As human beings we suffer from an innate tendency to jump to conclusions; to judge people too quickly and to pronounce them failures or heroes without due consideration of the actual facts and ideals of the period.
A poem is never finished; it is only abandoned.
Whoever invented the bowtie obviously never had to tie one.
The first thing you need to know about magic is that everything you’ve been told about it is a lie.
They were all in it together. Together, they could all savor success. They all labored under the same exhaustion. It was therefore a shame she felt so alone.
People underestimate just how destructive the truth can be if revealed at the wrong time.
Nothing this good, nothing this intense can ever last. Even the brightest stars burn out.
You’re so different – different from anyone I’ve ever met. In a world that’s all about appearances and status, you’re so real. Everything about you is real.
Whenever I’m in Raph’s arms, the sense of belonging that washes over me is so intense, that there’s no question in my mind that I’m exactly where I belong, that I can finally stop searching for that place to belong because I’ve finally found it and it’s here. With him.
God, as much as I’m enjoying standing here choking on all this sexual tension, I think I’ll go upstairs and drill holes into my teeth – because that’ll be more bearable.
I didn’t realize how much I’d been working to block out the effect that he has on me, until I let myself feel it all in that moment. His very presence makes every fiber in my being come alive and everywhere we touch, I feel the fire. Like that very first day on the beach, I get the feeling that I’ve been sleep walking until now and looking at him is like waking up.
She knew better than to wake a man from a dream, and especially a fever-dream. It was said that when men dreamed they walked another earth, and to wake them was to meddle in that other realm.
Except, Venick felt the pull of it. Rusty, stiff like an unused muscle. A desire to help, to do. An unease at being indebted, a shame that he would even consider ignoring his debts.
I’m lost in an indigo fog as her lips touch mine. The gentle vibration of her soul song rumbles over me.
I named my lizard “Harry’ so that i can say “you are a lizard Harry.
Enough death – enough. When is someone in this family going to break free and live?
We’d not broken up. She’d given me a touching, tender farewell, and promised to wait for me.
I’ll forever support my Queen, my Commander in Chief, my Granny. Even after she’s gone. My problem has never been with the monarchy, nor the concept of monarchy. It’s been with the press and the sick relationship that’s evolved between it and the Palace.
How beautiful it all is, I thought. And also how sad.
I’ve never been more in love with you than in that moment.
And among the whole family. For months the Windsors had been at war. There had been strife in our ranks, off and on, going back centuries, but this was different. This was a full-scale public rupture, and it threatened to become irreparable. So, though I’d flown home specifically and solely for Grandpa’s funeral, while there I’d asked for.