#rose

Of course, fashions come and go but metrosexuality isn’t a fashion – it’s an epoch. It represents a fundamental shift in what men are allowed to be and to want. Men are now permitted to be ‘passive’ – inviting our gaze. ↗

— Mark Simpson

#men #metrosexual #metrosexuality #men

But Rose? While I'm fine with you two dating and being happy, please try not to brake his heart too much when the time comes. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#richelle-mead #rose #spirit-bound #dating

He'd written me up a proposal of why dating him was a sound decision. It had included things like "I'll give up cigarettes unless I really, really need one" and "I'll unleash romantic surprises every week, such as: an impromptu picnic, roses, or a trip to Paris—but not actually any of those things because now they're not surprises. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#dating #rose-hathaway #dating

For a long while we just stood there, looking down at the profound and fleshless grin. The body had apparently once lain in the attitude of an embrace, but now the long sleep that outlasts love, that conquers even the grimace of love, had cuckolded him. What was left of him, rotted beneath what was left of the nightshirt, had become inextricable from the bed in which he lay; and upon him and upon the pillow beside him lay that even coating of the patient and biding dust. Then we noticed that in the second pillow was the indentation of a head. One of us lifted something from it, and leaning forward, that faint and invisible dust dry and acrid in the nostrils, we saw a long strand of iron-grey hair. ↗

— William Faulkner

#attitude

Rose: 'If you are an alien, how come you sound like you're from the north?' Doctor: 'Lots of planets have a north! ↗

— Steven Moffat

#rose-tyler #the-doctor #the-doctor-and-rose #rose

Heterosexuality is dangerous. It tempts you to aim at a perfect duality of desire. ↗

— Marguerite Duras

#dangerous #desire #duality #heterosexuality #perfect

Christian non ha niente a che fare con gli Strigoi" dissi a bassa voce. "I suoi genitori…" "Sono i suoi genitori. E lui è Christian. Non li confondere. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#rose-hathaway

I have the normal complement of anxieties, neuroses, psychoses and whatever else - but I'm absolutely nothing special. ↗

— Clive Barker

#absolutely nothing #anxieties #complement #else #i

Have you seen the roses? There's a whole lot of colours. ↗

— Syd Barrett

#lot #roses #seen #whole #you

The machines, the modern mode of production, slowly undermined domestic production and not just for thousands but for millions of women the question arose: Where do we now find our livelihood? ↗

— Clara Zetkin

#domestic #find #just #livelihood #machines