Payback was always hell, wasn't it?
It takes strength to participate in life.
Pure hell was living in her eyes.
No! he roared. I’ve had enough for today! A little of you goes a long way, lady!Please, call me Dione, she murmured.I don’t want to call you anything! My God, would you just leave me alone!Of course I...
No matter how much damage he had done, he hadn't won.
Lady, what you do to me is almost criminal, he groaned in a shaky voice.An odd tightening in her breasts made her close her eyes. I’ve got to go, she said weakly, but for the life of her she couldn’t...
Jay stepped into the room, and for a split second both her heart and lungs seemed to stop functioning. Then her heart lurched into rhythm again, and she drew a deep, painful breath. Tears sprang to he...
I read somewhere that flying is like throwing your soul into the heavens and racing to catch it as it falls.I don't think mine would ever fall, he murmured, looking at the clear cold sky.
He was silent a moment; then he said, I want a drink of water. She almost laughed aloud, because it was such a mundane request that could have been made of anyone, but then she saw the tension in his...
He needed a woman. Bad.
God, I love you, he said, and laid his head on her belly, his arms locked around her hips.Madelyn slid her fingers into his hair. It took you long enough, she said gently.What I lack in quickness, I m...
As the morning wore on, she was grateful
A stab in the dark sometimes brought blood.
The massive doors found in hospital rooms. It seemed
Not so wide that a woman would feel as if she might fall in, and not so small it looked as if he'd just sucked a lemon like Ronald Trump's, or whatever his name was. All in all, Richard's lips looked...
He stood looking down at her for a moment, then walked to the window and raised it. Let's let the storm in, he said, and then it was with them, filling the half-dark room with sound and vibration. The...
When we’re married and he looks at me sitting beside him at the table, he should feel as if he’s fought a great battle and accomplished something—namely, winning me. He’ll treasure me more. I like bei...
This life wasn't all there was; there was more, much more, and when people spoke of death as passing they were exactly right, because the spirit passed on to that other level of existence. Knowing tha...
Think of it as therapy, he encouraged. A sort of repayment for your own therapeutic knowledge. You gave me a reason to live, and I'll show you how to live.
That was the thing about cats; even the scruffiest one was convinced of its innate superiority.