He gripped my arms and kissed me for all he was worth, and believe me, that was plenty.
He loved his mother. He just had a hard time remembering that some days.
His eyes looked at my body as if it were a drink of water on a desert dune.I don't know much, I confessed, my voice barely audible.Don't worry. I know a lot.
His eyes looked at my body as if it were a drink of water on a desert dune.
His eyes were still like caves with ghosts dwelling in their depths.
I am here, Eric said.And I am here. I was a little amused at Eric's phone answering technique. Sookie, my little bullet-sucker, he said, sounding fond and warm. Eric, my big bullshitter.
I could just envision Sam imagining that I wanted him to go out to the lake with me, only to be confronted by Jannalynn and whatever she thought of as a romantic dinner -- live rabbits they could chas...
I enjoyed my arms around him, the sense of him next to me. And if you were to ask me, I would confess that I thought Sam and I would be together, maybe by Christmas, maybe for always. I couldn’t imagi...
I found it harder and harder to stick to what was right, when what was expedient made better sense.
I got up the next day at noon, feeling as relaxed as a cat in a pool of sunshine,
I have no idea. You know what’s really scary? What? No one will tell you. Like who? Anyone. It’s the damnedest thing. I really want to know what I’m up against. So I ask my best friend, she’s had two....
I love him, I said, but even to my own ears I didn't sound happy about it.
I never set out to be a one-night-stand kinda woman. I want to be sure, if I have sex with you, that it's because you want to be around for a while and because you like me for who I am, not what I am....
I settled opposite him in my favorite chair, low enough that my feet can touch the floor, wide enough to curl up inside, with a little table beside it just big enough to hold a book and a coffee cup.
I started to say that couldn’t happen, that the people I knew wouldn’t turn on their friends and neighbors because of an accident of birth. But in the end, I didn’t say that, because I wondered if it...
I trudged back to my bedroom and pushed the door open, intending to wash my face or brush my teeth or make some stab at smoothing my hair, because I thought it might make me feel a little less trample...
I want to be first. I know that’s selfish, and maybe unattainable, and maybe shallow. But I just want to come first with someone. If that’s wrong of me, so be it. I’ll be wrong. But that’s the way I f...
I was so sleepy (and sore) that another bout of sex was out of the question, unless Eric had suddenly developed an interest in necrophilia.
In books, the hero was gone after the big blowup. He didn’t stick around in the vicinity doing mysterious shit, sending messages to the heroine by a third party. He hauled his ass into oblivion. And t...
I’d always enjoyed life, and I knew I would again. But I was going to have to slog through a lot of bad patches to get there
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