Camille

“I'm sure in the past I've said marriage is stupid. Marriage makes someone sign a contract promising something they really can't deliver. I'm sure I will again say marriage is dumb. But I can also imagine why it could be lovely. There's something beautiful about truly being there for another person.”
― Amy Schumer, The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo

“Um, what's the usual?"
"Haven't the foggiest. Can never remember, but don't have the heart to tell the staff."
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Taking a sip, Alex made a face and then set the drink down on a coffee table. "Ah yes. It's this stuff. Dreadful."
I really wanted to ask Alex how he had wound up with his "usual" being a drink he didn't actually like, but I was terrified that he might answer me.”
― Alexis Hall, Boyfriend Material

“I don't even want to know someone who isn't barely hanging on by a thread.”
― Amy Schumer, The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo

“I mean that we hold the centre. We hold everything from Acquitart to Sicyon. Can we not call it a kingdom and rule it together? Am I such a poorer prospect than a Patran princess, or a daughter of the Empire?’ He made himself say no more than that, though the words crowded in his chest. He waited. It surprised him that it hurt to wait, and that the longer he waited, the more he felt he couldn’t bear to hear the answer, brought to him on a knife point. When he made himself look at Laurent, Laurent’s eyes on him were very dark, his voice quiet. ‘How can you trust me, after what your own brother did to you?’ ‘Because he was false,’ said Damen, ‘and you are true. I have never known a truer man.’ He said, into the stillness, ‘I think if I gave you my heart, you would treat it tenderly.’ Laurent turned his head, denying Damen his face. Damen could see his breathing. After a moment he said in a low voice, ‘When you make love to me like that, I can’t think.’ ‘Don’t think,’ said Damen. Damen”
― C.S. Pacat, Kings Rising