Nico flinched and pain flickered within his green eyes. He struck the wall next to my head, causing me to jump. I don’t want to be fair! I’m not interested in being nice! You’re right. I’m playing gam...
Love was never enough, not without mutual respect and a great deal of drudgery and effort. And even then, it wasn't enough. Wanting each other, being open to change, pushing each other to improve and...
Listen to me for one fucking second, okay? I also whispered, but only because he was whispering, Only if you stop using the f-word like you get paid royalties every time you say it.I’ll fucking use wh...
If we were in Victorian England I would have called him dashing;but, since we lived in the 21st century I would have to settle for the wordier GQ model hot.
I'm not trying to hurt you. I just want us to be—Smart, he finished for me, his resentful gaze softening as it moved over my face. I know. You always want to be smart and do the right thing. But the...
I wondered what steps I could take to remove the word ‘moisture’ or even ‘moist’ from the English language; I really hated the way it sounded and always went out of my way to avoid saying it. I also r...
I will do anything to prove that to you. I will do anything to prove that what we have is worth a battle. What we have is worth a war.
I was determined to stay off the see-saw of crazy
I might cry later, at home, while watching Steel Magnolias and dressed like a homeless person. Sometimes I applied mascara before crying just to heighten the experience.
I hadn’t seen Jennifer in a week. Absence doesn’t make the heart grow fonder. Whoever said that was a damn fool. Absence makes the heart suicidal. Take my heart for example. It hadn’t stopped hurling...
I didn't care about embarrassing myself further. What was one more debit of mortification when my balance sheet was already in the red by hundreds of thousands?
I came home to find three rocks on my desk and a card with a penguin on the front. Seeing it was from Greg, I did a little happy dance as I bounced into my room, reading his inscription.Dearest Fiona,...
Holding a grudge is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.
He lifted a single eyebrow as he adjusted his pants, zipping his fly. The sound made my back stiffen and I realized how close we’d just been to copulating in the back of a car.I think you look good ju...
Give me a small intimate gathering of five people, a dinner party, where one-on-one conversations can be had, where people talk about current events, good books, good food, and weird news. That was my...
Crap.She’s going to cry.This was a situation that required neutralizing. I placed my hand over hers and gave her a squeeze.There, there. Fruit cake. Calm down—
Boys are stupid. I needed to explore becoming a lesbian.
Attending to injustice, no matter how small, is always a worthy cause.
Fist bump* *high five* *bottom pat* … too far?
You’re disgusting and that’s completely misogynistic. What if the hook-up girl is using you just as much as you’re using her? What if she’s just having fun? This is the problem with society. When a gu...