ROMEO
If I profane with my unworthiest hand
This holy shrine, the gentle fine is this:
My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand
To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.
JULIET
Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much,
Which mannerly devotion shows in this;
For saints have hands that pilgrims’ hands do touch,
And palm to palm is holy palmers’ kiss.
ROMEO
Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too?
JULIET
Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer.
ROMEO
O, then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do;
They pray, grant thou, lest faith turn to despair.
JULIET
Saints do not move, though grant for prayers’ sake.
ROMEO
Then move not, while my prayer’s effect I take.
Thus from my lips, by yours, my sin is purged.
JULIET
Then have my lips the sin that they have took.
ROMEO
Sin from thy lips? O trespass sweetly urged!
Give me my sin again.
JULIET
You kiss by the book.
Romeo and Juliet By William Shakespeare
These violent delights have violent ends
And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,
Which, as they kiss, consume.
When Romeo first lays eyes on the bewitching Juliet, it's love at first sight. But though their love runs true and deep, it is also completely forbidden. With family and fate determined to keep them apart, will Romeo and Juliet find a way to be together?
William Shakespeare's masterpiece is one of the most enduring stories of star-crossed love of all time. Beautifully presented for a modern teen audience with both the original play and a prose retelling of the beloved story, this is the must-have edition of a timeless classic.
“Scarlett O’Hara, you’re a fool!”
Before she could withdraw her mind from its far places, his arms were around her, as sure and hard as on the dark road to Tara, so long ago. She felt again the rush of helplessness, the sinking yielding, the surging tide of warmth that left her limp. And the quiet face of Ashley Wilkes was blurred and drowned to nothingness. He bent back her head across his arm and kissed her, softly at first, and then with a swift gradation of intensity that made her cling to him as the only solid thing in a dizzy swaying world. His insistent mouth was parting her shaking lips, sending wild tremors along her nerves, evoking from her sensations she had never known she was capable of feeling. And before a swimming giddiness spun her round and round, she knew that she was kissing him back.
“Stop–please, I’m faint!” she whispered, trying to turn her head weakly from him. He pressed her head back hard against his shoulder and she had a dizzy glimpse of his face. His eyes were wide and blazing queerly and the tremor in his arms frightened her.
“I want to make you faint. I will make you faint. You’ve had this coming to you for years. None of the fools you’ve known have kissed you like this–have they? Your precious Charles or Frank or your stupid Ashley–”
“Please–”
“I said your stupid Ashley. Gentlemen all–what do they know about women? What did they know about you? I know you.”
The book was first published in 1936, this book is a historical novel set against the dramatic backdrop of the American Civil War. It tells the love story of Scarlett O'Hara and Rhett Butler. To click link belowrder
Thank you to the fellow authors who listened to me (private writer's forum) voicing some self doubts last night and advised me. xxxx. Yes I do suffer from doubts at times. I was also stalling in my learning curve and found this frustrating as I long to improve my writing and I can only do this if I receive constructive criticism - that - when I ask for it is the one thing I value the most at this stage of my career.
Thank you to all who have given me this in the past. Thank you to any who can still give me this. Please do not be concerned about offending me. I can only learn if I know how to improve and as every parent knows, they cannot see anything but beauty in their own baby and my novel is my 'baby,' and I need to know if it has any flaws I can improve.
I am going to to 'find' new areas to learn about the art of writing, I need that learning curve to give me a buzz again.
Are you having trouble finding time to do things?
Try the Egg Timer Method
"Egg timer method" of writing.
Set an egg timer for one hour and sit down to write until the timer rings. If when the timer rings you do not want to stop then keep writing.
Instead of an egg timer, you can put a load of clothes in the washer or dryer or turn the dishwasher on and use these to time your work.
You can apply that to any task you have trouble beginning, jogging on a treadmill or getting the checkbook balanced.
Alternating physical chores with sedentary ones is a great healthy lifestyle model too.
The parents of murdered teenager Daniel Morcombe tour schools and give advice to children and parents.
DENISE and Bruce Morcombe are going on a 4000km road trip. They have planned school presentations focused on child safety.
Two great tips from the Morcombe family visit to the school:
1. When telling kids to run to a house for help, tell them to choose the neatest looking house they can find, eg lawns mowed (looks guiltily at our often overgrown lawns)
2. Even if no one answers the door start banging on the windows as this makes it appear that it could be your house
Great simple tips huh?
I especially liked that they pointed out that before you go running screaming down the street you should look to see if the car going slow might not just be looking for a friends house etc.
Don't let it stress you - get a real life.
Here is the advice I gave a friend on facebook who was stressed out over having been unfreinded.
I must admit I don't 'mess' with people who friend me and then begin spamming a book though the messages, they are always deleted. I always delete people I do not know well or learn from who abuse people or are consistently negative or swear profusely and not in a funny way. I
don't have a problem with people unfriending me - fact is I never look at the numbers to know and I believe it is wise to un friend if you do not have any advantage to having someone there as a friend.
Now you have made a positive contribution to my live in that you have taken the time to reply to posts I have made regarding my novel writing ad I believe I have tried to encourage you with yours.
I never helped out with reviewing your story as I simply have a long reading list I do need to get though and that doesn't allow me time to read for friends. That's an acceptance of my own limits so I didn't take thigs personally that you would have liked more people to read your story and vote for it.
I enjoy having you as a friend but my comment is, 'this is only unfriending ' no one has time to be friends with everyone, it isn't personal when we friend or unfriending people here, it is networking and we really should preserve our time and only network with people where there is a mutual benefit and not get involved in personal issues - that's what real life is for :-). Don't let friending or unfriending on facebook, 'get to you,'
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