#splendour

With this sense of the splendour of our experience and of its awful brevity, gathering all we are into one desperate effort to see and touch, we shall hardly have time to make theories about the things we see and touch. ↗

— Walter Pater

#awful #brevity #desperate #effort #experience

When it passes towards the east, the sun begins to have less effect upon it, and a thin line on the edge of its bright side emits its splendour towards the earth. ↗

— Marcus V. Pollio

#bright #earth #east #edge #effect

If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes. ↗

— Michelangelo

#beauty #day #end #eyes #flame

Madelyne, we're married now. 'Tis a usual occurrence to bed one's wife on the wedding night. ↗

— Julie Garwood

#humor #julie-garwood #romance #humor

You take my heart with you, my loving captor." "Nay, Madelyne. I am your captive in body and soul. ↗

— Julie Garwood

#julie-garwood #romance #love

I've just vowed my love for you. Have you nothing to say in return?" Duncan asked. "Thank you, husband. ↗

— Julie Garwood

#humor #julie-garwood #romance #humor

I am ever a gentle maiden," she shouted. "Damn if I'm not. ↗

— Julie Garwood

#humor #julie-garwood #romance-novels #humor

Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought. ↗

— Robert Browning

#stung #sudden #thought

If you get yourself killed, I'll find your grave and spit on it," she threatened. ↗

— Julie Garwood

#humor #julie-garwood #romance #humor

You're taller than I am, but I'm stronger, and meaner right this minute than you could ever imagine" - Lady Madelyne. ↗

— Julie Garwood

#humor #julie-garwood #romance #humor