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“Oh honey, someday a real man is going to make you see stars and you won't even be looking at the sky."
Excerpt from Grace Willow's Last Minute Bride”
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Excerpt from Grace Willow's Last Minute Bride”
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“He was comparing you to the butterflies that you both adore and cherish, and he said you were special for the same reasons: you were rare, exotic and entirely you. He said you're beautiful exactly the way are now.”
― One Hundred Names
― One Hundred Names
“Some people when they see cheese, chocolate or cake they don't think of calories.”
― Wealth of Words
― Wealth of Words
“Love, the exotic bird,
came and went.
Heart forgot love.
Joy, the majestic willow,
wept and died.
Mind forgot joy.
Hope, the basement lamp,
fell and broke.
Soul forgot hope.
Self, the anxious caterpillar,
took flight and dropped.
Self forgot self.
You, my all,
became all my reasons.
Reasons left.
You left.
I never forgot.”
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came and went.
Heart forgot love.
Joy, the majestic willow,
wept and died.
Mind forgot joy.
Hope, the basement lamp,
fell and broke.
Soul forgot hope.
Self, the anxious caterpillar,
took flight and dropped.
Self forgot self.
You, my all,
became all my reasons.
Reasons left.
You left.
I never forgot.”
―
“You are enough to drive a saint to madness or a king to his knees
Excerpt from To Kiss a King by Grace Willows
Coming this summer to Amazon Kindle and paperback.”
― To Kiss a King
Excerpt from To Kiss a King by Grace Willows
Coming this summer to Amazon Kindle and paperback.”
― To Kiss a King
“The jungle is alive. It’s dangerous as a living nightmare and brimful of hostility.”
― On Starlit Seas
― On Starlit Seas
“The moon was low but not full. The men set out along the dock in conversation. As they dropped onto the dark beach, Simmons declared, ‘There can be no better place in the world than this.â€�
Henderson had to agree. The beach was beautiful. The stars lit the sand and balmy air rode in as the waves washed up on paradise”
― On Starlit Seas
Henderson had to agree. The beach was beautiful. The stars lit the sand and balmy air rode in as the waves washed up on paradise”
― On Starlit Seas
“One might trouble one's dainty snout with a whiff of the taleggio displayed in an artisanal cheese shop, or take a saucer of jasmine tea and a knuckle of fennel-scented snuff at a counter of buffed Big Nothing granite. But there was a want in these ladies yet, and it was for the rude life of youth.”
― City of Bohane
― City of Bohane
“I wasn’t a person after all. I was simply this exotic thing for people to observe and investigate, an alien in any environment I was in.”
― Quixote in Ramadi: An Indigenous Account of Imperialism
― Quixote in Ramadi: An Indigenous Account of Imperialism
“Her honey-coloured hair fell in heavy wavesbelow her shoulders and as she stared up at him her eyes, clear, speckled amber, seemed to tilt at the corners; her brows were black and swept up in arcs, and she had thick black lashesh. There was about her a kind of warm luxuriance, something immediately suggestive to the men of pleasurable fulfillment- something for which she was not responsible but of which she was acutely conscious.”
― Forever Amber
― Forever Amber
“Over the drop, a luminous pond lay below them like a pale magic lantern. It was as if the moon had plummeted into the water and smashed open. Engulfed in darkness, with only a scatter of stars above, the place felt like a bright secret â€� something ancient and precious.”
― On Starlit Seas
― On Starlit Seas
“Before that no one thought of us as colored-foreign maybe, exotic and dark, but not colored.”
― American Gods
― American Gods
“I wish I could say he was a French professor, a French chef, or even a bilingual tutor, but I can’t. He worked in a factory and spent his summer evenings at a reenactment village as a blacksmith or something equally masculine. But it didn’t really matter. He was the kind of man I had dreamt of, one who could bring a touch of the exotic to my small-town existence. (No doubt he would make love as passionately as he spoke French.)”
― On Being a Rat and Other Observations
― On Being a Rat and Other Observations
“You really are exotic, for boys in my country, they do not have such pectorals. I like yours.”
― The Untold Story Of Iphis And Ianthe
― The Untold Story Of Iphis And Ianthe
“Food stall owners reach out with menus, calling out their dinner selections like midway prizes”
― Finding Home: A Creative Journey on a Trip Around the World
― Finding Home: A Creative Journey on a Trip Around the World
“He can come up with the most exotic things I’ve ever seen or heard of every time he blinks his eyes.”
― Crystal Gorge
― Crystal Gorge
“The meal she served was unlike any I had encountered in Vienna, or anywhere else: red seaweed garnished with pickled radishes; black rice noodles and spotted mushrooms boiled in wine, grilled squid stuffed with flying fish roe; and yellow cherries sauteed in butter. The hot bread was laced with cinnamon and paprika. The goat cheese was coated with thyme honey.”
― The True Adventures of Nicolo Zen
― The True Adventures of Nicolo Zen
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