me, but if you'll tolerate me, I give you my word that I'll do whatever it takes to make you happy—" Quickly stepping forward, she pressed her shaking fingers against his warm lips. "My God, don't you know that I love you? Why do you think I'm leaving? I'm leaving because I do love you—so much. Dallas, I want you to have your dream, I want you to have your son." Closing his eyes, he laid his roughened hand over hers where it quivered against his lips and pressed a kiss against the heart of her palm. "I can't promise that I won't have days when I'll look toward the horizon and feel the aching emptiness that comes from knowing we'll never have a child to pass our legacy on to…"Opening his eyes, he captured her gaze. "But I know the emptiness you'll leave behind will eat away at me every minute of every day." -Dallas and Dee ↗

— Lorraine Heath

#dee #lorraine-heath #texas-glory #dreams

I think I'm still trying to find my feet as an actor. And I know it ain't brain surgery, but it confuses me and it comes between me and my sleep a lot. ↗

— Colin Farrell

#between #brain #brain surgery #comes #confuses

The Leadership Training Institute of America is a cultural think tank providing training and opportunity in leadership development and cultural dynamics. ↗

— Michael Burgess

#cultural #development #dynamics #institute #leadership

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#folly #greatest #liberty #madness #possible

The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#catching #miss #only #sure #train

He isn't a real boss until he has trained subordinates to shoulder most of his responsibilities. ↗

— William Feather

#his #most #real #responsibilities #shoulder

I think the sexiest thing on anybody is intelligence. I respect somebody who has a brain and wants to use it more than a pretty face and status. ↗

— Sophia Bush

#brain #face #i #i think #intelligence

When I started training, I just started running every day, which you shouldn't do. I learned that lesson the hard way by getting a stress fracture. ↗

— Sophia Bush

#every #every day #getting #hard #hard way

God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met. ↗

— Farrah Fawcett

#brain #combination #easily #ever #femininity

The left side of my brain is telling me I want to sleep with every woman in the world and the other side of my brain is telling me I met this great girl and if I let that go I'm going to regret it. ↗

— Scott Caan

#every #girl #go #going #great