...while Norah described to me her plans for carpets and curtains, or showed me the sample of bedspread material she had hung over a chair to see if she could live with it. When I began to know her, I wondered if their courtship had been, for her, something of the same -- my brother draped over a chair for the statutory length of time, to see if she could live with him. In that case she might have noticed that he did not really go with the surroundings; perhaps she did see this, but knew that he would fade to a better match.
Shirley HazzardTag: courtship decorating sister-in-law
I profess not to know how women’s hearts are wooed and won. To me they have always been matters of riddle and admiration. Some seem to have but one vulnerable point, or door of access; while others have a thousand avenues, and may be captured in a thousand different ways. It is a great triumph of skill to gain the former, but a still greater proof of generalship to maintain possession of the latter, for man must battle for his fortress at every door and window. He who wins a thousand common hearts is therefore entitled to some renown; but he who keeps undisputed sway over the heart of a coquette is indeed a hero.
Washington IrvingTag: humor women courting courtship humor-relationships
Each time a girl approached the table, Mortimer would smile. Like this: And each time the girl would shriek and run away.
Kelly DiPucchioTag: love courtship zombies smiles
It would be a primal offering of food from man to woman and a satisfyingly primitive declaration of intent. However, he mused, one could never be sure these days who would be offended by being handed a dead mallard bleeding from a breast full of tooth-breaking shot and sticky about the neck with dog saliva.
Helen SimonsonShe had surrendered her virtue at six-and-ten, to a beautiful blond-haired sailor on a trading galley up from Lys. He only knew six words of the Common Tongue, but “fuck” was one of them—the very word she’d hoped to hear.
George R.R. MartinWith his eyes and those hands there won't be a woman safe in all the world when he starts hunting after the ladies.'
'Courting, dear,' my father corrected gently.
'Semantics,' she shrugged.
Tag: humor romance humour courting courtship kvothe the-name-of-the-wind kingkiller-chronicle
He's already chasing you. Now all you have to do is keep running. Just not too fast.
Tammara WebberI can't count the men who have tried to seduce me away from my virtue by teaching me how to defend it.
Patrick RothfussTag: deception virtue courtship
Careful,” he said. “If you keep blushing like that I may do more than just draw you.
Nenia CampbellTag: courting courtship creepy pickup-lines
You're like a half-tamed creature, still shy of the bridle. 'Except you enthrall me, never shall be free.' But freedom is an illusion, anyway.
Nenia CampbellTag: dating courtship dangerous scary creepy evil-men
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