#roman

After joyfully working each morning, I would leave off around midday to challenge myself to a footrace. Speeding along the sunny paths of the Jardin du Luxembourg, ideas would breed like aphids in my head—for creative invention is easy and sublime when air cycles quickly through the lungs and the body is busy at noble tasks. ↗

— Roman Payne

#health #jardin-du-luxembourg #nobility #noble #paris

I haven't slept with him, Mom." I whispered, lying through my teeth. I just didn't want to discuss my sex life with her. She would probably critique my oral skills or something. "I should have known. You don't sleep with anybody. That's why you can't keep a man. ↗

— L.D. Davis

#new-adult-romance #life

Give love, take pride ↗

— Benny Bellamacina

#love #philosophy #romance #wisdom #life

The very essence of romance is uncertainty. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#romance #love

Scent is the strongest tie to memory. ↗

— Maggie Stiefvater

#love #romance #love

Three years? That's a thousand tomorrows, ma'am. ↗

— Karen Kingsbury

#bull-rider #cf #grief #horses #karen

Death, everyone fears it in one way or another but when I stood in front of it myself, face to face, I felt no fear. ↗

— Atarah L. Poling

#fear #romance-novels #death

Moments, when lost, can't be found again. They're just gone. ↗

— Jenny Han

#love #missed-chances #romance #love

I love you, Daisy. I love you so much I hurt. ↗

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#marriage #romance #love

É quase dia; desejara que já tivesses ido, não mais longe porém, do que a travessa menina deixa o meigo passarinho que das mãos ela solta - tal qual pobre prisioneiro na corda bem torcida - para logo puxá-lo novamente pelo fio de seda, tão ciumenta e amorosa é de sua liberdade. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#romantically-honest #inspirational