#forbidden

There was no time for kissing but she wanted him to know that in the future there would be. A kiss in so much loneliness was like a hand pulling you up out of the water, scooping you up from a place of drowning and into the reckless abundance of air. A kiss, another kiss. ↗

— Ann Patchett

#forbidden #gen #kiss #love #save

He suddenly felt the urge to kiss her-hard- upon the mouth. But this- what he felt, it could never be real. Because once the ball was over, she would go back to being an assassin, and he would still be a prince. Dorian swallowed hard. For tonight, though... He held her closer. Everyone transformed into mere shadows on the wall. ↗

— Sarah J. Maas

#kiss #love #love

As a first step there must be an offer to achieve equality of rights in disarmament by abolishing the weapons forbidden to the Central Powers by the Peace Treaties. ↗

— Arthur Henderson

#central #disarmament #equality #first #first step

Sometimes doing the forbidden can be nice. ↗

— Alain Robert

#doing #forbidden #nice #sometimes

The Southern slave would obey God in respect to marriage, and also to the reading and studying of His word. But this, as we have seen, is forbidden him. ↗

— Gerrit Smith

#forbidden #god #him #his #marriage

Things forbidden have a secret charm. ↗

— Tacitus

#forbidden #secret #things

Out of the millions and millions of people that inhabit this planet, he is one of the tiny few I can never have. ↗

— Tabitha Suzuma

#heartbreak #lover-mine #maya #heartbreak

Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to a careless and thoughtless state of life, and yields to the lust of the flesh, not considering that this lust is really the forbidden tree. ↗

— Johann Arndt

#considering #far #flesh #forbidden #fruits

It doesn't seem to me strange that children should like the macabre, the sensational, and the forbidden. ↗

— Anthony Hecht

#forbidden #like #me #seem #sensational

Just carrying a ruler with you in your pocket should be forbidden, at least on a moral basis. The ruler is the symbol of the new illiteracy. The ruler is the symptom of the new disease, disintegration of our civilisation. ↗

— Friedensreich Hundertwasser

#carrying #civilisation #disease #disintegration #forbidden