Adoro Lei Quotes & Sayings

I give myself up to darkness; and wish I may never again be required to lift my head to the light. — Sarah Waters

Recalling, some time later, what I had felt at the time, I distinguished the impression of having been held for a moment in her mouth, myself, naked, without any of the social attributes which belonged equally to her other playmates and, when she used my surname, to my parents, accessories of which her lips - by the effort she made, a little after her father's manner, to articulate the words to which she wished to give a special emphasis - had the air of stripping, of divesting me, like the skin from a fruit of which one can swallow only the pulp, while her glance, adapting itself to the same new degree of intimacy as her speech, fell on me also more directly and testified to the consciousness, the pleasure, even the gratitude that it felt by accompanying itself with a smile. — Marcel Proust

One death to a man is a serious thing: a dozen neutralize one another. — Richard Francis Burton

As ordeals and duels gave way to confession as a proof of guilt, judicial torture was actually increasing in France. — Eric Jager

An alibi is one alliterative consonant short of being a magic carpet — Josh Stern

I wish I was a more adventurous person in a way. But actually, security is a really big deal for me. — Romola Garai

The earthly paradise had been discredited at exactly the moment when it became realisable. — George Orwell