Raine Quotes

I find that women want to tell me about their birthing experiences. In the most excruciating detail. It's not put me off having children, but I do feel like I know too much. ~ Jessica Raine

My eyes have really only been opened since you came into my world. You gave me everything. You made me really want to see what was around me, for the first time in my adult life. You made me want you. You made me want ... a life. You were my greatest give of all, Ethan James Blackstone." She reached up to touch my face and held her palm there, her eyes showing me so much of what she felt.
I covered her palm on my cheek with my hand. "As you were for me, my beautiful American girl. ~ Raine Miller

You flunked out of Being a Human 101 but aced Assholery III? The sarcastic sneer on her lovely lips was sexy as fuck and I couldn't help laughing at the witty comeback. ~ Raine Miller

It was good. We were so good.
"Is this all right?" I asked her.
She nodded back. "Love me."
"I do. I will. Always. ~ Raine Miller

The one who had the power to take me apart was also the only one with the power to put me back together again. ~ Raine Miller

Despite the whole mess tonight, he had me in his arms and underneath him, his commanding strength taking charge in the way it'd been from the beginning. ~ Raine Miller

Bossy James was hotter than hell and slapped every sexual button. Hard. ~ Raine Miller

My position was simple, really. I didn't care about her past. It changed nothing in my feelings for her. She was the one-the one person I needed to be with. Now it was just a matter of convincing her of this fact. And I will ... because I love her. ~ Raine Miller

Here she is at her kitchen table, fingering a jigsaw of thalidomide ginger, thinking about the arthritis in her hands. ~ Craig Raine

I lifted my eyes and got that wave of emotion again as his blues found me. I loved him so much I knew the fear. I'd heard others speak about it. I'd read about it in books. Now I understood. The fear that you have when you finally give your heart away to another person. It makes you very vulnerable to loss. If you never love anyone, then you'll never be hurt when they don't love you back or when they leave you. I finally had the practical experience of understanding. It sucked. ~ Raine Miller

She rang me that afternoon on my mobile. I missed her call because of an idiot meeting. I wanted to hurt the morons who'd taken my time ... ~ Raine Miller

when the sun goes down keep on shining through the night :) ~ Raine

People let you down. That includes family. ~ Charlotte Raine

The two of you came this close to getting torn to shreds! Your father just found you, and he doesn't want to lose you. Do you have any idea what he has been through to protect you since you got here?"
[...]
"No." Talon's voice was subdued, but only slightly. Teenage defiance still seethed beneath the surface. "He didn't tell me."
I leaned back in my chair, blew out my breath, and closed my eyes. "And he probably won't." Tired had surrendered to exhausted. "He wouldn't want you to worry. Because he loves you."
When Talon didn't respond, I opened one eye and looked at him. "He hasn't told you that, either, has he?" I asked wearily.
"Not exactly."
My elbow was resting on the chair arm, and I dropped my head onto my upraised hand. I snorted. "Not exactly." I shook my head. "Men." I didn't lift my head off my hand; it felt too good to be resting on something. I turned it about an inch and I could see Piaras just fine.
His face was a shade or two short of a full, blazing blush. "I know you do." His words tumbled out in a rush. "You don't have to tell me. ~ Lisa Shearin

Holy shit, my sister was right. The hormones make you pregnant females wild for cock. I might die from so much sex. ~ Raine Miller

I'm staying here," I said into her ear as I pushed with my hips. Raine let out a short laugh and wriggled her backside a little.
"I'm okay with that," she responded. "You feel so good there. I honestly didn't think you were going to fit!"
"I'm really glad I do," I said, "because I'm staying right here for as long as possible. ~ Shay Savage

Cheers, Tom. I'm shagging your daughter again. Oh, and before I forget, you must know that her safety is completely in my hands now. Did I also mention that she is mine? Mine, Tom. I keep what's mine very close and very safe. ~ Raine Miller

Are you ready?"
I nodded and whispered, "Yes."
"And nothing changes us."
"Nothing changes that we love each other. ~ Raine Miller

Because I want you again. I want in you again. I want to make you come with my cock so deep you'll never forget I was there. I want to come inside you, Brynne, and feel that with you. ~ Raine Miller

Tim and Raine are coming in."
"Are they insane?"
"Apparently. ~ Susan Bischoff

Do you trust me?" Tam said it almost too softly to be heard.
I hesitated, sighed, then reached down and took his hand. Tam's fingers wrapped warm and strong around mine. The magic sparked between us, though this time it was warm and tingling, not violent and lustful.
"Though you're the last thing I need," I muttered.
I heard the smile in his voice. "But I'm the first thing you want. ~ Lisa Shearin

Miss Sedley was almost as flurried at the act of defiance as Miss Jemima had been; for, consider, it was but one minute that she had left school, and the impressions of six years are not got over in that space of time. Nay, with some persons those awes and terrors of youth last for ever and ever. I know, for instance, an old gentleman of sixty-eight, who said to me one morning at breakfast, with a very agitated countenance, 'I dreamed last night that I was flogged by Dr Raine.' Fancy had carried him back five-and-fifty years in the course of that evening. Dr Raine and his rod were just as awful to him in his heart then, at sixty-eight, as they had been at thirteen. If the Doctor, with a large birch, had appeared bodily to him, even at the age of threescore and eight, and had said in awful voice, 'Boy, take down your pants ... ' Well, well ... ~ William Makepeace Thackeray

Friendship is one friend betraying another friend to a third friend. With a fond friendly smile. The greater the betrayal, the greater the intimacy - the greater the friendship. ~ Craig Raine

The most common place I get stopped by fans is the ladies'. ~ Jessica Raine

So many people throughout my life have told me who I am, what I must do, what I can't do, what I have to complete, and what I will never be able to accomplish...and then I met the Goddess. ~ Amythyst Raine-Hatayama ~ Amythyst Raine

[ ... ]Let me ask around. In the meantime, you need to keep that trinket out of sight, and you need to be careful."
"I'm always careful."
Garadin gave me the look. You know the one.
"Whenever I can," I added. ~ Lisa Shearin

I don't understand this," I said softly. "I wanted to fuck you that first night on the raft, but that was just because I wanted to get off and you were there. I still want to fuck you, but the reasons are all different. I've never felt like this after sleeping with someone...or during it...shit. This didn't feel like I was fucking you...it was something else. I don't know what it is. I want to be with you, and touch you, and hold you. I have this overwhelming desire to protect you and make sure you're safe. Every time I look at you, it's like my chest gets crushed, and I just want to stare at you and hold on to you and tell you everything is going to be all right. I don't know what this is, Raine. I don't understand what you're doing to me."
I felt her fingers against my jaw and glanced down into her opened eyes. Fuck. She hadn't been asleep after all. Her mouth turned up into a beautiful smile, and her response ended me.
I love you too, Bastian. ~ Shay Savage

Strangers have crossed the sound, but not the sound of the dark oarsmen Or the golden-haired sons of kings, Strangers whose thought is not formed to the cadence of waves, Rhythm of the sickle, oar and milking pail ~ Kathleen Raine

The gatherd storme is rype; the bigge drops falle;The forswat meadowes smethe, and drenche the raine;The comyng ghastness do the cattle pall,And the full flockes are drivynge ore the plaine;Dashde from the cloudes the waters flott againe;The welkin opes; the yellow levynne flies;And the hot fierie smothe in the wide lowings dies. ~ Thomas Chatterton

Fucking Brynne hurt so good. It always had and I knew it always would. ~ Raine Miller

Then I drove over to get my snaked-haired, sharp-tongued, unpredictable, and very perplexing girlfriend, like the besotted sap that I very much was. ~ Raine Miller

The small things in life are sometimes the most precious gifts we are given, and when you recognize them when they arrive, then you are truly blessed. ~ Raine Miller

Because I see these mountains they are brought low, because I drink these waters they are bitter, because I tread these black rocks they are barren, because I have found these islands they are lost; Upon seal and seabird dreaming their innocent world my shadow has fallen. ~ Kathleen Raine

Decisions were permanent, and although we could regret some of them, we couldn't call them back. I had made some poor ones. Neil had too. I guess the best we could hope for, was to love each other as honestly as possible on each day we had left together. And hope for many, many long years of those days in the future. ~ Raine Miller

Being a poet is not a job or a profession but a way of life. ~ Kathleen Raine

It always amazed me at how easy it was to carry her. I knew why. It was because she carried my heart with her wherever she went. ~ Raine Miller

Begin with the soft smelted upturned heart-shaped mouth made for smiling a smile kept for kindness, tenderness, incapable of malice.
Am I going too fast for you?
The almond eyes see out through their sleepy epicanthic fold. Trusting and calm, if a flicker from slowness, a further flicker from stupidity.
Settled in slow-motion beauty, heart-breaking beauty. ~ Craig Raine

He was making music - Howells, Finzi, Holst - so you could see the sounds in the serried air.
Serried. Then just as suddenly empty when his sound-proof right hand closed off the notes. ~ Craig Raine

May your Higher Self
Always teach you with Grace
And may you
Always learn in Peace ~ Raine

F1s can only prescribe on in-patient drug cards and TTOs . The GMC's Good Medical Practice ( 2013 ) guidance states you should avoid providing medical care to yourself or anyone with whom you have a close personal relationship . ~ Oxford Handbook

I don't want you to go yet. I like having you here with me. You soothe me, baby." He rested his head on top of mine. "You are my ray of light in a fog of ignorance and frustration. ~ Raine Miller

My first acting experience was a non-speaking role as a robot. My costume was a cardboard box covered in tinfoil, but I was so shy I refused to go on stage. ~ Jessica Raine

Is great beauty in the simplicity of giving oneself to another in trust, and allowing them to hold you up. ~ Raine Miller

He had invaded every part of my life. Even if I wanted to forget all about him, he was obviously not going to allow it. ~ Lilly Wilde

When it came to maintaining a reputation, facts were fleeting but you could ride a rumor for years. ~ Lisa Shearin

My principal at RADA once told me, 'You'll know you're a professional when you don't feel like doing it but you have to do it.' ~ Jessica Raine

The caveman in me was pretty proud of myself as I did the metaphorical Tarzan beat-on-the-ole-chest routine. Good thing I was smart enough to keep my trap shut about it. ~ Raine Miller

I love you, mother of our blueberry-sized baby. ~ Raine Miller

I would like to explore comedy, I want to do more theatre, and I definitely want a future in film. ~ Jessica Raine

Open up and show me. I want to see what's mine, baby. ~ Raine Miller

You're not meant to be alone. You're meant to be with me. ~ Raine Miller

Normally, I'm the one fawning over the man, but in 'Call The Midwife,' I'm the experienced woman. ~ Jessica Raine

I don't know. I think I did my best."

Raine looked at me for a moment. "Well... that's good? That's all you can do. ~ Alice Oseman

Feed him ye must, whose food fills you.
And that this pleasure is like raine,
Not sent ye for to drowne your paine,
But for to make it spring againe. ~ Robert Herrick

I'm Raine Benares, seeker and ... " I looked up at Vegard.
"What else are people calling me now?"
The big Guardian chuckled and shook his head. "A lot of things, ma'am. Some you've heard, most you haven't, but I'm sure you could guess. ~ Lisa Shearin

Don't say that word!" Raine cringed.
"What, c**t?" I laughed. "Why not?"
"It's foul."
"So am I," I reminded her. ~ Shay Savage

I grew up just outside Hay-on-Wye, on the borders of Wales, on a farm. It was an amazing childhood, but I got a bit stir crazy when I hit my teens. There was the feeling of having to get out, you know, but it was definitely idyllic. ~ Jessica Raine

You know that book 'Quiet: the Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking', by Susan Cain? That's like my manifesto. The older I get, the more I think I could be a hermit. ~ Jessica Raine

I want to be with you so badly right now. i want to take you home with me, and put you in my bed and have hours and hours with your body wrapped up in mine and to do with as I wish. I want to have you in the morning so when we wake up I can make you come, saying my name ... I want to watch some crap TV show and have you fall asleep against me on the couch so I can watch you and hear you breathing ~ Raine Miller

When I look back over my career, there was so much stress. And it was because of the business. It was always because of the business. ~ Raine Maida

Lovers do things together! They rent videos, they ride Ferris wheels, they go out for pizza, they play Scrabble. They ... they talk!'
'Talk?' He lifted his head and frowned, his eyes puzzled. 'We talk all the time, Raine. I've never had such talkative sex.'
'That's just it!' She wiggled, flailed, but couldn't budge him. 'Two minutes alone with you, and I'm flat on my back. Every single time!'
A slow, knowing grin spread over his face. 'Is this your way of telling me you want to be on top? ~ Shannon McKenna

If you never love anyone, then you'll never be hurt when they don't love you back or when they leave you. ~ Raine Miller

When fighting devils, be careful not to become one ~ Raine Anthony

You can't break into and rob Magus Silvanus's town house."
"I never said I was."
"You didn't have to say it; I know what you're thinking."
I half smiled. "And because I'm a Benares, you assumed that I'd opt for the larcenous approach."
"No, ma'am." He grinned. "Because you're you."
I crossed my arms over my chest. "How long have you known me, Vegard?"
"A little over two weeks. ~ Lisa Shearin

I was lost in her and it felt so goddamn wonderful, I never wanted to be found again. Lost for forever in this moment with her. I could die a happy death right now and I would definitely be smiling. ~ Raine Miller

The work of the artist is to heal the soul. ~ Kathleen Raine

For a morning raine leave not your journey.
[For a morning rain leave not your journey.] ~ George Herbert

O never harm the dreaming world, the world of green, the world of leaves, but let its million palms unfold the adoration of the trees It is a love in darkness wrought obedient to the unseen sun, longer than memory, a thought deeper than the graves of time. The turning spindles of the cells weave a slow forest over space, the dance of love, creation, out of time moves not a leaf, and out of summer, not a shade. ~ Kathleen Raine

The icon is transparent as a representation of the special reality it depicts; an idol replaces and obscures that reality ... but the difference between icon and idol is purely subjective. ~ Kathleen Raine

The eye sees a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination awake. - Leonardo da Vinci ~ Raine Miller

Can we take it slow, Ethan Blackstone?"
"I'm taking that as a yes. And of course we can." I heard the soft brush of an exhale again. A pause as if he was gathering
his courage. "Brynne?"
"Yes?"
"I am smiling so wide right now."
"I am too, Ethan. ~ Raine Miller

Thank you, Brooke, for accepting my invitation to stay here tonight," I whispered against her lips … "And for giving me the chance to deserve you whenever you're ready. ~ Raine Miller

Shoes are a good starting point. I've become quite fussy about them! A patent pair of Sonia Rykiel oxfords have become invaluable. ~ Jessica Raine

The poem reminds us of what we ourselves know, but did not know we knew; reminds us, above all, of what we are. ~ Kathleen Raine

Now it's my turn to ask you if you're real."
His eyes roamed over me as he nodded again. "I think I became real when I met you. ~ Raine Miller

Wrap your legs around me, he said, tightening his grip on my ass. I did what he told me to do. ~ Raine Miller

The whole store can fucking hear you," I growled into her ear. "I bet they know my cock's in you just from the way you say my name…oh, fuck…Raine! ~ Shay Savage

Ethan naked in the bed was a sight I never tired of. He was male beauty personified. His arms, his chest, the washboard abs and V-cut hips, all of him - a delicious feast for my eyes. ~ Raine Miller

Coming on command. That's my girl, who does it when I tell her to. I'm such a lucky, lucky bastard. ~ Raine Miller

Sensing us, the trees tremble in their sleep, The living leaves recoil before our fires, Baring to us war-charred and broken branches, And seeing theirs, we for our own destruction weep. ~ Kathleen Raine

Because you're very special, Brynne."
"How special, Ethan?" I whispered because I was a little frightened to hear. I was frightened of my own feelings for him already. In such a short time he'd possessed me.
"For me? As special as it gets, baby." He smiled his signature one side up twist and made my stomach flutter. ~ Raine Miller

A fat stomach sticks out too far. It prevents you from looking down and seeing what is going on around you. ~ Norman Reilly Raine

He lifted his lips away and looked over me with glassy blue eyes. I love you so much it scares me sometimes. No ... it scares me most of the time. ~ Raine Miller

I certainly love getting to know the babies if I'm going to be working with them. ~ Jessica Raine

WINTER As the winter winds litter London with lonely hearts Oh the warmth in your eyes swept me into your arms Was it love or fear of the cold that led us through the night? For every kiss your beauty trumped my doubt Mumford & Sons ~Winter Winds ~ Raine Miller

Why am I doing this, Brynne?" he demanded.
"I don't know, Ethan." I could barely speak."
"Yes you do. Say it, Brynne!" I tensed as an orgasm started to rule me but he immediately reduced the pace, taking it down a notch with slow pulls in and out of my spread sex.
"Say what?" I cried, frustrated.
"Say the words I have to hear. Say the truth and I'll let you come." He speared into me slower and nipped at my bare shoulder with his teeth.
"What is the truth?" I was starting to sob now, completely at his mercy.
"The truth is," he grunted the rest on three, hard, punctuating thrusts, "You. Are. Mine!"
I inhaled on a cry at the final thrust.
He sped up again, fucking faster. "Say it!" he growled.
"I'm yours, Ethan! ~ Raine Miller

Many people want to live in an alternate world. As a writer, it's my job to put them there. ~ Devlin De La Chapa On Writing The HUSH Series

This is as good a place as any for you to locate the bastard," Tam said.
"Bastard? I thought you said you never met Rache."
"I haven't. He hurt you, he's hunting Chigaru, therefore he's a bastard. The goblin language has much more accurate terms, but that one will do for now."
"Do you mean jak'aprit?" Vegard asked helpfully.
Tam inhaled with intense satisfaction. "The very word. Well done, Vegard."
The big Guardian grinned. "I believe in knowing how to insult a man in every language. ~ Lisa Shearin

The first time I had to hold a baby, I was really nervous, but I soon grew in confidence. ~ Jessica Raine

I have no intentions of letting you go." I swallowed hard. "If you come with me you're signing on for all of me, Brynne. I don't know any other way to be with you. It's all in for me. And I want it to be all in for you too. ~ Raine Miller

When you find whatever it is that makes you happy … hold on to it with everything you've got. Your heart will let you know. ~ Raine Miller

Intent on one great love, perfect, Requited and for ever, I missed love's everywhere Small presence, thousand-guised. ~ Kathleen Raine

I didn't have long to wait before she joined me naked and mind-bendingly sexy as usual; rendering me utterly captive and raging to claim her body with the dominating sex I couldn't seem to control when we were together. My ultimate reward and my greatest fear all rolled into one. ~ Raine Miller

Without anything being said, there were no women at our lunches. Not that we were talking pussy. Or not much. But it was a chaps thing. Seasoned observers all, we set the world, such as it was, to rights, offsetting our intellectual know-how with truly wondrous flights of fancy. It was at the time of the ruinous yet avoidable civil war in Angola, in which far too many people died, or, in our immortal parlance, became 'deadified.' It might have been anyone - actually, I [Christopher Hitchens] am sure it was our poet friend Craig Raine - who came up with the appalling yet unforgettable idea that there is a design flaw in the female form, and that the breasts and the buttocks really ought to be on the same side. For myself, I have oft been perplexed as to why our heads are where, in a truly just world, our penises really ought to be, and my arse is not located between my chin and my nose, allowing me mellifluously to talk out of it. ~ Craig Brown

Brynne was my heaven. I'd seek out my heaven endlessly. ~ Raine Miller

Chemistry dissolves the goddess in the alembic,
Venus, the white queen, the universal matrix,
Down to the molecular hexagons and carbon-chains. ~ Kathleen Raine

Only a bastard would want to take her to bed and get her naked right now. Ergo, I was such a dirty bastard.
Ethan ~ Raine Miller

I love you, Ethan Blackstone. ~ Raine Miller

I've been thinking recently about all the qualities you need in order to be an actor. First and foremost, you've got to have a thick skin and give out an 'I don't give a monkey's what you think' kind of vibe, while at the same time really caring what everyone thinks. You've got to be tough and sensitive at the same time. ~ Jessica Raine

I've not stopped going on public transport. I love going on it. ~ Jessica Raine