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Unclasps her warmed jewels one by one;Loosens her fragrant bodice; by degreesHer rich attire creeps rustling to her knees.
— John Keats
Ladies, if you want to know the way to my heart... good spelling and good grammar, good punctuation, capitalize only where you are supposed to capitalize, it's done.
— John Mayer
I must leave you, Claudia. 'Tis unlikely we will have another opportunity to speak alone again before tomorrow." His lips brushed against hers in a kiss so brief that it was over almost before she realized it began. "Do not kiss anyone else until then. I want you to save your kisses for me.
— Elisabeth Elliot
I learned a new phrase today while you were away." She turned in his arms and then placed her hand on his chest. Her gaze lowered, suddenly shy. "Mi sei mancato molto." (I missed you so much) Sometimes it was acceptable for comfort and need to collide. He leaned down and kissed her, a kiss to seal his promises, a kiss that meant they were going to miss their evening meal.
— Elisabeth Elliot
I like to touch you," Claudia said, in her soft, sultry voice. "There are times when I want so badly to touch you that it hurts not to." She lifted one hand to his face and brushed her fingertips along his cheek.
— Elisabeth Elliot
For what is love itself, for the one we love best? - an enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.
— George Eliot
The really delightful marriage must be that where your husband was a sort of father, and could teach you even Hebrew, if you wished it.
— George Eliot
I don't see how a man is to be good for much unless he has some one woman to love him dearly.
— George Eliot
have been little disposed to gather flowers that would wither in my hand, but now I shall pluck them with eagerness, to place them in your bosom.
— George Eliot
His friend Tulliver had asked him for an opinion; it is always chilling, in friendly intercourse, to say you have no opinion to give. And if you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.
— George Eliot
Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.
— St. Augustine
Those who love to be feared fear to be loved.
— Francis de Sales