#scarlet

Mary and Carrie and baby Grace and Ma had all had scarlet fever. The Nelsons across the creek had had it too, so there had been no one to help Pa and Laura. ↗

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

#baby #been #carrie #creek #fever

And I'm slightly in love with Scarlett Johansson: she's just stunning. And she's bright, which is incredibly sexy. ↗

— Daniel Radcliffe

#i #incredibly #just #love #scarlett

Apes are apes, though clothed in scarlet. ↗

— Ben Jonson

#scarlet #though

I knew they would kill me when they found out, but…” He struggled for words, releasing a sharp breath. “I think I realized that I would rather die because I betrayed them, than live because I betrayed you. ↗

— Marissa Meyer

#choice #emotions #friendship #love #scarlet

Love makes you stupid. Love makes you weak. Love will kill you all one day, and it’s going to kill you today. ↗

— J.X. Burros

#love #scarlet-spotlight #vampire #death

Hers was the perfect love that dwells on the other's happiness, and not on its own. She knew that, though for the time being he would find bliss and oblivion in her arms, he would soon repine in inactivity whilst others fought for that which he held sublime. ↗

— Emmuska Orczy

#diogenes #laughing-cavalier #scarlet-pimpernel #series #love

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

She, at least, ought to have known that he was wearing a mask, and having found that out, she should have torn it from his face, whenever they were alone together....Her love for him had been paltry and weak, easily crushed by her own pride ↗

— Emmuska Orczy

#love

One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#nature

What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence...The question is, what can you make people believe that you have done? ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#mystery #sherlock-holmes #sherlock-holmes