Andrea

“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

“Home is where the heart is, and he had mine with one meeting of our gazes, when our souls touched, when they fondled across a crowded room, burning love’s haze into the gloom. Pressing”
― 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

“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