“You’re such a swan in this light,” he whispered after a moment. There were silences as murmurous as sound. There were pauses that seemed about to shatter and were only to snatched back to oblivion by the tightening of his arms about her and the sense that she was resting there as a caught, gossamer feather, drifted in out of the dark. Anthony laughed, noiselessly and exultantly, turning his face up and away from her, half in an overpowering rush of triumph, half lest her sight of him should spoil the splendid immobility of her expression. Such a kiss - it was a flower held against the face, never to be described, scarcely to be remembered; as though her beauty were giving off emanations of itself which settled transiently and already dissolving upon his heart.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
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Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill,
Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.
~Rupert Brooke
Well uh two updates in one night. Please don’t faint! 
I thought, before I forget I’d tell you that I’ve added two more journal designs to my Cafepress store, they are the following and you can click on them to go to their pages which will open in new windows, enjoy and feel free to buy. 
Money helps feed me and keep the domain up.
