#fire

You’re different,” he said, touching my face. Of course I was. The man I loved had killed for me. A lot of things became inconsequential after a sacrifice like that. ↗

— Sylvia Day

#erotic-romance #erotica #romance #love

You are the beautiful and elusive pinpoint of radiance that lit up the darkness and called me home. ↗

— Sara Humphreys

#love #romance #untamed #william-and-layla #beauty

There are no men like me. There's only me" - (Jaime Lannister) ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#a-song-of-ice-and-fire #men

Men who are comfortable with powerful women are more powerful men.” (Comic Con, 7-13-2012) ↗

— Joss Whedon

#firefly #inner-strength #powerful-women #whedon #men

Some of the smartest men have a hard time comprehending the obvious. ↗

— Kristin Cashore

#men

They courted the face on the screen, the face of translucence, the face of wax on which men found it possible to imprint the image of their fantasy. ↗

— Anaïs Nin

#ladders-to-fire #this-hunger #woman #men

Jaime smiled knowingly. Men will read all sorts of things into a knowing smile if you let them. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#a-storm-of-swords #george-r-r-martin #jaime-lannister #men

For men, the answer was always the same and never farther away than the nearest sword. For a woman, a mother, the way was stonier and harder to know. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#ice-and-fire #motherhood #men

Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#grief #hardship #misfortune #sorrow #suffering

History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will perforce happen again. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#a-song-of-ice-and-fire #history #nature