#rot

I suggest you...Fuck." Even if it was an invitation, I doubt I would have been able to take her up on it just then. Inspiring as she could be in bed, I just didn't have it in me at the moment. ↗

— Douglas Hulick

#inspirational

I’ve never been in love,” I admitted. “I’m scared of losing me to be with you. ↗

— Emma Nichols

#romance-sexy #love

When I look at each of my brothers, I see two things. First, I see the next place I want to leave a rosy welt. Second, I see a good man who will always be there, no matter how hard life gets for me or him. Then, I get out of the way because I realize he’s coming at me with a wet dish towel. ↗

— Dan Pearce

#brotherhood #brotherly-love #brothers #love

You’re not pathetic. Actually, I envy you a little.” “Because I’m a mess?” Zach asked dryly. “No. Because you’re not afraid to be a mess. ↗

— Julie James

#cade #zach #love

I never would have conceived that he would finally succumb to marriage. How did you ever convince him?” “I must actually credit Lady Russell. She explained to me that a man desires above all things to think himself his own master. Thus, I had only to convince Marcus that marrying me was entirely his own idea.” -A BREACH OF PROMISE ↗

— Victoria Vane

#erotic-romance #historical-romance #marriage

We don't persuade our neighbors by mimicking their angry power-protests. We persuade them by holding fast to the gospel, by explaining our increasingly odd view of marriage, and by serving the world and our neighbors around us, as our Lord does, with a towel and a foot-bucket. ↗

— Russell Moore

#politics #protest #marriage

Nothing stayed, nothing ever changed. But love, only love, that was the true part of the story, no matter what the beginning, middle or end. ↗

— Selena Kitt

#erotic-romance #erotica #love #love-story #lovers

She squeezed her eyes shut. “No.” “Excuse me?” She sniffed, opened her eyes then looked up. “No. I don’t wish you to leave.” His eyes changed from lukewarm to hot. The iron of the seat met her back. Oh yes, definitely she was the keeper at the zoo and she’d just offered her own leg, medium-rare, to the lion. ↗

— Cari Silverwood

#erotic-romance #historical-romance #change

To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men. ↗

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#activism #free-speech #justice #principles #protest

Divination is the quest to understand more about the past, present, and future. In other words, Tarot readings are an attempt to understand ourselves better and discover how we might live better in the future. ↗

— Theresa Francis-Cheung

#inspirational #tarot #inspirational