#romance

From THE VIRGIN HUNTRESS coming June 29, 2012: "I used to watch the stallions leaping the mares." "You what!" Hew almost choked. "Well, how else is a girl with no mother supposed to get any education? Although I doubt Mama would have told me very much. So there's really no reason to be timid, Hew. I already know all about the mating process. And to the best of my knowledge, the stallions never 'ignored it until it went away. ↗

— Victoria Vane

#education

Prostitution was illegal in Kenya and was culturally a taboo. But what was a young orphaned girl with little education to do when she had to fend for three of her younger siblings? As she watched the waves hit the shores, she noticed a young handsome man staring at her from a distance. ↗

— Nya Wampaze

#bwwm #interracial-marriage #interracial-romance #education

I was afraid. Of getting hurt in other ways. To be truthful, I still am." His thumb stroked her cheek. "I would never hurt you." "I don't think you can promise me that." She squeezed his bruised fingers. "But it makes things a bit more equal, to know that I can hurt you, too." His gaze fell to her lips. He said simply, without any trace of irony, "You are killing me. ↗

— Tessa Dare

#romance #equality

And I wake up happy, baby, because I possess beauty and I own that beauty in all the forms it can take and the least important of those are physical. ↗

— Kristen Ashley

#beauty #knight #love #possessive #romance

Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#calm #love #love is #romance #tempestuous

But pearls are for tears, the old legend says," Gilbert had objected. "I'm not afraid of that. And tears can be happy as well as sad. My very happiest moments have been when I had tears in my eyes—when Marilla told me I might stay at Green Gables—when Matthew gave me the first pretty dress I ever had—when I heard that you were going to recover from the fever. So give me pearls for our troth ring, Gilbert, and I'll willingly accept the sorrow of life with its joy." -Anne ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#happiness #pearls #romance #tears #dreams

Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life. ↗

— Bette Davis

#after #beginning #durable #flooded #great

It's nice that there are movies and songs about romance - it's what motivates us as human beings. I'm all for being brainwashed by rom-coms. ↗

— Zooey Deschanel

#being #beings #brainwashed #human #human beings

I don't want to think about the danger, the life changing events that have fallen into our lives. I just want to live in this moment, right here, right now. ↗

— Brandy Nacole

#emma #inspirational #romance #change

Why is everything always my decision?" I asked. Because you will not tolerate anything else." Oh, I remembered now. "Great", I whispered. - Anita to Jean-Claude ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#anita-blake #fiction #hunter #jean-claude #paranormal