“My mother said, "kiss him, darling, it's easy so natural" and I thought to myself, not with lips of stone, dear mother, not with lips of stone”
“Red lips are not so red as the stained stones kissed by the English dead.”
“As my mother once said: The boys throw stones at the frogs in jest.But the frogs die in earnest.”
“what red lips you have," he said in her ear. Did she dare say it? "All the better to kiss you with, my dear," she replied. And then their lips met.”
“The earth has a mouth?” Buckley asked.A big round mouth but with no lips,” my father said.Jack,” my mother said, laughing, “stop it. Do you know I caught him outside growling at the snapdragons?”
“It wasn't like that, darlin'." [Darcy] said quickly. "I swear on my mother's soul it wasn't!"Bronte bit her lip, trying not to smile. "Your mother is still living, is she not?"Darcy grinned sheepishly. "Yes, but…just the same.”