Why was it librarians had such a prim image? With all the information available in books right there at their fingertips, librarians could be the best-informed people around. About anything.
When’s your next doctor’s appointment? In your last month, you go every week, Lynn said knowledgeably. I’m due to go back in tomorrow. Maybe he’ll tell me something.
Weirdly, strangely—wonderfully—he knew this was the moment he was touching the bottom, and he understood that from now on, however gradually, he would begin to heal.
We might be on the same page, but I wasn't happy about reading it.
Vampires often turn on those who trust them. We don’t have human values, you know. A lot of humans turn on those who trust them, I pointed out. I can be practical. I’m not a total fool.
Then was ashamed of myself. I should be happy for what I'd been given. I hoped God hadn't noticed my lapse in appreciation.
The idea that family would not harm you was a stupid assumption of the first order.
The air was cold and wet, and if you stood still for a moment the chilling damp would creep into your bones. I could tell the temperature was taking a deep dive, and the bright sky of the morning was...
That would do the trick, he said hoarsely. Jesus, Harper, I don't understand why we don't have guys following us from town to town just to watch you do that. Because I've never done it for anyone but...
Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. She had explained that that meant that you don’t worry about tomorrow, or about things you can’t change. I
So, on the whole, I'd have to say that no, people don't change, but they CAN learn to behave differently. I want to believe otherwise. If you have an argument that says I'm wrong, I'd be glad to hear...
Snap out of it, I said. I wasn't in the mood.With a huge effort, Eric reined himself in. When you smell like that, he said. I just want to fuck you and bite you and rub myself all over you.-Eric drunk...
People stubbornly lived their lives as they wanted, without regard to me, to an amazing degree.
No matter how we suffer, we have an obligation to others. We have to be unselfish enough to try to live in the right way, so others can get through their own lives without us fouling them up.
My bodyguard was mowing the lawn in a pink bikini when the body fell from the sky.
Men sometimes have to leave their ladies alone, and ladies are not responsible for the bad manners of fools.
I’d often thought being a Christian meant by definition being a bad one, since nothing is more difficult than Christianity, so I was more or less used to that feeling.
It's my partner, he said, smiling. It didn't look easy for him, that smile, but it transformed him from a thin-faced freckled man with a blade of a nose to a man with sexiness to spare.
It's always possible for human beings to spoil their own peace of mind
It was my own grief. I could feel it fading away into something I simply accepted, because that’s the way I am. I knew I’d feel better. It was living until then that was hard.