If you can't be a good example, settle for being a horrible warning
I've been spending a lot of time out of here, Harry said. Thank God I don't have a date tonight. This would not be in easy smell to explain.
I was raised to be charming, not sincere.
I suppose you had to, Wes said when Phin went back to join him at the table.Pretty much. She seduced me.Yeah, right, Wes said. She said, 'Please fix the kitchen drain,' and you interpreted that--She s...
I adored you, North said. I just didn’t tell you. You were the most amazing thing that had ever happened to me. Nothing else like you in my world before or since. I was crazy about you. I still am. Te...
He turned down the street to Emilio's, trying to remember what the edge of chaos meant. It was something about flipping a coin, something about the edge being the moment when the coin was in the air....
A lot of really big trees had died to make that desk. His mother had probably gnawed them down, used her nails to saw the boards, and finished the decorative cutwork with her tongue.
Didn’t matter.
[...] And those women with the camera looked loose., Phin thought. At last, some news.
There never were any women who liked to cook for men everyday. There were only women who cooked for survival and pretended to like it. And now there are men who cook for survival. Like you. Think of t...
So I know you must have a plan and this wolf—Beast, Min said.—frog, whatever, can't fit your plan.He's not a frog, Min said. I kissed him and he did not turn into a prince.He turned into a god. No,he...
She slid out from under his arm, and picked up his shirt from the floor. When she put it on, it failed to meet in the middle over her chest. that always worked in the movies, she thought, disgusted, a...
Say, ‘Thank you, Phin.’ Oh, please.Say, Thank youvery much, Phin. I don’t think so.Say, ‘You are a great lover, Phin.’ I’m out of here.
Right this way, Emilio said, wincing. He showed them to the best table by the window, slid Min into a bentwood chair, and then stopped by Cal long enough to say under his breath, I sent the servers ho...
Nobody in my life has ever known me the way you do. Nobody in my life has ever made me feel as good as you do. You know me, you know everything about me, and when you leave me, you're going to be leav...
My studies have shown that the process of falling into mature love happens in four steps. When you meet a woman, you subconsciously look for cues that she's the kind os person you should be with. That...
Leave it to the army to mechanize an erection. Laugh now, funny girl, Shane said. That’s gonna be a bridge in about a minute. And that bridge can hold over sixty tons, Carpenter said. So it’s a strong...
Jane Austen was born before those bonds which (we are told) protected women from the truth were burst by the Brontës or elaborately untied by George Eliot.… Jane Austen may have been protected from tr...
Jake ignored him and went on. If I ever do hook up with anybody again - and I sincerely doubt that I will, so wipe that hopeful look off your face - it will be with someone who thinks that being with...
If you can't be a good example, then be a terrible warning.