#domestic

I have been seeing dragons again. Last night, hunched on a beaver dam, one held a body like a badly held cocktail; his tail, keeping the beat of a waltz, sent a morse of ripples to my canoe. They are not richly bright but muted like dawns or the vague sheen on a fly's wing. Their old flesh drags in folds as they drop into grey pools, strain behind a tree. Finally the others saw one today, trapped, tangled in our badminton net. The minute eyes shuddered deep in the creased face while his throat, strangely fierce, stretched to release an extinct burning inside: pathetic loud whispers as four of us and the excited spaniel surrounded him. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

#humour #magic-realism #mythical-beasts #life

The collar represented something of big importance to her. He knew she saw it as losing who she was. He saw it as her trusting him enough to let him be in charge. ↗

— Starla Kaye

#domestic-discipline #erotic-romance #romance #erotic-romance

A man shouldn’t assume his wife was happy just because she didn’t complain all the time. She had complained this morning. He’d spanked her for it. That didn’t sit right somehow. ↗

— Starla Kaye

#erotic-romance #romance #spanking #erotic-romance

As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children. ↗

— John Adams

#birds #children #converse #domestic #heroes

'm thrilled to be joining the incredible team at ABC News. Being asked to anchor 'This Week' and the superb tradition started by David Brinkley, is a tremendous and rare honor, and I look forward to discussing the great domestic and international issues of the day. ↗

— Christiane Amanpour

#abc news #anchor #asked #being #david

Today the Western powers and media want to domesticate us like sheep, to keep us tame and domesticated. ↗

— Abu Bakar Bashir

#keep #like #media #powers #sheep

On energy, we should be exploring for domestic sources of energy. ↗

— Marsha Blackburn

#energy #exploring #should #sources

Although native Africans domesticated some plants in the Sahel and in Ethiopia and in tropical West Africa, they acquired valuable domestic animals only later, from the north. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#africa #although #domestic #domesticated #ethiopia

Domestic inflation reflects domestic monetary policy. ↗

— Martin Feldstein

#inflation #monetary #monetary policy #policy #reflects

The price of imported oil in the US doubled between summer 2003 and summer 2005, reducing consumers' purchasing power by more than 1 per cent of gross domestic product. ↗

— Martin Feldstein

#cent #consumers #domestic #doubled #gross