Monks committed all the same sins that ordinary people did. He had just been shocked by the woman's shamelessness. The sight of her nakedness remained with him, the way the hot heart of a candle flame, stared at for a few moments, would burn on behind closed eyelids.
Let me feel how thy pulses beat.
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Thomas Middleton
Jesus Christ! ” A man could only take so much. She yelped as he snatched her up around the waist and sat her on the counter. “Sit there and don’t move. Don’t bat your eyes. Don’t lick your lips. Don’t get on your knees. And...
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Alannah Lynne
I hunger for your sleek laugh and your hands the color of a furious harvest. I want to eat the sunbeams flaring in your beauty.
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Pablo Neruda
Your thighs are appletrees. Your knees are a southern breeze.
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William Carlos Williams
O, it's die we must, but it's live we can, And the marvel of earth and sun Is all for the joy of woman and man And the longing that makes them one.
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William Ernest Henley
More Quotes By Ken Follett
Having faith in God did not mean sitting back and doing nothing. It meant believing you would find success if you did your best honestly and energetically.
I think there are two kinds of marriage, " Ethel said thoughtfully. "One is a comfortable partnership, where two people share the same hopes and fears, raise children as a team, and give each other comfort and help." She was talking about herself and Bernie,...
Fear could paralyse. Action was the antidote.
He was nineteen years old, homeless and rootless, with no family and no purpose in life.
... people always credit prime ministers with more brains than they've got.
