#cursed

Hunger gnawed at my stomach, but I was afraid someone would be in the kitchen again. So I found myself staring at the front door. Freedom seemed just a doorknob-turn away. When I did open the door, freedom didn't wait — a half-naked Hayden did. ↗

— Jennifer L. Armentrout

#ember #hayden #freedom

There’s something eternal about love and once it starts, it doesn’t stop. There is no controlling it—love does what it wants when it wants. ↗

— H.M. Ward

#demon-kissed #love

Oh you will die and soon because you made the choice to fall in love.” ~Asher Lake ↗

— Shawn Reilly

#cursed #paranormal-romance-series #love

Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#curiosity #cursed #desire #female #female mind

Happy the country that lives on nothing but its wits; cursed be the one that thinks it can get rich by planting or digging or drilling for wealth. ↗

— Bono

#cursed #digging #drilling #get #happy

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine. ↗

— Charles Darwin

#any #become #cursed #evil #i

I've never been good at rock'n'roll songs, anyway; either I'm blessed or I'm cursed, but whatever I write comes out sounding old. ↗

— Justin Townes Earle

#been #blessed #comes #cursed #either

O accursed hunger of gold, to what dost thou not compel human hearts! ↗

— Virgil

#compel #dost #gold #hearts #human

Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain. ↗

— Edmund Waller

#poor #prayed #rain #sailors #shepherds

This and many others only confirmed me in the opinion, planted when I saw the sale of Martha Ann, and growing steadily thereafter, that slavery was an accursed business, and that the sooner my people were relieved of it, the better. ↗

— John Sergeant Wise

#ann #better #business #confirmed #growing