#showers

To live for the hope of something isn’t really living at all, and so, like a child putting away its toys and picking up a tool, he marched to Lyca’s bathroom, to shower off the stench of failure, soap up the death of hope, then wash away the ashes of his love for Daphne. ↗

— Mark A. Rayner

#ashes #child #crush #death #fail

They, astounded at the flash of the armor, and the swiftness of the charge, and attacked by showers of arrows and missiles, half naked as they were, never stopped to resist but gave way. ↗

— Arrian

#arrows #astounded #attacked #charge #flash

He took my hand and held it against his chest, "Feel that? It beats for you. ↗

— Karli Perrin

#june #love #na #new-adult #romance

I'm not the type to cut back on hot showers, but there's no harm in hot water when it's warmed by the sun. ↗

— Julia Louis-Dreyfus

#cut #harm #hot #hot water #i

Kind words are a creative force, a power that concurs in the building up of all that is good, and energy that showers blessings upon the world. ↗

— Lawrence G. Lovasik

#building #creative #creative force #energy #force

We used to get one room and we'd park the vehicle outside, everybody would all take showers and we'd steal towels because we knew we wasn't gonna have enough towels for all five of us to shower. ↗

— Buck Owens

#enough #everybody #five #get #gonna