Irem

“So our chess game begins tonight, Duchess. At eleven o’clock. I will give you one hour to try to win, blindfolded or no.” His teeth showed very white when he smiled. “And then I shall win.”

Jemma sniffed and turned up her nose. “Pride goeth before a fall, Duke.”

“You will fall before me,” he said, his smile a blatant challenge. “Backwards.”
― Eloisa James, This Duchess of Mine

“I surrendered who I was to who you are..”
― Jeff Buckley

“In a sense life in the high-rise had begun to resemble the world outside - there were the same ruthlessness and agression concealed within a set of polite conventions.”
― J.G. Ballard, High-Rise

“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”
― Rumi