I love you Bonnie. So much that I hurt with it. And I hate it, and I love it, and I want it to go away, and i want it to stay forever....
I didn’t know if his art was helping. But Moses’s pictures were like that, glorious and terrible. Glorious because they brought memory to life, terrible for the same reason. Time softens memories, san...
Saying something is meant to be is a cop out. It’s a way for people to deal when they screw up or when life hands them a bowl of shit stew. The things that are meant to be are the things we can’t cont...
But it wasn’t. Sex is not the most intimate thing two lovers can do. Even when the sex is beautiful. Even when it’s perfect. Millie drew a deep breath as if she remembered how perfect it had truly bee...
Millie told me once that the ability to devastate is what makes a song beautiful. Maybe that’s what makes life beautiful too. The ability to devastate. Maybe that’s how we know we’ve lived. How we kno...
What softened your heart? I asked softly.Good music and a friend.I felt my eyes burn a little and turned from him, blinking quickly to lap up the sting of tears. Music has incredible powerSo does frie...
Caring about someone doesn't mean taking care of them.
What we believe affects our choices, our actions, and subsequently, our lives. The Greeks believed in thier gods, and this belief affected everything else. History is written according to what men bel...
You can't control who loves you...you can't let someone love you anymore than you can make someone love you
I don’t want to be without you, Bonnie! Don’t you get that? I am in love with you! I’ve known you for one week. And I’m in love with you! Crazy, drive-off-a-cliff-if-you-asked-me-to, in love with you....
Speaking of names and all-time favorite romances, Bailey told me you write under a pen name. I've been really curious about that.Fern groaned loudly. She shook her fist toward Bailey's house. Curse yo...
For the word is quick and powerfulSharper than any two-edged swordPiercing even to the dividing asunderOf soul and spiritOf joints and marrowIt is a discerner of the thoughtsAnd intents of the heart
Normal was so lost to me that I didn't even know where to look for it
I love the way you smile at me... knocks me on my arse.
You don't need wings to fly, she chirped.What do you need, Daughter? I asked softly.She looked up at me, her big, black eyes alight with knowledge, and she smiled.Words.
Those are my five greats for Georgia today. Those were my five greats yesterday and they will be tomorrow and the next day, until your kisses get old. Then I'll have to think of something else.
Shakespeare said, ‘the robbed that smiles steals something from the thief.
Every second I am a bird, I long to be a man. For you. For me. For the child I was so desperate to create. Not for Jeru. For us. You said I choose you because you are of use to me. And I did. But know...
I have all the power, but you will destroy me.
True beauty, the kind that doesn't fade or wash off, takes time. It takes pressure. It takes incredible endurance. It is the slow drip that makes the stalactite, the shaking of the Earth that creates...