#rot

I take my time because I love how it feels to carry her, the way she needs me, the way I need to protect her. ↗

— Jessica Sorensen

#kayden-and-callie #need #protect #love

Love will find a way against time itself. ↗

— Sylvia Day

#historical-romance #regency-romance #vampire-romance #love

He did not blame them. Because in truth, that's what he did, what he was. Seduce and dominate. Charm and manipulate. A user of women. How they would scoff, Rothbury mused bitterly, if they knew that he was secretly in love with the silly little chit, spectacles and all. ↗

— Olivia Parker

#romance #rothbury #to-wed-a-wicked-earl #love

People Should not be protected from the world.. -It cripples them. ↗

— Josephine Humphreys

#life #people #protection #rich-in-love #world

His sister liked to think of herself as Lord Tywin with teats, but she was wrong. Their father had been as relentless and implacable as a glacier, where Cercei was all wildfire, especially when thwarted. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#lannisters-rocks #wildfire #love

Maybe I'll paint you white. Fuck. You'd love that, woudn't you? Have my come all over your body. ↗

— K.I. Lynn

#romance #love

olivia reminds me of a bird sometimes, how her feathers get all ruffled when she's mad. and when she's fragile like this, she's a little lost bird looking for its nest. ↗

— R.J. Palacio

#home #love #protection #rj-palacio #wonder

Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do? ↗

— Jerry Brown

#prisons #protect #punish

And that reminds me, Mama! I have just intercepted another of that puppy’s floral offerings to my sister. This billet was attached to it.” (Charles) ↗

— Georgette Heyer

#love #overprotective-brothers #love

Lovers are not snails; they don't have to protrude from their shells and meet each other halfway. Meet me within your own self. ↗

— Jerzy Kosiński

#identity #isolation #love #lovers #relationships