The past is a part of you and us. You can store it away someplace different, but you can't make it go away. And you can't even resolve it until you, we, face it.
Your staying or leaving doesn’t impact the premise of your demand, which seems to be that I have no control over myself. That’s wrong. I decide who destroys me, not you, Mark Compton.
You don’t drag someone you love into that kind of hell, and play the kinds of games he did with her mind and body. You climb out of hell to be with them.
The two men’s gazes lock and I am suddenly swimming in a pool of testosterone, in need of a life raft.
You can embrace who you really are, and we can be whoever we want to be together. My gut clenches at the reference to the way my
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They don’t get to tell you who I am. His voice is a rough growl, low and tight. I do. I tell you and I show you, so you get the truth—not their fabrication of it. A muscle in his jaw flexes. Understan...
The minute he’d said ‘yes’ to this assignment, Royce had said ‘no’ to Lauren.
This is one of my favorite books Lisa has ever written. You couldn't ask for a better story.
This is who I am, Sara. I will protect you from everything and everyone else, but I can’t protect you from who I am or who we will be if you stay with me.
This is who I am, Sara. I will protect you from everything and everyone else, but I can’t protect you from who I am or who we will be if you stay with me. I know who you are, I whisper, and I am more...
True confidence means you’re prepared to work hard enough and smart enough to make your own thunder. You don’t need someone else’s.
We are two messed-up people destined to destroy each other, but I can't walk away. No. Can't isn't the issue. I simply don't want to.
We attack the problems. They don't attack us.
We have too many of the wrong things in common to be more than sex, and the realization is freedom to me.
We just hold each other. Where I was once lost, he’s found me. But I know now that I have only begun to truly discover Chris. He’s still lost.
We lie there in our bed, legs twined together and it’s a perfect moment, so perfect that I dare to believe the past cannot rip this from us. Our demons are finally not as strong as we are. Yet somehow...
We think that if we surround ourselves with people, we can’t be alone, when the reality is that we’re always alone.
You do understand, Sara. More than you know. More than I wish you did. His mouth closes down over mine, hot with demand, and I know he believes this conversation is over, that he means to end it with...
What do I have to do to convince you I’m the one you should run , not away from? Tell me and I’ll do it.
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