#w

More than men had died at Lincoln. It seemed to Stephen that reality was a casualty, too, for nothing made sense anymore. What was he doing here in the solar of Lincoln Castle, bleeding all over the Earl of Chester’s wife? ↗

— Sharon Kay Penman

#men

I seen hundreds of men come by on the road an’ on the ranches, with their bindles on their back an’ that same damn thing in their heads . . . every damn one of ’em’s got a little piece of land in his head. An’ never a God damn one of ’em ever gets it. Just like heaven. Ever’body wants a little piece of lan’. I read plenty of books out here. Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#heaven #land #migrants #men

It seems to Henry, as he takes his seat in his usual middle pew, that women are far braver than men ↗

— Elizabeth Strout

#women #men

A woman's body is the gate to this life. A man's body is the gate to the next life. ↗

— Louise Erdrich

#next-life #otherworld #underworld #women #men

You alone in Europe are not ancient oh Christianity The most modern European is you Pope Pius X And you whom the windows observe shame keeps you From entering a church and confessing this morning You read the prospectuses the catalogues the billboards that sing aloud That's the poetry this morning and for the prose there are the newspapers There are the 25 centime serials full of murder mysteries Portraits of great men and a thousand different headlines ("Zone") ↗

— Guillaume Apollinaire

#billboard #catalogs #church #city #confession

Men write great romance because they have more at stake ↗

— P.J. Bayliss

#writing #men

In elke man schuilt de vrouw die hij graag aan zijn zijde heeft. ↗

— Ignace Dermaux

#vrouw #women-and-men #men

This book belongs to the most rare of men. Perhaps not one of them is yet alive. First the day after tomorrow must come for me. Some men are born posthumously. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#books #born #men #posthumous #tomorrow

What kind of world have we built when it is more acceptable to ask for sex than a cuddle session? … Have we so stripped our sexuality of inherent value that it becomes the sacrificial lamb on the altar of connection, because everything else is too precious to risk? I'm the first one to say that my body is an amusement park, and I like to have fun with it – and let other people ride it – but there is still a divinity in it. It is no less precious than our fears, our smiles, our hopes, our tears. And this goes not just for women, but for all people. I've known men and dominants who felt they could be vulnerable only during sex, and so they would ask for that instead of talking about what was bothering them, or even simply as a distraction from their own thoughts and troubles. ↗

— Kacie Cunningham

#hugs #self-worth #sex #sexuality #men

Lara [Raith] was gorgeous, brilliant, and sexier than a Swedish bikini team hiking up a mountain of money. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#money