#raphael

What are Raphael's Madonnas but the shadow of a mother's love, fixed in permanent outline forever? ↗

— Thomas Wentworth

#forever #love #mother #outline #permanent

I liked the name Saadiq and didn't want to be known as an artist as Raphael Wiggins. ↗

— Raphael Saadiq

#i #known #liked #name #raphael

You can see where it was, years ago. Like an old woman who was once beautiful, but time has taken her beauty away. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#city-of-bones #raphael #beauty

She wore a loose-fitting purple velvet Pre-Raphaelite gown, and her abundant dark-brown hair flowed down her back and shoulders to her waist. As she drew near, I noticed her warm brown eyes peeping at me beneath lush, un-plucked brows, her smiling red lips and smooth, un-powdered cheeks almost begging for kisses. She possessed a beauty much different from Daisy, more like a wildflower in the unspoiled earth than a prize-winning rose in a formal garden. However, her Pre-Raphaelite fashion might have been an affectation of a different kind, a bit closer to nature but a stylish imitation just the same. ↗

— Gary Inbinder

#neo-victorian #pre-raphaelite #beauty

The bastard kissed her. She was so mad, she bit him hard enough to draw blood. Raphael pulled back, lip already beginning to swell. “We are no longer even, Elena. You’re now in debt.” “You can deduct it from my slow and painful death. ↗

— Nalini Singh

#elena #raphael #sarcasm #sex #death

When I'm with him, I can feel myself getting better. It's like he's picking up broken pieces of me and putting me back together, and I don't even know he's doing it. We never talk about it. We don't go to therapy. He just loves me and that's enough. ↗

— Ilona Andrews

#ilona-andrews #magic-bleeds #pieces #raphael #love

If the lot of you survives, Curran will fray the skin off your backs,' Doolittle said. 'That's what I always love about you, Doctor.' Raphael grinned. 'You're a cup-halfway-full kind of guy. All flowers and sunshine. ↗

— Ilona Andrews

#ilona-andrews #kate-daniels #magic-strikes #raphael #love

But Italy is not an intellectual country. On the subway in Tokyo everybody reads. In Italy, they don't. Don't evaluate Italy from the fact that it produced Raphael and Michelangelo. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#evaluate #everybody #fact #intellectual #italy

Why don't you compare me to Sally Jessy Raphael? ↗

— Trisha Goddard

#me #raphael #sally #why #you