I met Elvis in your woods one night, Terry said. One of the EMTs had given him a shot, and I thought it was beginning to work. I knew I was nuts then. He was telling me how much he liked cats. I told...
I put my little yellow ball earrings in and wore my hair pulled up and back with a yellow banana clip holding it loosely.
It was like being around a particularly irritating two-year-old.
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.
It was somehow degrading, craving someone so... voraciously - another good calendar word - just because he was physically beautiful. I hadn't thought that was something women did, either.
It wasn't often you ran into bondage/Elvis/whorehouse-themed vampire club
It's always possible for human beings to spoil their own peace of mind
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.
Lillian is one of those disagreeable people who yet have some redeeming qualities, so that you can’t write them off entirely—but you sure wish you could.
Maybe she was being so hoity-toity because she didn't have her own fairy godmother.
Men sometimes have to leave their ladies alone, and ladies are not responsible for the bad manners of fools.
No blame, no hate - why no communication?
No matter what happens in public—no matter what—don’t doubt that I love you and care about your welfare . . . as much as I am able.
No, of course I don’t mind paying the electric bill. Do Parnell and Leah have a key? No, Jane was firm about that. Parnell came to me and offered to go through and get Jane’s clothes and things packed...
Of course I am grateful, and I'm sure you are, as you put it, a special vintage, Bill said politely, But I have my own wine cellar.
Okay I've been stupid in the past. Not consistently stupid, but occasionally stupid. And I've made mistakes. You bet, I've made mistakes.
Should I just bite you, and end it all?, he whispered. I would never have to think about you again. Thinking about you is an annoying habit and one I want to be rid of.
Since he’d had no clue about Chris Stybr (sometimes he had a genuine impression about the seeker, but this Chris could be a man or a woman or a hermaphrodite for all Manfred knew),
Sometimes life just hands you more than you take. Then you just accept.
Sometimes you just have to roll in it.
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