#tempo

I love you," he said. She looked up at him, her eyes shiny and black, then looked away. "I know," she said. He pulled one of his arms out from under her and traced her outline against the couch. He could spend all day like this, running his hand down her ribs, into her waist, out to her hips and back again.... If he had all day, he would. If she weren't made of so many other miracles. "You know?" he repeated. She smiled, so he kissed her. "You're not the Han Solo in this relationship, you know." "I'm totally the Han Solo," she whispered. It was good to hear her. It was good to remember it was Eleanor under all this new flesh. "Well, I'm not the Princess Leia," he said. "Don't get so hung up on gender roles," Eleanor said. ↗

— Rainbow Rowell

#eleanor-park #park #rainbow-rowell #swoons #young-adult-contemporary-romance

Three Denises wobbled in front of her, all of them watching her with fond concern. “You’re a sweetie. I appreciate you cheering me on from the sidelines. But I think I need to go to the bathroom now and throw up. ↗

— Sarah Mayberry

#funny #humour #romance #contemporary-romance

We were really interested in music from all over the world. We realized that what we were doing was very close to contemporary classical music because of the lack of tonality in the guitar- the fact that I play guitar the way I play. ↗

— Arto Lindsay

#classical #classical music #close #contemporary #doing

A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#consciously #contemporaries #epoch #his #individual

If we wish to discuss knowledge in the most highly developed contemporary society, we must answer the preliminary question of what methodological representation to apply to that society. ↗

— Jean-Francois Lyotard

#apply #contemporary #contemporary society #developed #discuss

Instead of thinking that's a nice tune, you start thinking is it the right pace, is it the right tempo? That is the death nell for artists. ↗

— Alison Moyet

#death #instead #nice #pace #right

Actors who are lovers in real life are often incapable if playing the part of lovers to an audience. It is equally true that sympathy between actors who are not lovers may create a temporary emotion that is perfectly sincere. ↗

— Ivor Novello

#between #create #emotion #equally #incapable

So, babies are taken from their mothers because they get temporarily insane and it's not the mother's fault. This is the thing: they shouldn't feel ashamed. They didn't cause this. It is not something they did to themselves. ↗

— Marie Osmond

#babies #because #cause #did #fault

The temporal quality of all things was being firmly impressed upon me. ↗

— George Peppard

#being #firmly #impressed #me #quality

I believe that with the help of foreign countries - and under that condition only, because they have no other source of financing - the new government may temporarily extricate Georgia from the current situation. ↗

— Eduard Shevardnadze

#believe #condition #countries #current #current situation