Rebecca Duval

~ romance author ~

[kissingpicture]

[rebecca-duval]

If you ever looked at me once with what I know is in you, I would be your slave.

Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights (via rebecca-duval)

[the-book-diaries]

Sex is just another form of talk, where you act the words instead of saying them.

D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover (via the-book-diaries)

[endless-love-story]

[the-book-queen]

Morning kisses.

[rebecca-duval]

It does happen, you know, from time to time, that a man finds a woman who is the answer to all his more searching dreams. And the two have understanding of each other, from the lightest moment to the darkest mood.

Frenchman’s Creek by Daphne du Maurier (via rebecca-duval)

[watchoutforintellect]

“I don’t resist the seductions of darkness.”

— Jeanette Winterson - from Why I Adore the Night

[mostbeautifulgirlscaps]

[tierradentro]

Venice, 1965. By Elliott Erwitt.

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

Lakes of red roses, here, in the snow;

Émile Verhaeren, from The Evenings: Poems; “Fatal Flower,” c. 1887 (via violentwavesofemotion)

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

Love, from whom the sea is sweet, from whom the sea is bitterer than death.

Sara Teasdale, from Helen of Troy & Other Poems; “Sappho,” wr. c. 1928 (via violentwavesofemotion)

[yellowpoet]

i want to write poetry on your neck with my lips, i want to etch my words into the grooves of your hips

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

I have wanted you for so long, it feels like forever.

Margarita Karapanou, tr. by Karen Emmerich, from “Rien ne va Plus,” (via violentwavesofemotion)

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

The whole of your being is sacred to me,

Megan Terry, from “Approaching Simone,” first produced in March 1970 (via violentwavesofemotion)

[lettersfromadreamgirl]

I am deeply saddened by the fact that I was not born into the era of love letters

[rebecca-duval]

What liars poets and everybody were! They made one think one wanted sentiment. When what one supremely wanted was this piercing, consuming, rather awful sensuality.

D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover (via rebecca-duval)

[primevideouk]

The devil’s juice.

[the-book-diaries]

These violent delights have violent ends.

William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (via the-book-diaries)