#scarlet

We met less than a week ago and in that time I've done nothing but lie and cheat and betray you. I know. But if you give me a chance...all I want is to protect you. To be near you. For as long as I'm able. ↗

— Marissa Meyer

#chances #friendship #intstalove-done-right #lies #love

I had a dresser who literally squeezed me in like Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With The Wind. ↗

— Glenn Close

#gone #gone with the wind #had #hara #i

Apes are apes, though clothed in scarlet. ↗

— Ben Jonson

#scarlet #though

I have so often been asked the question: "But how did you come to think of The Scarlet Pimpernel?" And my answer has always been: "It was God's will that I should." And to you moderns, who perhaps do not believe as I do, I will say, "In the chain of my life, there were so many links, all of which tended towards bringing me to the fulfillment of my destiny. ↗

— Emmuska Orczy

#chain-of-life #destiny #god #god-s-will #life

There is within me a knot of cruelty borne by the stream of love, much as our blood sometimes bears the seed of our destruction ... ↗

— James Hurst

#hurst #ibis #james #knot #love

How you, a weak boy caught in the middle of a storm, both in reality and metaphorically, would risk your life to save some girl—some girl who tortured you, ignored you, destroyed you. ↗

— J.X. Burros

#scarlet-spotlight #vampire #love

That boy is still here...He's just waiting for that girl to come back ↗

— J.X. Burros

#scarlet-spotlight #love

Love gives you the strength to face an army, vampire or human...Love gives you a reason to press on through the storm. Love helps you think clearly and follow the clues ahead, if you know where they lead. ↗

— J.X. Burros

#scarlet-spotlight #vampire #love

A tiny radish of passionate scarlet, tipped modestly in white. ↗

— Clementine Paddleford

#passionate #scarlet #tiny #tipped #white

I really don't know why Scarlett has such appeal. When I began writing the sequel, I had a lot of trouble because Scarlett is not my kind of person. She's virtually illiterate, has no taste, never learns from her mistakes. ↗

— Alexandra Ripley

#because #began #had #her #i