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‘Supper will be about twenty minutes,’ she announced from the door. The doctor was at the window again, his back to the TV which he had switched on. He looked her up and down. He said: ‘Ah, this is to be a special occasion, is it?’ in a
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“He stood back smiling while they shook hands and murmured politely, and Amelia, meeting the Dutchman's sleepy gaze, had a sudden strange feeling, as though everything had changed; that nothing would ever be the same again; that there was no one else there, only herself and this giant of a man, still staring at her.”
― The Silver Thaw
― The Silver Thaw
“He mopped her face and thought how beautiful she was -- hair in a glorious tangle, a pink nose and puffy eyes, and swathed in a shapeless dressing gown only fit for the dustbin. The thought struck him with some force that he had fallen in love at last -- that, indeed, he had been in love for some time.”
― Marrying Mary
― Marrying Mary
“Through buried paths, where sleepy twilight dreams
The summer time away.”
― Bright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne
The summer time away.”
― Bright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne
“Softly the breezes from the forest came,
Softly they blew aside the taper's flame;
Clear was the song from Philomel's far bower;
Grateful the incense from the lime-tree flower;
Mysterious, wild, the far-heard trumpet's tone;
Lovely the moon in ether, all alone:
Sweet too, the converse of these happy mortals,
As that of busy spirits when the portals
Are closing in the west; or that soft humming
We hear around when Hesperus is coming.
Sweet be their sleep.”
― Bright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne
Softly they blew aside the taper's flame;
Clear was the song from Philomel's far bower;
Grateful the incense from the lime-tree flower;
Mysterious, wild, the far-heard trumpet's tone;
Lovely the moon in ether, all alone:
Sweet too, the converse of these happy mortals,
As that of busy spirits when the portals
Are closing in the west; or that soft humming
We hear around when Hesperus is coming.
Sweet be their sleep.”
― Bright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne
“You see, when we met I thought, "There's a brown mouse of a girl with a sharp tongue," and then before I knew what was happening I was in love with you. Oh, I did my best to ignore it, and I thought that if I ignored you too I'd be safely back in my bachelor state in no time—only it didn't work out like that. You were under my skin, in my bones, my very heartbeat. And I'd gone out of my way to make you dislike me so that it would be easier for me to get over you. Only I haven't done that, my darling.”
― Heaven Around The Corner
― Heaven Around The Corner
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