Brooke

“I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.”
― Mae West

“Ripe for romance? Is that not only the self-conscious and sensitive young man's way of saying he was heavy with passion? Is not, perhaps, romance only the fiction by means of which the tender-minded negotiate their lust?”
― Trevanian, The Summer of Katya

“I mean that I am bound to you, even as you are bound to me. From the very first, I knew that it would be so. When I came here, in the winter, and lay upstairs in your room, my hands behind my head, and looked at your sullen portrait on the wall, I smiled to myself, and said, ‘That—and none other.’ And I waited, and I did nothing, for I knew that our time would come.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Frenchman's Creek

“She knew that this was happiness, this was living as she had always wished to live.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Frenchman's Creek