#charles

She crawled on top of him, naked and warm and soft, smelling like a miracle that had saved him from a lifetime of aloneness. ↗

— Patricia Briggs

#alpha-and-omega #anna #charles #couple #love

If I may so express it, I was steeped in Dora. I was not merely over head and ears in love with her, but I was saturated through and through. Enough love might have been wrung out of me, metaphorically speaking, to drown anybody in; and yet there would have remained enough within me, and all over me, to pervade my entire existence. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#david-copperfield #dora #love #love

If you love the Lord, live as if you loved him. Let us all try to do so; and let us watch that we never undo with our hands what we say with our tongues. ↗

— Charles Spurgeon

#charles #love

…some bits of Dickens-books with which latter I am long familiar and long enamored for the restful falseness of their sentiment and the pungent appetizing charm of their villains. ↗

— Mary MacLane

#biography

What do you mean?” Leslie’s voice was cool, as if she questioned witches who were flat on their backs being threatened by werewolves every day. ↗

— Patricia Briggs

#charles-cornick #humor #interrogation #leslie #werewolves

Roman's wife Sharon Tate had been murdered by Charles Manson the year before, but Roman had been through so much leaving the Warsaw ghetto that he was very strong and private. ↗

— Francesca Annis

#before #charles #ghetto #had #leaving

Even, she thought, even without the gift of witchsight, there was more beauty to be found in the world than could ever be snared in language or music. And with the sight... ↗

— Charles de Lint

#into-the-green #beauty

My mother was a modern woman with a limited interest in religion. When the sun set and the fast of the Day of Atonement ended, she shot from the synagogue like a rocket to dance the Charleston. ↗

— Lionel Blue

#charleston #dance #day #ended #fast

I live on the other side of Charles Darwin and I can no longer see human light as having been created perfect and falling into sin, I see us rather emerging into higher and higher levels of consciousness and higher and higher levels of complication. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

#charles #complication #consciousness #created #darwin

Prince Charles is an absolute Mountbatten. The real intelligence in the royal family comes through my parents to Prince Philip and the children. ↗

— Lord Mountbatten

#charles #children #comes #family #intelligence