It was right then and there that she'd realized there was no quota on misery for people, no quantifiable threshold that once reached, got you miraculously taken out of the distress pool.
It was always better to follow a bumpy course of one's own than a smooth but intractable trail set by another.The former was harder, yet far more vital. The latter was like a living death...except you...
In their world, dominion was established through force and manipulation by individuals of the male persuasion. Position was earned or lost by contests of will that were often bloody and resulted in a...
In that moment, Xcor thought of each of his fighters. Zypher, the sexual conqueror. Balthazar, the thief. Syphon, the assassin. And the other one who had no name, and too many sins to count. So he was...
In order to move forward, you had to let the past go—and sometimes that meant mental shifts that happened on the inside…whereas with others, it was about things in the physical world.
In A.J.’s experience, she wasn’t really the kind of woman men would break down a door to get to. Well, maybe if a house was on fire and they were a Good Samaritan with ax and an air mask.
If you were loved, if you had people who cared about you, you could be by yourself and never feel alone. But if no one cared? You were isolated even in a crowd.
If you want to get back to being productive, you’re going to have to look under all those rocks, feel your feelings, and come out on the other side of that journey.
If you looked for validation from other people, by definition they could take that away if they chose. The safest path, as always, was to be your own rock, your own harbor, your own shelter. Am I okay...
If any harm shall befall him, I will come after you, and find you where you sleep. I do not care where you lay your head or who with, my vengeance shall rain upon you until you drown.
If I asked you to come here again, he said, and let me be with you, would you? There was no hesitation. Yes. Even if things couldn’t be…normal…between us? Sexually speaking. Yes. He frowned. This is g...
I'll cab it home. Naw. I'll hang until you're through. Then I'll drag you back to your apartment. Watch you throw up for an hour. Push you into bed. Before I leave I'll get the coffee machine set up....
I'll be here waiting for you and for whoever else you love. That's what the other side is. It's just love
I wish I were whole. I wish I could have given you youngs, if you'd wanted them and I could conceive them. I wish I could have told you it killed me when you thought I had been with anyone else. I wis...
I thought symphaths didn't have a conscience. I'm half my mother's boy, too. So I have a little. Aren't you lucky. The Reverend's chin dipped down, and his eyes flashed pure, purple evil for a split s...
I sometimes wonder . . . She shrugged. I mean, what if everyone’s lied about death? What if there is no Fade, but instead you’re just stuck in your body forever, conscious but unable to move? Great. S...
I never could have done that last one without you. Her voice was both shy and lovely. You know ... my birth sire? He never did anything like that for me. He never ... he didn't even want me to go to t...
I love you, Lassiter, she said without looking away from her daughter. I know. Mary glanced back at him. Did you just quote Harrison Ford to me. Yes, Leia. And it’s also true. Go on, Mother, she’s saf...
I look at that woman and all my neurons start firing at once, Devlin said. My head shuts down and that’s not the worst of it.But he wasn’t about to describe the effect she had on his body. Even if the...
I got to go! Bye! You’re ammmmmmmmmmmaaaaaaaazing— Click. This time when she put her cell phone back down, she felt as light and frothy as the bubbles in a champagne flute. And a little drunk, too.