"God, I love you," he said, and laid his head on her belly, his arms locked around her hips. Madelyn slid her fingers into his hair. "It took you long enough," she said gently. "What I lack in quickness, I make up in staying power." "Meaning?" "That I'll still be telling you that fifty years from now." He paused and turned his head to kiss her stomach."

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Source : Linda Howard (1990). “Duncan's Bride”, Mira Books

Linda Howard

#Love You Quotes #Kissing Quotes #Hair Quotes

“God forbid you sing about love. It's a lost concept.”
“I completely took off my eyebrows one time for a screen test. I hadn't even gotten the role yet. So you have to have a commitment.”
“Have I not walked without an upward look Of caution under stars that very well Might not have missed me when they shot and fell? It was a risk I had to take-and took.”
“But I have been too deeply hurt, Sam. I tried to save the Shire, and it has been saved, but not for me. It must often be so, Sam, when things are in danger: some one has to give them up, lose them, so that others may keep them.”
“There is a reason why conservatives talk about 'government' and not 'self-government,' because to refer to the latter is to concede that 'the government' is really the most basic product of our political commonwealth, that it is what we produce among ourselves so as to order the production of everything else that we do together.”

Source : "The President Finally Accepts America for Ourselves" by Charlie Pierce, www.esquire.com. July 27, 2015.
“It is very painful to love someone and believe you cannot be with them.”

Source : Terry Kay (2010). “Shadow Song: Shadow Song”, p.154, Simon and Schuster
“When you realize there is something you don't understand, then you're generally on the right path to understanding all kinds of things.”
“If God, as they say, is homophobic, I wouldnâ€™t worship that God.”

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