#rot

Gallows humor is part of having a doctor in the house. Deal with it. ↗

— J.R. Ward

#humor #lover-enshrined #medicine #humor

I don't want anything to happen to you. You being hurt...that thought fills me with dread. I can't promise not to interfere, not if I think you'll come to harm." He pauses and takes a deep breath. "I love you, Anastasia. I will do everything in my power to protect you. I cann't imagine my life without you. ↗

— E.L. James

#harm #hurt #imagine #life #love

Fear can be a potent aphrodisiac. ↗

— Kele Moon

#erotic-romance #fear #love #love

Being with Mary was different because...he wasn't the only one who wanted to make love to her. The beast wanted her, too. The beast wanted out so it could take her. ↗

— J.R. Ward

#love

If I breathe you in and you breathe me out, I swear we can breathe forever. I swear I’ll find summer in your winter and spring in your autumn and always, hands at the ends of your fingers, arms at the ends of your shoulders and I swear, when we run out of forever, when we run out of air, your name will be the last word that my lungs make air for. ↗

— Iain Thomas

#love #lovers #romantic #love

He was too explosive for her to touch him so intimately. It would lead to the wrong things. And places he'd banned himself from. As her protector, he had to stay away from her. That was how it worked. This, he could not stray from. Not again. Even if it killed him. ↗

— Jennifer Lowery

#discipline #love #lust #protection #romance

You look like a puppy. Like I'm jingling my keys and you're jumping by the door waiting for your walk" "Woof. ↗

— Maggie Stiefvater

#sam-roth #sam

When you really thought about it crying was a rather bizarre thing for any creature to be capable of. What purpose did it serve other than revealing too much? ↗

— Kitty Thomas

#bizarre

Nowadays, you can do anything that you want—anal, oral, fisting—but you need to be wearing gloves, condoms, protection. ↗

— Slavoj Žižek

#condoms #fisting #liberalism #oral-sex #protection

The world would not be in such a snarl, had Marx been Groucho instead of Karl. ↗

— Irving Berlin

#karl-marx #marx-brothers #marxism #communism