She glanced over at the twisted wreckage of the chair — (a nice, Swedish chair that had done nothing in its short life to hurt anyone
In the portrait of Venus, the emphasis is on her physical beauty. Even though she represents sexual love, she maintains a venerable modesty, clutching part of her hair in order to cover herself. Notic...
If they love one another to the exclusion of everything and everyone else, then their love is pagan. They’ve made idols of one another and their love. And they’re also very foolish, because no human b...
I love you too. I love you far too much, I’m sure. But I don’t know how to love you any other way. His final words were a whisper, but they burned in the air. I don’t know how to love you any other wa...
I don't deserve you. I know that. Consco i segni dell'antica fiamma. I felt it the first time I took your hand.The first time I kissed you. And it was all there last night- every feeling, every memory...
I am the monster, hiding in the darkness, the intruder had whispered.
I am not a good man. I’m not a man at all. But I love you and my love is certainly steadfast.
How had he believed that nameless, faceless orgasms would ever satisfy him? He’d spent his life worshipping at the altar of a silent, absent god who promised everything but delivered something fleetin...
Gabriel slowly raised his head and stared at her. Ten graduate students inhaled as one and began to move backward in their chairs, fearful that he might explode, or that a dagger from his eye might fl...
Gabriel slowly began rubbing his eyes, for in addition to suffering from one of the worst hangover headaches of his life, he was slightly enjoying the sight of Miss Mitchell in his T-shirt and boxer s...
Gabriel sabía que había hecho lo mismo con Julianne. La había adorado, convencido de que era la luz que mantendría la oscuridad alejada de su vida.La había amado tanto que había accedido a separarse d...
Evil had its own logic and it was not something he, given his own moral code, would ever understand. And humans think we are monsters.
El mal es su propio castigo.(...) Algunas personas son tan egocéntricas y viven tan engañadas que ni todos los gritos del mundo servirían para que se dieran cuenta de sus errores.
El amor cortés está más ligado a la razón que a la pasión.
Dante’s notions of sin are shaped largely by the writings of St. Thomas Aquinas. In his famous Summa Theologiae, Aquinas argues that any evil action or sin is a form of self-destruction. He assumes th...
Beatrice? he whispered. Yes, she said, moving so she could maintain eye contact with him until the last possible second. I’m Beatrice. You were my first kiss. I fell asleep in your arms in your precio...
Al principio no la reconoció. Era tan hermosa que cortaba el aliento con sus movimientos gráciles y seguros. Y algo en su rostro le recordó a la niña de la que se había enamorado años atrás. La vida l...
Your love makes me beautiful.Then let me love you forever.
You forget that when a woman finds a good man, a man who loves her and makes her happy, she doesn’t fuck around.
Women are mysterious, he mused.She laughed, In what way?They're a study in contrast: soft and strong, fierce and gentle. They can do everything, of course, and yet one feels compelled to do everything...