#tempo

Charlee has my arm. She has my arm—my arm that’s rigid from pleasure, from her touch—in her little fingers. She holds my other one, too and she’s right there, that sweet candy perfume stripping the rest of the strength from my body, and it escapes in a soft, breathy sigh. ↗

— Rebecca Berto

#fiction #love-story #na #new-adult #romance

Truthfully, from the moment in front of the Chagall, you had me Norah. Until that moment, I didn’t know moments like that existed between a man and a woman. I felt breathless, unhinged and lost, all in one split second because you deterred my future with just one look. You have no idea how completely floored I felt that a girl could so instantly take all my control and direction and all that I knew to be normal, and turn it completely and utterly upside down. ↗

— Angela Richardson

#love #romance #love

In his arms, I slowly unfolded like a love note read in secret. ↗

— Jill S. Alexander

#young-adult #love

Wow,” she said. “Do you realise how wonderful you sound?” “Yes, I do,” he said with a firm nod. “And I think I’m underappreciated. ↗

— Robyn Carr

#cute #funny #humour #romance #romantic

Isn’t he cute? That he thinks he has a sense of humour? ↗

— Robyn Carr

#funny #humour #romance #funny

The way contemporary literature is emerging, soon we can expect "Item poetry" in novels. ↗

— Himmilicious

#literary-criticism #literature-quotes #literary-criticism

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#condition #defeated #giving #giving up #makes

It seems to me that any sensible person must see that violence does not change the world and if it does, then only temporarily. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#change #change the world #does #me #must

I put a metronome up to all the songs, and I tried to really keep it true to the original tempos. ↗

— Brian Setzer

#i tried #keep #metronome #original #put

I never had ambitions to see how rich I could get. I got a lot of contemporaries that that's their ambition, and I don't know very many of them that are happy. ↗

— Caroll Shelby

#contemporaries #could #get #got #had