The dreams were the troubling kind where I thought the action and events were genuine while asleep; upon waking and in retrospect I realized they were obviously completely implausible.The one I rememb...
She told me I should be proud of my healthy shape and healthy body and love it and treasure it because it was mine. No one, she said, could tell me what to think of my body. If I let another person’s...
Over the years I’d learned absence doesn’t make the heart grow fonder. The heart becomes wary, somnolent and cynical during periods of prolonged absence, burdened with cares and fears borne in solitud...
My momma once told me, you don’t need to be pushed in order to fall. I don’t think you’ll need to do much pushing, Jessica.
Men should come with manuals, subtitles, and reset buttons.
Life is a struggle for relevancy.
Janie makes me a better person.She gave mea small smile before she turned to the front of the chapel. You make yourself a better person. Janie is just a reminder of why it's worth it.
It’s seductive, to live in a virtual space, especially when the real world isn’t what you want it to be.
I'm not letting you leave this caruntil we make it to second base. At least.Jess, you know how good I am at baseball, right?
I like you because you are Kaitlyn—genuine, beautiful, brilliant, amazing Kaitlyn—not because you’re Kaitlyn Parker. And I’m in love with you because I can’t help myself.
I know what you’re going to say.Then we can skip it and you can admit you’re wrong.I can’t admit I’m wrong about two things in the same day. I brought my attention back to him, found him smirking at m...
I changed my mind.You changed—My. Mind. I stopped short and faced him, placing my hands on my hips. It’s like underpants, Jethro.Dirty and dark? He smirked.No. I scowled at his facial expression. A mi...
However, the more stressful my situation is, the less I think about it, or anything related to it. At present , I thought about how the elevators were like mechanical horses, and I wondered if anyone...
He didn’t save us ; haven’t you been listening? Elizabeth held an icepack to her chin where she’d been hit by an meaty elbow . Fiona stabbed one of them with a Susan Bates needle, Marie was wielding a...
Greg’s eyes narrowed on me, but this mouth curved to one side. I don’t know . . . that feels like something Hitler would say.
Everyone knows that in real life, fictionally handsome men are vacuous vessels of Satan.
Because if it’s possible to have a partner who gives all of themselves without reservation, who looks forward to working and sacrificing for me just as I look forward to doing the same for her, who ca...
And, when it was time for Meg to give her statement, I punched her in the face.
Marriage is an ultimate sport in emotional multitasking. I’m never only mad at Greg. I’m mad and madly in love; angry and concerned for his wellbeing; he frustrates and delights me in the same second....
Where I'm from, Tom tilted his head to the side, they call your kind a hipster or a lumbersexual, with the beard and flannel and such.Without missing beat, Jethro responded, Ah. See, where I'm from, t...