Site uses cookies to provide basic functionality.

OK
Link Quote Stars Tags Author
f2d82ef And so, in silence, we walked the surface of a dying world, but in the breast of one of us at least had been born that which is ever oldest, yet ever new. I loved Dejah Thoris. The touch of my arm upon her naked shoulder had spoken to me in words I would not mistake, and I knew that I had loved her since the first moment my eyes had met hers that first time in the plaza of the dead city of Korad. love-quotes romantic romance love romantic-quotes dejah-thoris john-carter edgar-rice-burroughs falling-in-love in-love Edgar Rice Burroughs
9508ba4 There was one slight, desperate chance, and that I decided I must take--it was for Dejah Thoris, and no man has lived who would not risk a thousand deaths for such as she. romantic romance sacrifice love barsoom dejah-thoris john-carter Edgar Rice Burroughs
e96f218 Twenty years have intervened; for ten of them I lived and fought for Dejah Thoris and her people, and for ten I have lived upon her memory. romantic romance love dejah-thoris john-carter passionate-love passionate sad Edgar Rice Burroughs
d24600f Day had now given away to night and as we wandered along the great avenue lighted by the two moons of Barsoom, and with Earth looking down upon us out of her luminous green eye, it seemed that we were alone in the universe, and I, at least, was content that it should be so. universe earth dejah-thoris john-carter night Edgar Rice Burroughs