Narihira Ariwara Quotes & Sayings

It wasn't a "Eureka!" kind of moment - it was the slow realization that the parts of me that had been empty were starting to fill up again. Yet, as gradual as this all was, there was one surreal moment that crystallized it for me - one moment where I suddenly understood what Idol meant to people and what it was doing for me. — Jennifer Lopez

I am not loitering" said the Major. "I am simply indulging in a few moments of pastoral solitude"... — Helen Simonson

She couldn't imagine how anyone would want to forego the intimate experience of a book - pages whispering between the fingers, hurried glances at the colorful cover before immersing oneself again. — Melissa De La Cruz

Many hours of law-school argumentation have been spent on what to do with a man who stabs a corpse thinking it is his sleeping enemy, or whether it makes sense to charge a shooter with attempted murder if the nearest hospital is five minutes away and his victim survives, but to charge him with murder if the nearest hospital is fifteen minutes away and the victim succumbs. — Steven Pinker

I have always known that at last I would take this road, but yesterday I did not know that it would be today. — Ariwara No Narihira

But Pooky Bear made me special. I was more than just a girl with it. I was an angel killer. — Susan Ee

When his mouth was on hers, when he could feel her about to shatter yet again, he plunged into her, knocking her over the edge with that first rough stroke.
And still he thought: More.
Even as she shuddered, he shoved her knees up and went deeper inside her. His vision blurred, but through the red haze of lust he could see her eyes. Deep, dark, glazed like glass to throw his own reflection back at him.
"I'm inside you." He panted it out as he pushed them both to madness. "Everything I am. Body, heart, mind."
She struggled through layers of pleasure to say the one thing he needed. Her hands wrapped around his wrists to hold the beat of his blood. "Let go. I'll stay with you."
He pressed his face to her hair, let both heart and mind go, and let body rule them both. — J.D. Robb

If there were no
cherry blossoms
in this world
How much more tranquil
our hearts would be in spring. — Ariwara No Narihira

Ah, if in this world there were no such thing as cherry blossoms, perhaps then in springtime our hearts would be at peace. — Ariwara No Narihira