#mp

Well, with that filly in my line of vision blushing like a virgin, something in me was bound to stand at attention. And my walking legs were occupied. ↗

— A.G. Starling

#competition #contemporary-romance #game #love #sexy

Don’t let affluence make you impoverished of God. ↗

— Jon Bloom

#christianity #love-of-money #poverty #temptation #love

You do not know your vampire nature. You are like an adult who, looking back on his childhood, realizes that he never appreciated it. You cannot, as a man, go back to the nursery and play with your toys, asking for the love and care to be showered on you again simply because now you know their worth. So it is with you and mortal nature. You've given it up. You no longer look "through a glass darkly." But you cannot pass back to the world of human warmth with your new eyes. ↗

— Anne Rice

#love

His thumb touched her lower lip, his eyes fixed on her. As if he couldn’t be stopped, the words flowed out of his mouth. “I want to take you in my arms, to kiss you long and hard, to touch you like you’ve never been touched, to give you the pleasure I feel running in your veins. ↗

— Chris Lange

#paranormal-romance #romantic-suspense #vampire-romance #love

Dear heart,” he murmured, “do not look on me with those dear, scared eyes of yours. If there is aught that puzzles you in what I said, try and trust me a little longer. Remember, I must save the Dauphin at all costs; mine honor is bound with his safety. What happens to me after that matters but little, yet I wish to live for your dear sake. ↗

— Emmuska Orczy

#france #honor #love #the-scarlet-pimprenel #trust

Lovely Arra Sails, nectar to all males, how I'd like to spear you like a whaler spears a whale! ↗

— Darren Shan

#darren-shan #humor #innuendo #larten-crepsley #mr-crepsley

I shall expect my husband to have no pleasures but what he shares with me; and if his greatest pleasure of all is not the enjoyment of my company - why - it will be the worse for him - that's all.' 'If such are your expectations of matrimony, Esther, you must, indeed, be careful whom you marry - or rather, you must avoid it altogether. ↗

— Anne Brontë

#expectations #husband #love #matrimony #wife

If there is “better”, then there is a “best”. If there is “half”, then there is a “complete”. Far more than being a “better half”, you can be a “best complete”; like a word/phrase that beautifies and gives meaning to a sentence when it is added. ↗

— Olaotan Fawehinmi

#best-complete #better #better-half #complete #half

Thinking we are only supposed to have loving & compassionate feelings can be a terrible obstacle to spiritual practice. ↗

— Sharon Salzberg

#compassion #inspiration #inspirational

I "love" reading. It makes me feel like I am swallowing up Christ, Homer, Confucius, Newton, Franklin, Socrates, Caesar, and the whole world into one gigantic invincible Sir Moffat. Mine is creative reading. I read building empires in mind. I pray I won't read and read and forget to marry. ↗

— Moffat Machingura

#caeser #christ #christianity #confucius #consume