#feather

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Because the heart beats under a covering of hair, of fur, feathers, or wings, it is, for that reason, to be of no account?


Jean Paul


#beats #because #covering #feathers #fur

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.


Helen Keller


#eagle #feather #hand #his #killed

Tilting her face back, he looked into her eyes. They were unfocused, unable to settle on his face. And the same terrifying feeling stole over him once again. An acute fear—a final, painful realization—that her world was one of utter blackness. At last he realized the magnitude of her blindness. He couldn’t imagine never seeing her again. It was like a death, the inevitable conclusion when someone was gone. Why it should hit him now, after all these years, he could not fathom, but it was there, and finally he understood her private hell. He’d told her he would die without sight. Selfish, arrogant bastard, concerned with his own needs, his own perversions to watch himself pleasure her, to study her as she accepted him, to watch their bodies joined. How carelessly he had said that, not thinking of Elizabeth and what she would die for. What she wanted in this life.


Charlotte Featherstone


#elizabeth #iain #temptation-and-twilight #death

Matty,” Jane whispered, “what are you thinking?” He smiled, kissed her navel before glancing up at her. “Barbaric thoughts.” “You’re very pleased with yourself, aren’t you?” He laughed and slid up the length of her body. “I am. It’s such a powerful visual to know that my seed is responsible for the life within you and the incredibly arousing changes in your body. “And, I, of course, have nothing to do with it?” “Jane,” he whispered, “let me have my moment of male glory.


Charlotte Featherstone


#jane #matthew #sinful-epilogue #change

In Rio Bravo when Duke makes love to Feathers, the scene dissolves to the next morning where we see him putting on his vest and almost humming. It was subtle, but you knew what happened. Give me a towel and some blankets any day!


Angie Dickinson


#any #blankets #bravo #day #dissolves

I told you you’d come", said a nearby voice, one Isobel knew well. "You said you would." (…) "You shouldn’t have, though", he said, and looked up, his face twisted with anger. "Even if we knew you would, you shouldn’t have." He got up and began moving toward her. "Why", he growled, "when we will only show you we are not worth it? Why, when we have no other choice but to prove to you we’re not worth it?


Kelly Creagh


#isobel #pinfeathers #varen #anger

Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.


Jean Paul


#birthdays #broad #feathers #our #time

The only thing I have done religiously in my life is keep a journal. I have hundreds of them, filled with feathers, flowers, photographs, and words - without locks, open on my shelves.


Terry Tempest Williams


#feathers #filled #flowers #hundreds #i

Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.


Maya Angelou


#does #early #early stages #feather #hardens

A willing heart adds feather to the heel.


Joanna Baillie


#feather #heart #heel #willing