Andrea

“He tolk both my hands in his, then, and kissed them - the left which still bore the gold ring of my marriage to Frank, and then the right, with his own silver ring..
"Da mi basia mille," he whispered, smiling. Give me a thousand kisses. It was the inscription inside my ring, a brief quotation from a love song by Catullus. I bent and gave him one back. "Dein mille altera, " I said. Then a thousand more.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Drums of Autumn

“I was never weighed down by beauty in my lifetime. However, I was beaten down by the sad fears of my gender- women who didn't allow you to feel pretty or rejoice in who you are, unless it fell beneath how they thought about themselves.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“And yes, I do bring death. I crave it, and if you aren’t careful, you will meet yours at my hand.”
― Aubrie Nixon, Secret of Souls

“Friction made sparks, sparks started fires, fires burned bridges. There’s no coming back from this.”
― V.K. Torston, Defiant Attraction