#romance

She led him past the engine room, which looked like a very dangerous, mechanized jungle gym, with pipes and pistons and tubes jutting from a central bronze sphere. Cables resembling giant metal noodles snaked across the floor and ran up the walls. “How does that thing even work?” Percy asked. “No idea,” Annabeth said. “And I’m the only one besides Leo who can operate it.” “That’s reassuring.” “It should be fine. It’s only threatened to blow up once.” “You’re kidding, I hope.” She smiled. “Come on. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#explosions #heroes-of-olympus #humor #leo-valdez #mechanics

You had this all planned, didn’t you?' I accused. 'Thought you could come in here and seduce me like you do everyone else?' It wasn’t as if I could be angry, lying atop him as I was, but I tried. ↗

— Kim Harrison

#kisten #rachel-morgan #romance #supernatural #vampire

And he took her in his arms and kissed her under the sunlit sky, and he cared not that they stood high upon the walls in the sight of many. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#romance #kiss

I made the decision fifteen years ago that you were my life. My everything. You were with me in my dreams my dark lover my friend and confidant. ↗

— Christine Feehan

#christine-feehan #dark-dream #dark-dreamers #paranormal #romance

I’m not sure sex qualifies as R and R, but it’s a compromise I can live with. ↗

— Shelby Morgen

#erotica #erotica-romance #sci-fi #science-fiction #science

THE MARK OF ATHENA BABY!!!!!! ↗