Sorry I missed posting on Monday, but I’m plugging away on Walter and Kevin’s story to meet my last writing goal for the year: finishing the first draft of this novel. Two days to go. Not sure I’ll make it, but I should be pretty close by the end of the day on Friday. Then I’ll be in editing mode.

Today I wrote a couple of passion-filled scenes. I was pretty happy with how they turned out (even in this first draft), so I felt like sharing a quote about love and passion today.

“Life would not be complete without the smell of your hair, the touch of your hand, the taste of your lips.The beating of your heart, your breath, as you rest on my chest. To hear your sighs and feel the passion, desires coming from within…I know men have surely died for less.”

Author Unknown

“The heart is the place where we live our passions. It is frail and easily broken, but wonderfully resilient. There is no point in trying to deceive the heart. It depends upon our honesty for its survival.”

-Leo Buscaglia

This one reminds me of how important it is to be true to who we are, to live our lives with as much passion and honesty as possible.

Sloan

“Love me without fear
Trust me without questioning
Need me without demanding
Want me without restrictions
Accept me without change
Desire me without inhibitions
For a love so free…
Will never fly away.”

Dick Sutphen

Hope you all find a lover who strives for such a state.
Sloan

“There’s this place in me where your fingerprints still rest, your kisses still linger, and your whispers softly echo. It’s the place where a part of you will forever be a part of me.”

Gretchen Kemp

This one reminds me of Jay and Lincoln from Breathe.
Sloan

Once a week I post a quote I love. It may be related to writing, inspiration, lgbt issues, my own life, or anything else that interests me. So here’s this week’s Quote I Love…

I’ve been working on revisions for my current work-in-progress, Breathe. Part of the goal of this last round of edits was to increase the romantic tension and build up the emotion in every scene.

Focusing on the love and desire in my work puts me in a romantic mood, so today I’m sharing some of my favorite quotes about love and passion.

Hope you enjoy these.

“And sometimes when we touch
The honesty’s too much
And I have to close my eyes and hide
I wanna hold you til I die
Til we both break down and cry
I wanna hold you till the fear in me subsides”
— Dan Hill

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“You’re nothing short of my everything.”
— Ralph Block

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“We are each of us angels with only one wing.
And we can only fly while embracing each other.”
— Lucian de Croszonza

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“We lie in each other’s arms
eyes shut and fingers open and
all the colors of the world
pass through our bodies like strings of fire.”
— Marge Piercy

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“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.”
— Aristotle

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“You were made perfectly to be loved – and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.”
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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“I love you not only for what you are,
But for what I am when I’m with you.”
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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“What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.”
— Henry Ward Beecher

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“Where there is smoke, there’s fire. Where there’s you, there’s desire.”
— Unknown

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“Passion… it can hurt so much sometimes, we can hardly stand it. Without passion, maybe we could all have some sort of peace in this life… but then, we’d be hollow. Without passion, we would be dead.”
— Unknown

Aren’t they lovely? Hope you enjoyed them.

Sloan Parker