#tempo

She dribbled water over his neck and back. The towel didn't quite soak up all of it, and drops raced down his back, trailing the curve of his spine. She loved that curve, framed on either side by ripple after ripple of muscle, and she especially loved the way it dipped in at his waist before flaring onto his perfect, rounded backside. ↗

— Melissa Cutler

#contemporary #romance #suspense #love

She loves dogs. And in time, who knows, maybe she would even have ended up loving the type of dogs who eat other small dogs for lunch. -- Leslie McNeill ↗

— Richard Finney

#alpha-male #apocalyptic #contemporary #extraterrestrials #paranormal

They decided to establish a museum of modern art where works by contemporary artists would be shown. Mother was viewed as a very progressive person, and not everybody liked the paintings she bought. ↗

— David Rockefeller

#artists #bought #contemporary #decided #establish

His presence was stirring heat in all the wrong places and for all the wrong reasons. ↗

— Justine Dell

#hot-hero #long-lost-love #love-story #lovers #romance

What’s bothering me is you always seem ready to snap my head off my shoulders and I’m not comfortable with that. ↗

— Justine Dell

#contemporary-romance #hot-hero #long-lost-love #love-story #lovers

Hey, you’re the one who can’t stand me being so close to you. ↗

— Justine Dell

#contemporary-romance #hot-hero #long-lost-love #love-story #lovers

That's a movie quote, right? You know, if you do that with books, people think you're intelligent." Sophie lowered her chin. "If this is your pathetic attempt to seduce me again, you're falling miserably." "I don't seduce woman." Phin shoved back his chair and stood up. "They fall into my open arms." "Clumsy of them. ↗

— Jennifer Crusie

#intelligence

The notion of a neutral, mainstream national media gained dominance only in World War II and in its aftermath, when what turned out to be a temporary moderate consensus came to govern the country. ↗

— Howard Fineman

#came #consensus #country #dominance #gained

I made records in the past that are as traditional as any other country records that have been made, but at the same time the records have a contemporary slant on it too. ↗

— Vince Gill

#been #contemporary #country #i #in the past

In believing too much in rationality, our contemporaries have lost something. ↗

— Krzysztof Kieslowski

#contemporaries #lost #much #our #rationality