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The purchases of courteous Dr. Fell over his months in Florence would not have totaled more than one hundred lire, but the fragrances and essences were chosen and combined with a sensibility startling and gratifying to these scent merchants, who live by the nose. It was to preserve this pleasure that Dr. Lecter had not altered his own nose with rhinoplasty other than external collagen injections. For him the air was painted with scents as distinct and vivid as colors, and he could layer and feather them as though painting wet-on-wet. Here there was nothing of jail. Here the air was music. Here were pale tears of frankincense awaiting extraction, yellow bergamot, sandalwood, cinnamon and mimosa in concert, over the sustaining ground notes of genuine ambergris, civet, castor from the beaver, and essence of the musk deer. Dr. Lecter sometimes entertained the illusion that he could smell with his hands, his arms and cheeks, that odor suffused him. That he could smell with his face and his heart. ↗


— Thomas Harris Hannibal


#suspence-romance #thriller #music

She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning. ↗


— Jane Austen


#nature

I comfort myself with the reflection that your wife will possibly be able to curb your desire--I admit, a natural one for the most part--to exterminate your fellows. ↗


— Georgette Heyer


#nature

Although he assumed she’d naturally submit to him, he obviously believed she was still her own person. A strong person. ↗


— Cherise Sinclair


#erotic #erotic-romance #nature

I found something! Courage--just that; courage as a rule of life and something to cling to always. ↗


— F. Scott Fitzgerald


#courage-in-love #courageous #fitzgerald #gatsby #inspirational

Yes, I have a romantic nature; it is a character flaw which should be viewed with pity, not derision. ↗


— Andrew Levkoff


#romantic #nature

I'm falling in love with you." As the words left his mouth, his lips pressed to mine, giving me the most intense and explosive kiss I had ever had. With the coldness of his lips and the warmth of his tongue beneath mine I saw fireworks and felt them through every part of my body. ↗


— Magan Vernon


#kiss #romance #young-adult #dating

I’m always the one who doesn’t have a date, the one guys walk up to and say, “So, is your friend, you know, with someone?” and I may not be the only girl without someone, but it feels like it sometimes. A lot of the time. ↗


— Elizabeth Scott


#teenagers #young-adult #young-adult-romance #dating

Three things Marco taught me today race through my mind: boys will lie to your face just to have sex with you, don’t trust any boy who says I love you, and never date a boy who lives on the south side of Fairfield. ↗


— Simone Elkeles


#young-adult-fiction #young-adult-romance #dating

Payne sought clarification. “Vertical or horizontal?” “Horizontal, of course.” “Sorry but I can’t help you.” “Will you pipe down for a minute? Naturally she was dead since I work at a cemetery. Her face struck a chord though. So, I rummaged around in the old Rory memory bank, and Emily is what rings a bell. Didn’t we go to school with an Emily? Tenth or eleventh grade, if I recall it correctly. ↗


— Ed Lynskey


#crime-fiction #mystery #romance #suspense #thriller






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