“You take my heart with you, my loving captor."
"Nay, Madelyne. I am your captive in body and soul.”
Julie Garwood (1946) American writer
Source: Honor's Splendour
“You take my heart with you, my loving captor."
"Nay, Madelyne. I am your captive in body and soul.”
Julie Garwood (1946) American writer
Source: Honor's Splendour
“And earth who herself bestowed the body takes it back and wastes not a whit.”
Terram corpus quae dederit, ipsam
capere neque dispendi facere hilum.
Ennius (-239–-169 BC) Roman writer
As quoted by Varro in De Lingua Latina, Book V
“If I could put my brain in her body, the world would be mine for the taking.”
Susan Elizabeth Phillips (1948) American writer
Source: Match Me If You Can
Marion Woodman (1928–2018) Canadian writer
Source: Bone: Dying into Life (2000), p. 241
“take a look at my body
look at my hands
there's so much here
that I don't understand”
Natalie Merchant (1963) American singer-songwriter
Song lyrics, Ophelia (1998), My Skin
“Take back the night? How can women take back the night when they've never had it?”
Ellen Willis (1941–2006) writer, activist
From a conversation with Alice Echols, quoted by Echols in "Ellen Willis, 1941-2006" http://www.thenation.com/doc/20061127/ellen_willis, The Nation (10 November 2006)
Roberto Clemente (1934–1972) Puerto Rican baseball player
On being informed that Mazeroski had claimed he wouldn't be retiring if he had Clemente's body; as quoted in "Sidelights on Sports: Monday Morning's Sports Wash" by Al Abrams, in The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Monday, October 2, 1972), p. 24
Baseball-related, <big><big>1970s</big></big>, <big>1972</big>