#romance litedit

[ariadnethedragon]

LORD OF SCOUNDRELS by Loretta Chase

“I will teach you a lesson you’ll never forget.”

She tangled her fingers in his hair and brought his mouth to hers. “My wicked darling,” she whispered. “I should like to see you try.”

[thevelaryons]

The wedding of Corlys Velaryon and Rhaenys Targaryen

Artwork by Tomasz Jedruszek

[wormwoodandhoney]

some books read in 2024: funny story by emily henry

“Now there’s no good way to get out of it. I mean, when we ‘break up,’ Peter will get to feel smug and superior about that.” “That’s no problem,” Miles says, pouring a taste of white wine for each of us. “All we have to do is get married, and then stay together until they split up. And if they have kids, just have one more than them. If they get a dog, we get a cuter dog. If they buy a new house, we get a mansion.” “A perfect plan,” I say. “Why didn’t I think of it?"

[guseveretts]

books read in 2024

|| beach read — emily henry || ⭑ ⭑ ⭑ ⭑ ⭑

[siete-pecados]

BOOKS I READ IN 2024 → Funny Story by Emily Henry

[bookshelvesandtealeaves]

5 star reads of 2024 ↳ the pairing by casey mcquiston

[purplebass]

2023 books - happy place by emily henry

It doesn't matter how busy life's been, how long the five of us have gone without seeing one another: meeting at the cottage is like pulling on a favourite sweatshirt, worn to perfection. Time doesn't move the same way when we're there. Things change, but we stretch and grow and make room for one another. Our love is a place we can always come back to, and it will be waiting, the same as it ever was.

You belong here.

[emmcarstairs]

BELLADONNA, Adalyn Grace

❝You are not cursed—you are a reaper. You are the night incarnate, the ferrier of souls. You are the bridge between the living and the dead—a caged bird that's ready to fly. So spread your wings, Signa Farrow, because you are limitless. Spread your wings, and oh, how we'll fly.❞

[edwardslovelyelizabeth]

Funny Story by Emily Henry

"He told you to trust him, and that’s what you did,” he insists. “That’s what you’re supposed to be able to do with people you love. They just don’t always live up to it.”

[edelweiss-maiden]

‘𝐼 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑓𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑖𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝐼 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑓𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑒𝑎𝑑’ — daphne du maurier, rebecca (1938)

[littlefoxandthearcher]

Some sketching of Kitt and Winnow as a treat…

Truly cinema -just beautiful cinema.

[p4nicaker]

Now she had found not wine — but Passion and Joy most sharp, and Anguish without end, and Death.

The Romance of Tristan and Iseult by Joseph Bédier

[ariadnethedragon]

THE GENTLEMAN’S GAMBIT by EVIE DUNMORE

“We broke your spectacles, too … I shall fix them for you.”

The Arabic language offered many romantic possibilities, at least eleven different words for love to precisely capture the various stages of the emotion, and perhaps, secretly, she had expected more elaborate verbal wooing from him. Yet here he was, making her swoon with a plain I shall fix them for you.

[acotars]

Read in 2023:

When you’re not around, even for a little while, I feel like I have to go find you. I just feel this pull to be near you. I want to know what you’re thinking, and what you’re up to, and how you feel. I want to take you places and show you things. I want to memorize you—to learn you like a song. And that nightgown, and the way you get so cranky when I leave my stuff all over the place, and the way you tie your hair back in that crazy bun. You make me laugh every single day—and nobody makes me laugh. I feel like I’ve been lost all my life until now—and somehow with you I’m just … found.

THE BODYGUARD by Katherine Center ★★★★★

[bruiselikeviolets]

read in 2024: seven days in june by tia williams

“One thing,” she whispered, her lips by his jaw. She didn’t want anyone to overhear. “Before I forget.” “What’s that?” “Stop writing about me.” [...] In a voice both raspy and low, and so, so familiar, Shane said, “You first.”

[siete-pecados]

BOOKS I READ IN 2024 → Butcher & Blackbird by Brynne Weaver