Well, he abruptly broke the protracted silence. Where can I kiss you? What? He lifted his fingers to my face, tucked a few loose strands of hair behind my ears. Where can I kiss you goodbye? My stomac...
Very clever of him to give me something my heart didn’t know it wanted in exchange for a promise.
Old things have soul. Then to me she’d add on a whisper, ‘And young things have spirit.
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...
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 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 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 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?
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—
All girls should be treated with respect regardless of whether or not they’re virgins. Being a virgin doesn’t make me any more or less worthwhile than a non-virgin.
You don't know love?No.But you're so certain that this is it, that what we have—what we're doing—that this is us in love?Yes.Why?Because it's what love should be.
This is the tattoo of life decisions. Tattoo of life decisions? Yes. Tattoo. Marriage is the forever and permanent branding of one person to another. Sure, you can get it removed - but it's expensive,...
Nothing screams lady-mind-porn like a hot, shirtless, sexy man doing dishes after giving her a reason to be exhausted.
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 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 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,...
How many are we talking about? What percentage of females in Chicago are ready to have sex with you right now? What happens if one of them needs to travel? Do they have a phone tree? Is there a covera...
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...
Come self-sufficient. Come powerful. Or come weak and uncertain. Just come to me. And stay. Trust that you are precisely the right piece, because you are the missing piece—in my life and of my heart.
Because I look at you, and I think, you and me, we’re going to get married one day. And then, if you’re a very good wife… His eyes skated over my face as he paused, and it felt like a loving caress; b...