“In my experience, there are two things that no one will admit to: having no sense of humor and being susceptible to flattery.” TwoTwo ThingsSense Of HumorFlatterySusceptible Author:Margaret George
“So I learned two things that night, and the next day, from him: the perfection of a moment, and the fleeting nature of it.” TwoMomentsNightNextLossRelationshipPerfectionTwo ThingsNext DayFleeting Book:The Memoirs of Cleopatra Source: The Memoirs of Cleopatra
“Now I felt the long-forgotten urgency of lovemaking, when it seems one's human selves leave, to be replaced by hungry beasts bolting their food. Gone are the civilized beings who talk of manners and journeys and letters; in their places are two bodies straining to give birth to a burst of inhuman pleasure followed by a great, floating nothingness. An explosion of life followed by death - in this we live, and in this we foreshadow our own sweet deaths.” GivingHumansLongTwoSelfBodySeemsFeltPleasureGoneJourneySweetBirthLettersForgottenHungryMannersBeastCivilizedReplacedNothingnessFloatingExplosionsUrgencyInhumanSweet Death Book:The Memoirs of Cleopatra Source: The Memoirs of Cleopatra