Bespectacledreader

“Victoria turned and got her first look at the shower-fresh version of Ford Dixon. Gorgeous as ever; six-foot plus inches of incredibly blue eyes; wet, mussed hair; low-slung jeans; and a T-shirt stretched across his broad, solid chest.
And bare feet.
She heard the tiny cry of a hundred unfertilized eggs as one of her ovaries exploded.”
― Julie James, Suddenly One Summer

“You're so young, you can't know the meaning of true regret. It's never what you've done, love, it's what you've left undone.”
― Tessa Dare, Surrender of a Siren

“are you breathing, are you lucky enough
to be breathing”
― Hettie Jones

“Though [Abraham Lincoln] never would travel to Europe, he went with Shakespeare’s kings to Merry England; he went with Lord Byron poetry to Spain and Portugal. Literature allowed him to transcend his surroundings.”
― Doris Kearns Goodwin