#showers

To live for the hope of something isn’t really living at all, and so, like a child putting away its toys and picking up a tool, he marched to Lyca’s bathroom, to shower off the stench of failure, soap up the death of hope, then wash away the ashes of his love for Daphne. ↗

— Mark A. Rayner

#ashes #child #crush #death #fail

I hate parties. And a wedding is the biggest party of all. All the guests arrived and Orpheus is taking a shower. He's always taking a shower when the guests arrive so he doesn't have to greet them. Then I have to greet them. ↗

— Sarah Ruhl

#men #men-and-women #parties #relationships #showers

He took my hand and held it against his chest, "Feel that? It beats for you. ↗

— Karli Perrin

#june #love #na #new-adult #romance

We used to get one room and we'd park the vehicle outside, everybody would all take showers and we'd steal towels because we knew we wasn't gonna have enough towels for all five of us to shower. ↗

— Buck Owens

#enough #everybody #five #get #gonna

Shining through tears, like April suns in showers, that labour to overcome the cloud that loads 'em. ↗

— Thomas Otway

#cloud #labour #like #loads #overcome

Tears are the summer showers to the soul. ↗

— Alfred Austin

#soul #summer #tears