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Steve comes home tonight from his meetings. Back to having to think of making dinners again. :)

Last night I almost got sucked into watching Terminator on TV, the first one from 1984, which is a great movie. "Come with me if you want to live." (love that line, sigh)  But I resisted! And I was able to read for a bit before the eyelids closed though it was a struggle. Success!

There is a one minute long clip of an upcoming (in April) Outlander scene from the Starz series, to tease us.  Wow, it is hot hot hot.

You are my home now.  I want you, Claire.  I want you so much I can scarce breathe. Will you have me?

You'll have to imagine the visuals because I can't seem to embed the clip right now. Just in time for Valentine's Day. It got me to thinking of romantic lines from books. Here's some good ones:

From PERSUASION by Jane Austen (my favorite book of hers):

“You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight years and a half ago. Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you."

(swoon)

From OUR MUTUAL FRIEND by Charles Dickens:

"You know what I am going to say. I love you. What other men may mean when they use that expression, I cannot tell; what I mean is, that I am under the influence of some tremendous attraction which I have resisted in vain, and which overmasters me. You could draw me to fire, you could draw me to water, you could draw me to the gallows, you could draw me to any death, you could draw me to anything I have most avoided, you could draw me to any exposure and disgrace. This and the confusion of my thoughts, so that I am fit for nothing, is what I mean by your being the ruin of me. But if you would return a favourable answer to my offer of myself in marriage, you could draw me to any good - every good - with equal force."

from CAPTAIN CORELLI'S MANDOLIN by Louis de Bernieres

"When you fall in love, it is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake, and then it subsides. And when it subsides, you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots are to become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the desire to mate every second of the day. It is not lying awake at night imagining that he is kissing every part of your body. No ... don't blush. I am telling you some truths. For that is just being in love; which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over, when being in love has burned away. Doesn't sound very exciting, does it? But it is!"

I've not read the last two books there but maybe I need to do a perusal. Just lovely.

Warmer today, supposed to get in the 50s. A couple days ago I started to rewatch some of the early episodes of Broadchurch on Netflix in anticipation of the second season on BBC America in three weeks. I must also get back to watching Dr. Who season 2 - the first with David Tennant as the Doctor.

Much love,
PK the Bookeemonster