Mary Ashley Townsend famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

How much do I love thee? Go ask the deep sea How many rare gems In its coral caves be; Or ask the broad billows, That ceaselessly roar, How many bright sands Do they kiss on the shore?
-- Mary Ashley Townsend

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I believe if I should die, And you should kiss my eyelids where I lie Cold, dead, and dumb to all the world contains, The folded orbs would open at thy breath, And from its exile in the Isles of Death Life would come gladly back along my veins.
-- Mary Ashley Townsend

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If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.
Piglet: "How do you spell 'love'?" Winnie the Pooh: "You don't spell it...you feel it."
The pleasure and the love of God for His creatures constitute the original state. His pleasure and love are the means by which He has brought His creatures into existence and are the cause of that bringing into existence. He who knows that he possesses neither being nor act rediscovers himself in that original state of pleasure and divine love.
Only those who love with the heart can animate the love of others.
I get to keep you,â€ he said, staring at me with an intensity that made me shiver. â€œKeep me?â€ I asked, reaching up to kiss his chin and trail kisses down his perfect neck. â€œNot here. I canâ€™t take much more, Pagan. Iâ€™m only so strong,â€ he said in a husky voice as he pulled me against his chest. â€œYouâ€™re mine now. While you walk the Earth you belong to me. Nothing can hurt you.â€ I heard a touch of humor in his voice. â€œItâ€™s pretty impossible to hurt what Death protects.
The bottom line is the Kiss Army is growing by leaps and bounds.
I sought them far and found them, The sure, the straight, the brave, The hearts I lost my own to, The souls I could not save They braced their belts about them, They crossed in ships the sea, They sought and found six feet of ground, And there they died for me.
Being at sea is like watching the whole world in high-definition.
I would that with sleepy, soft embraces The sea would fold mewould find me rest In luminous shades of her secret places, In depths where her marvels are manifest; So the earth beneath her should not discover My hidden couchnor the heaven above her As a strong love shielding a weary lover, I would have her shield me with shining breast.
I've never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.

Mary Ashley Townsend famous quotes

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