Lora

“There is lust and then there is love. They are related, but still very different things. To indulge in one requires little but honeyed speech and a change of clothes; to obtain the other, by contrast, a man must give up his rib. In return, his woman will undo the sin of Eve, and bring him back into Paradise.”
― Anne Fortier, Juliet

“There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“You must pay for everything in this world one way and another. There is nothing free except the Grace of God. You cannot earn that or deserve it.”
― Charles Portis, True Grit

“When I kiss Agathon my soul is on my lips, where it comes, poor thing, hoping to cross over.”
― Plato