~☆~Autumn

“There's a port on a western bay
and it serve 100 ships a day
Lonely sailors pass the time away
And talk about their homes.

There's a girl in this harbour town
And she works laying whiskey down
They say, "Brandy, fetch another round"
She serves them whiskey and wine,

The sailors say, Brandy, you're a fine girl
What a good wife you would be
But my life, my love, and my lady is the sea”
― John U. Bacon, The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald

“He gave her his best panty-melting smile.”
― Kimber Silver, Broken Rhodes

“who knows if the moon's a balloon, coming out of a keen city in the sky -filled with pretty people?
(and if you and I should get into it, if they should take me and you into their balloons, why then we'd go up higher with all the pretty people than houses and steeple and clouds go sailing away and away sailing into a keen city which nobody's ever visited, where always it's Spring) and everyone's in love and flowers pick themselves”
― David Niven, The 100 Simple Secrets of Happy People: What Scientists Have Learned and How You Can Use It

“We can't build hormones like estrogen, testosterone, or vitamin D without cholesterol, and its mandatory presence in our cell membranes should be comforting to us all, ...”
― Georgia Ede, M. D.