Andrea

“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

“Love. Fucking love. Love feels like tingles and sunrays. It’s a tightness in my chest and an extra beat of my heart. Love is completeness—sappiness. Better than the best chocolate ever.”
― Mary Elizabeth, Innocents

“Why didn’t you wake me?” I ask, leaning to look round and up him to see his face, hoping to release some of the pain in my fingers from his brutal hold. “Didn’t have the heart. You drank a lot last night and I nailed you like your name was Jesus, I had to let you rest.”
― Gemma Rice, Loving Misery

“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