β
She is free in her wildness, she is a wanderess, a drop of free water. She knows nothing of borders and cares nothing for rules or customs. 'Time' for her isnβt something to fight against. Her life flows clean, with passion, like fresh water.
β
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Roman Payne
β
She was free in her wildness. She was a wanderess, a drop of free water. She belonged to no man and to no city
β
β
Roman Payne (The Wanderess)
β
Why did the mushroom go to the party?
Because he's a fungi!
β
β
One Direction (One Direction: Forever Young: Our Official X Factor Story)
β
You must give everything to make your life as beautiful as the dreams that dance in your imagination.
β
β
Roman Payne
β
Never did the world make a queen of a girl who hides in houses and dreams without traveling.
β
β
Roman Payne (The Wanderess)
β
I wandered everywhere, through cities and countries wide. And everywhere I went, the world was on my side.
β
β
Roman Payne (Rooftop Soliloquy)
β
I was an adventurer, but she was not an adventuress. She was a 'wanderess.' Thus, she didnβt care about money, only experiences - whether they came from wealth or from poverty, it was all the same to her.
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Roman Payne (The Wanderess)
β
A person does not grow from the ground like a vine or a tree, one is not part of a plot of land. Mankind has legs so it can wander.
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Roman Payne (The Wanderess)
β
All forms of madness, bizarre habits, awkwardness in society, general clumsiness, are justified in the person who creates good art.
β
β
Roman Payne (Rooftop Soliloquy)
β
Liam, shut up. I'm trying to do an interview
β
β
Niall Horan
β
Γ, Sunlight! The most precious gold to be found on Earth.
β
β
Roman Payne
β
Dreams are like stars,
you may never catch them
but if you follow them
they will lead you to your destiny.
β
β
Liam Payne
β
Itβs not that we have to quit
this life one day, but itβs how
many things we have to quit
all at once: music, laughter,
the physics of falling leaves,
automobiles, holding hands,
the scent of rain, the concept
of subway trains... if only one
could leave this life slowly!
β
β
Roman Payne (Rooftop Soliloquy)
β
You know I'll be
Your Life
Your Voice
Your Reason To Be
My Love
My Heart
Is Breathing For this
Moment in Time
I'll Find the words to say
Before You leave me Today
β
β
One Direction
β
Itβs not that we have to quit this life one day, itβs how many things we have to quit all at once: holding hands, hotel rooms, music, the physics of falling leaves, vanilla and jasmine, poppies, smiling, anthills, the color of the sky, coffee and cashmere, literature, sparks and subway trains... If only one could leave this life slowly!
β
β
Roman Payne (Hope and Despair)
β
Payne looked back through the glass at the human on the bed. "Yes. I am in love with him. And if you try to dissuade me by the fact that I have not lived yet enough to judge, I say unto you...fuck off.
β
β
J.R. Ward (Lover Unleashed (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #9))
β
Mine was the twilight and the morning. Mine was a world of rooftops and love songs.
β
β
Roman Payne (Rooftop Soliloquy)
β
When she was a child, my love carried a road-map in her hand the way other girls carried handkerchiefs. She always knew the way. Her feet were little wings. And her beautiful head was a compass.
β
β
Roman Payne
β
Harry: Where's Louis?
(Louis suddenly appears.)
Zayn: Louis, where you been?
Liam: How did you get there?
Louis: I don't know.
Liam: Magic carpet, gotta be.
Louis: I don't know.
β
β
One Direction
β
As for you girls, you must risk everything for Freedom, and give everything for Passion, loving everything that your hearts and your bodies love. The only thing higher for a girl and more sacred for a young woman than her freedom and her passion should be her desire to make her life into poetry, surrendering everything she has to create a life as beautiful as the dreams that dance in her imagination.
β
β
Roman Payne
β
Cities were always like people, showing their varying personalities to the traveler. Depending on the city and on the traveler, there might begin a mutual love, or dislike, friendship, or enmity. Where one city will rise a certain individual to glory, it will destroy another who is not suited to its personality. Only through travel can we know where we belong or not, where we are loved and where we are rejected.
β
β
Roman Payne (Cities & Countries)
β
Let's go crazy, crazy, crazy 'til we see the sun. I know we only met but lets pretend its love. And never, never, never stop for anyone. Tonight lets get some and live when we're young! β«
β
β
One Direction
β
I would make Harry my personal slave and would make him drive me places.
β
β
Liam Payne
β
The βMuseβ is not an artistic mystery, but a mathematical equation. The gift are those ideas you think of as you drift to sleep. The giver is that one you think of when you first awake.
β
β
Roman Payne
β
She was a free bird one minute: queen of the world and laughing. The next minute she would be in tears like a porcelain angel, about to teeter, fall and break. She never cried because she was afraid that something 'would' happen; she would cry because she feared something that could render the world more beautiful, 'would not' happen.
β
β
Roman Payne (The Wanderess)
β
What is a Wanderess? Bound by no boundaries, contained by no countries, tamed by no time, she is the force of natureβs course.
β
β
Roman Payne (The Wanderess)
β
If I were to look in you ferigerator....refridgefreetorator...fridge....what would I find?
β
β
Louis Tomlinson
β
Women writers make for rewarding (and efficient) lovers. They are clever liars to fathers and husbands; yet they never hold their tongues too long, nor keep ardent typing fingers still.
β
β
Roman Payne (Rooftop Soliloquy)
β
I'd make Liam my slave and I would make him be my uh personal trainer!
β
β
Zayn Malik
β
Γ, Wanderess, Wanderess
When did you feel your
most euphoric kiss?
Was I the source
of your greatest bliss?
β
β
Roman Payne
β
I've always had a strange fear of spoons.
β
β
Liam Payne
β
In life, more than in anything else, it isnβt easy to end up alive.
β
β
Roman Payne
β
I was surrounded by friends, my work was immense, and pleasures were abundant. Life, now, was unfolding before me, constantly and visibly, like the flowers of summer that drop fanlike petals on eternal soil. Overall, I was happiest to be alone; for it was then I was most aware of what I possessed. Free to look out over the rooftops of the city. Happy to be alone in the company of friends, the company of lovers and strangers. Everything, I decided, in this life, was pure pleasure.
β
β
Roman Payne (Rooftop Soliloquy)
β
Just as a painter paints,
and a ponderer ponders,
a writer writes,
and a wanderer wanders.
β
β
Roman Payne
β
I like the posture, but not the yoga.
I like the inebriated morning, but not the opium. I like the flower but not the garden, the moment but not the dream. Quiet, my love. Be still. I am sleeping.
β
β
Roman Payne
β
When I touched her body,
I believed she was God.
In the curves of her form
I found the birth of Man,
the creation of the world,
and the origin of all life.
β
β
Roman Payne
β
I regained my soul through literature after those times I'd lost it to wild-eyed gypsy girls on the European streets.
β
β
Roman Payne (Rooftop Soliloquy)
β
Payne nailing him in the face woke him up.
George brought him back his independence.
But Beth handed him his crown.
β
β
J.R. Ward (Lover Avenged (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #7))
β
You are perfect for a female."
"Not where I come from."
"Then they're using the wrong standard.
β
β
J.R. Ward (Lover Unleashed (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #9))
β
Oh, I think not,β Varys said, swirling the wine in his cup. βPower is a curious thing, my lord. Perchance you have considered the riddle I posed you that day in the inn?β
βIt has crossed my mind a time or two,β Tyrion admitted. βThe king, the priest, the rich manβwho lives and who dies? Who will the swordsman obey? Itβs a riddle without an answer, or rather, too many answers. All depends on the man with the sword.β
βAnd yet he is no one,β Varys said. βHe has neither crown nor gold nor favor of the gods, only a piece of pointed steel.β
βThat piece of steel is the power of life and death.β
βJust soβ¦ yet if it is the swordsmen who rule us in truth, why do we pretend our kings hold the power? Why should a strong man with a sword ever obey a child king like Joffrey, or a wine-sodden oaf like his father?β
βBecause these child kings and drunken oafs can call other strong men, with other swords.β
βThen these other swordsmen have the true power. Or do they?β Varys smiled. βSome say knowledge is power. Some tell us that all power comes from the gods. Others say it derives from law. Yet that day on the steps of Baelorβs Sept, our godly High Septon and the lawful Queen Regent and your ever-so-knowledgeable servant were as powerless as any cobbler or cooper in the crowd. Who truly killed Eddard Stark, do you think? Joffrey, who gave the command? Ser Ilyn Payne, who swung the sword? Orβ¦ another?β
Tyrion cocked his head sideways. βDid you mean to answer your damned riddle, or only to make my head ache worse?β
Varys smiled. βHere, then. Power resides where men believe it resides. No more and no less.β
βSo power is a mummerβs trick?β
βA shadow on the wall,β Varys murmured, βyet shadows can kill. And ofttimes a very small man can cast a very large shadow.β
Tyrion smiled. βLord Varys, I am growing strangely fond of you. I may kill you yet, but I think Iβd feel sad about it.β
βI will take that as high praise.
β
β
George R.R. Martin (A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, #2))
β
We were hooked when we woke.
We had arms for each other.
But I yearned to resume
My dreams of another.
β
β
Roman Payne
β
Made a lot of changes
But not forgetting who i was
β
β
One Direction
β
I'd be a birthday cake!
β
β
Liam Payne
β
I would... learn how to drive... have a nice car... and drive it.
β
β
Liam Payne
β
To wander is to be alive.
β
β
Roman Payne (The Love of Europa: Limited Time Edition (Only the First Chapters))
β
There is something beautiful about a blank canvas, the nothingness of the beginning that is so simple and breathtakingly pure. Itβs the paint that changes its meaning and the hand that creates the story. Every piece begins the same, but in the end they are all uniquely different.
β
β
Piper Payne
β
This was how it was with travel: one city gives you gifts, another robs you. One gives you the heartβs affections, the other destroys your soul. Cities and countries are as alive, as feeling, as fickle and uncertain as people. Their degrees of love and devotion are as varying as with any human relation. Just as one is good, another is bad.
β
β
Roman Payne (Cities & Countries)
β
People wonder why so many writers come to live in Paris. Iβve been living ten years in Paris and the answer seems simple to me: because itβs the best place to pick ideas. Just like Italy, Spain.. or Iran are the best places to pick saffron. If you want to pick opium poppies you go to Burma or South-East Asia. And if you want to pick novel ideas, you go to Paris.
β
β
Roman Payne (Crepuscule)
β
The male's diamond eyes locked on Payne, and though she hadn't seen him in forever, she knew who he was. Sure as if she was staring at her own reflection. Tears sprang unbidden to her eyes for last she had known, he breathed no longer. "Vishous," she whispered desperately. "Oh, brother mine...
β
β
J.R. Ward (Lover Mine (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #8))
β
Whenever I'm sad I just imagine if babies were born with mustaches.
β
β
Liam Payne
β
In my experience, when a woman's cruelty is combined with love and devotion, it is almost always without exception an act performed not out of treachery, but as a painful self-sacrifice for the good of her beloved, to obtain for him a future bounty where he would not know how to obtain it for himself, or have the courage, patience, or foresight to obtain it. Womankind always seems to be able to see a dozen steps into the future, far ahead of what men are able to see. And they have strength where we do not.
β
β
Roman Payne (The Wanderess)
β
Alexander the Great slept with 'The Iliad' beneath his pillow. During the waning moon, I cradle Homerβs 'Odyssey' as if it were the sweet body of a woman.
β
β
Roman Payne (Rooftop Soliloquy)
β
Independence isn't doing your own thing; it's doing the right thing on your own.
β
β
Kim John Payne
β
She was a free bird: queen of the world and laughing.
β
β
Roman Payne (The Wanderess)
β
All I want in this life are three...
a moonlit beach on the starlit sea,
a breath of opium,
and thee.
β
β
Roman Payne
β
From all that I saw, and everywhere I wandered, I learned that time cannot be spent. It can only be squandered.
β
β
Roman Payne
β
She was so delicate that, while we sat beneath the linden branches, a leaf would fall and drift down and touch her skin, and it would leave a bruise. So as we sat in the afternoon hour, beneath that fragrant linden bower, I had to chase all of the leafs that fell away.
β
β
Roman Payne
β
I'm not perfect.
Never have been.
Never will be.
~ Louis Tomlinson
β
β
Louis Tomlinson
β
She called herself an angel, and wandered the world from girlhood till death. She lived every kind of life and dreamt every kind of dream. She was wild in her wandering, a drop of free water. She believed only in her life and in her dreams. She called herself an angel, and her god was Beauty.
β
β
Roman Payne
β
It's On Like Donkey Kong.
β
β
Liam Payne
β
The strongest people arenβt always the people who win, but the people who donβt give up when they lose
β
β
Liam Payne
β
Our lips were for each other and our eyes were full of dreams. We knew nothing of travel and we knew nothing of loss. Ours was a world of eternal spring, until the summer came.
β
β
Roman Payne (Hope and Despair)
β
With her enchanting songs, her rare beauty, and clever tricks, this wild 'wanderess' ensnared my soul like a gypsy-thief, and led me foolish and blind to where you find me now. The first time I saw her, fires were alight. It was a spicy night in Barcelona. The air was fragrant and free.
β
β
Roman Payne (The Wanderess)
β
In my errant life I roamed
To learn the secrets of women and men,
Of gods and dreams.
I've known all the countries of our world,
I've lived a thousand lives:
Many lives I lived in love,
Other lives I squandered.
For in my life I never traveled,
All I did was wander.
β
β
Roman Payne (The Wanderess)
β
Wandering is the activity of the child, the passion of the genius; it is the discovery of the self, the discovery of the outside world, and the learning of how the self is both "at one with" and "separate from" the outside world. These discoveries are as fundamental to the soul as "learning to survive" is fundamental to the body. These discoveries are essential to realizing what it means to be human. To wander is to be alive.
β
β
Roman Payne (The Love of Europa: Limited Time Edition (Only the First Chapters))
β
I know a girl from whose body sunbeams rose to the clouds as if theyβd fallen from the sun.
Her laugh was like a bangle of bells.
βYour hair is wet,β I told her one day, βDid you take a bath?β
βIt is dew!β she laughed, βIβve been lying in the grass. All morning long, I lay here waiting for the dawn.
β
β
Roman Payne
β
If I got to you once, I can do it again. And maybe next time I wonβt waste my breath trying to prove the fact that Iβm your equal.β
βI am the King, you realize.β
βAnd Iβm the daughter of a deity, motherfucker.
β
β
J.R. Ward (The King (Black Dagger Brotherhood #12))
β
I was forced to wander, having no one, forced by my nature to keep wandering because wandering was the only thing that I believed in, and the only thing that believed in me.
β
β
Roman Payne
β
Sexual frenzy is our compensation for the tedious moments we must suffer in the passage of life. 'Nothing in excess,' professed the ancient Greeks. Why if I spend half the month in healthy scholarship and pleasant sleep, shouldn't I be allowed the other half to howl at the moon and pillage the groins of Europe's great beauties?
β
β
Roman Payne
β
She wakes in a puddle of sunlight.
Her hands asleep beside her.
Her hair draped on the lawn
like a mantle of cloth.
β
β
Roman Payne (Hope and Despair)
β
A woman must prefer her liberty over a man. To be happy, she must.
A man to be happy, however, must yearn for his woman more than his liberty.
This is the rightful order.
β
β
Roman Payne (Hope and Despair)
β
She was free in her wildness. She was a wanderess, a drop of free water. She belonged to no man and to no city.
β
β
Roman Payne (The Wanderess)
β
When she was a child,
my love carried a road map in her hand
the way other girls carried handkerchiefs.
β
β
Roman Payne (The Wanderess)
β
Some people see the glass as half-empty, while others see it as half-full. But Jones stares at it and tries to figure out who drank the damn water.
β
β
Chris Kuzneski (Sign of the Cross (Payne & Jones, #2))
β
To wish a healthy man to die is the wish from a mind of sickness. To wish an ailing man to die is the wish of the ambitious.
β
β
Roman Payne
β
I would do anything for you. Anything."
With that, he pushed his way out...and as the door eased shut, she realized that I love you could indeed be said without actually uttering the phrase.
Actions did mean more than words.
β
β
J.R. Ward (Lover Unleashed (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #9))
β
Dreams are like stars,
you may never catch them
but if you follow them
they will lead you to your
destiny
β
β
Liam Payne
β
Vas happening Selene?
β
β
Liam Payne
β
I have found that people who can successfully resist temptation invariably lead depressingly stunted lives.
β
β
C.D. Payne (Youth in Revolt: The Journals of Nick Twisp, Book One)
β
The lot of the bride
to be wed before bed
desired until rotten.
The lot of the author
to be read before bed
admired then forgotten.
β
β
Roman Payne
β
SAUL: 'We made love outdoors, my favorite place to make love, assuming the weather be fair and balmy, and the earth beneath be clean. Our souls intertwined and dripping with sweat.
β
β
Roman Payne
β
Who is better off? The one who writes to revel in the voluptuousness of the life that surrounds them? Or the one who writes to escape the tediousness of that which awaits them outside? Whose flame will last longer?
β
β
Roman Payne
β
Champagne arrived in flΓ»tes on trays, and we emptied them with gladness in our hearts... for when feasts are laid and classical music is played, where champagne is drunk once the sun has sunk and the season of summer is alive in spicy bloom, and beautiful women fill the room, and are generous with laughter and smiles... these things fill men's hearts with joy and remind one that lifeβs bounty is not always fleeting but can be captured, and enjoyed. It is in writing about this scene that I relive this night in my soul.
β
β
Roman Payne
β
Why do we mortals wonder if it is through 'human chaos' or through 'divine perfection' when the world guides us to some magical event? In either case, is not the result the same? Is the result not 'divine perfection?
β
β
Roman Payne (The Wanderess)
β
They say Alexander the Great slept with 'The Iliad' beneath his pillow. Though I have never led an army, I am a wanderer. During the waning moon, I cradle Homerβs 'Odyssey' as if it were the sweet body of a woman.
β
β
Roman Payne (Rooftop Soliloquy)
β
When I met a truly beautiful girl, I would tell her that if she spent the night with me, I would write a novel or a story about her. This usually worked; and if her name was to be in the title of the story, it almost always worked. Then, later, when we'd passed a night of delicious love-making together, after sheβd gone and Iβd felt that feeling of happiness mixed with sorrow, I sometimes would write a book or story about her. Sometimes her character, her way about herself, her love-making, it sometimes marked me so heavily that I couldn't go on in life and be happy unless I wrote a book or a story about that woman, the happy and sad memory of that woman. That was the only way to keep her, and to say goodbye to her without her ever leaving.
β
β
Roman Payne
β
Sister," he murmured, not as an inquiry, but a statement of fact. "Brother mine," she groaned... before her consciousness slipped from her grasp and she drifted away. But she would come back to him. One way or the other, she would not leave her twin ever again.
β
β
J.R. Ward (Lover Mine (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #8))
β
It is growing cold. Winter is putting footsteps in the meadow. What whiteness boasts that sun that comes into this wood! One would say milk-colored maidens are dancing on the petals of orchids. How coldly burns our sun! One would say its rays of light are shards of snow, one imagines the sun lives upon a snow crested peak on this day. One would say she is a woman who wears a gown of winter frost that blinds the eyes. Helplessness has weakened me. Wandering has wearied my legs.
β
β
Roman Payne
β
Iβve seen knives pierce the chest,
Children dying in the road
Crawling things hooked and baited,
Rapists bound and then castrated,
Villains singed in public square.
Yet none these sights did make me cringe
Like when my Love cut all her hair.
β
β
Roman Payne
β
The day came when she discovered sex, sensuality, and literature; she said, 'I submit! Let my life be henceforth ruled by poetry. Let me reign as the queen of my dreams until I become nothing less than the heroine of God.
β
β
Roman Payne
β
I once had a love who folded secrets between her thighs like napkins
and concealed memories in the valley of her breasts.
There was no match for the freckles on her chest,
and no one could mistake them for a field of honeysuckles.
Upon her lips, a thousand lies were spread in sweet gloss.
Her kiss was like a storybook from ancient history.
She was at home with the body of a man inside her, beside her.
At night, when she lay in bed crying,
no one could mistake the tears she wept for a summer shower
She is gone, my love. She was a wanderess, a wildflower.
β
β
Roman Payne
β
She is my morning, she is my evening; we have a love that blooms over and again, more beautifully each time than the last. You will see that we are not lovers like others, for whom love is both a punishment and a gift⦠Our love has never punished, only rewarded. Such love therein lies the eudaimonic life.
β
β
Roman Payne (The Wanderess)
β
There are hours for rest, and hours for wakefulness; nights for sobriety and nights for drunkennessβ(if only so that possession of the former allows us to discern the latter when we have it; for sad as it is, no human body can be happily drunk all the time).
β
β
Roman Payne (Rooftop Soliloquy)
β
Did I live the spring Iβd sought?
Itβs true in joy, I walked along,
took part in dance,
and sang the song.
and never tried to bind an hour
to my borrowed garden bower;
nor did I once entreat
a day to slumber at my feet.
Yet days arenβt lulled by lyric song,
like morning birds they pass along,
oβer crests of trees, to none belong;
oβer crests of trees of drying dew,
their larking flight, my hands, eschew
Thus Iβll say it once and trueβ¦
From all that I saw,
and everywhere I wandered,
I learned that time cannot be spent,
It only can be squandered.
β
β
Roman Payne (Rooftop Soliloquy)
β
Rest in Peace?β Why that phrase? Thatβs the most ridiculous phrase Iβve ever heard! You die, and they say βRest in Peace!β β¦Why would one need to βrestβ when theyβre dead?! I spent thousands of years of world history resting. While Agamemnon was leading his ships to Troy, I was resting. While Ovid was seducing women at the chariot races, I was resting. While Jeanne dβArc was hallucinating, I was resting. I wait until airplanes are scuttling across the sky to burst out onto the scene, and Iβm only going to be here for a short while, so when I die, I certainly wonβt need to rest again! Not while more adventures of the same kind are going on.
β
β
Roman Payne (Rooftop Soliloquy)
β
For shitβs sake, it wasnβt like there was a twelve-step for being the Scribe Virginβs kid:
Hi, Iβm Vishous. Iβm her son and Iβve been her son for three hundred years.
HI, VISHOUS.
Sheβs done a head job on me again, and Iβm trying not to go to the Other Side and scream bloody murder at her.
WE UNDERSTAND, VISHOUS.
And on the bloody note, Iβd like to dig up my father and kill him all over again, but I canβt. So Iβm just going to try to keep my sister alive even though sheβs paralyzed, and attempt to fight the urge to find some pain so I can deal with this Payne.
YOUβRE A STRAIGHT-UP PUSSY, VISHOUS, BUT WE SUPPORT YOUR SORRY ASS.
β
β
J.R. Ward (Lover Unleashed (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #9))
β
The season was waning fast
Our nights were growing cold at last
I took her to bed with silk and song,
'Lay still, my love, I wonβt be long;
I must prepare my body for passion.'
'O, your body you give, but all else you ration.'
'It is because of these dreams of a sylvan scene:
A bleeding nymph to leave me serene...
I have dreams of a trembling wench.'
'You have dreams,' she said, 'that cannot be quenched.'
'Our passion,' said I, 'should never be feared;
As our longing for love can never be cured.
Our want is our way and our way is our will,
We have the love, my love, that no one can kill.'
'If night is your love, then in dreams youβll fulfill...
This love, our love, that no one can kill.'
Yet want is my way, and my way is my will,
Thus I killed my love with a sleeping pill.
β
β
Roman Payne
β
You hand fits in mine like its made to be but bear this in mind it was meant to be and im joining up the dots with the freckles on you cheeks and it all makes sense to me. I know you've never loved the crinkles by your eyes when you smile you've never loved your stomach or your thighs and the dimples in your back at the bottom of your spine but I love them endlessly.I won't let these little things slip out of my mouth but if i do its you oh its you they add up to and Im in love with you and all your little thing. You can't go to bed without a cup of tea and maybe thats the reason that you talk in you sleep and all those conversations are the secrets that I keep though it makes no sense to me. I know you've never loved the sound of your voice on tape you never want to know how much you weigh you still have to squeeze into to your jeans but you're perfect to me. I won't let these little things slip out of my mouth but if its true its you its these they add up to and Im in love with you and all you little things. You'll never love yourself half as much as I love you and you'll never treat yourself right darlin' but I want you to if I let you know I'm here for you then maybe you'll love yourself like I love you ohhhhh. And I've just let these little things slip out of my mouth cause its you oh its you its you they add up to and Im in love with you and all your little things I wont let these little things slip out of my mouth but if its true its you its you they add up to and im in love with you and all your little things. <3
β
β
One Direction
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I fancied my luck to be witnessing yet another full moon. True, Iβd seen hundreds of full moons in my life, but they were not limitless. When one starts thinking of the full moon as a common sight that will come again to oneβs eyes ad-infinitum, the value of life is diminished and life goes by uncherished. βThis may be my last moon,β I sighed, feeling a sudden sweep of sorrow; and went back to reading more of The Odyssey.
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Roman Payne
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Without knowing why or how, I found myself in love with this strange Wanderess. Maybe I was just in love with the dream she was selling me: a life of destiny and fate; as my own life up until we met had been so void of enchantment. Those things: mystery, fate, enchantment... they are things that young people offer us as soon as we get close to them. And if we're not careful, we can be seduced by, and drawn back into, the youthful world they preside over.
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Roman Payne (The Wanderess)