Mac, my dear friend, here is something you should probably know about women without being told. We don’t want to have to tell a man we need to be wanted. We’d really like that to come naturally. We’d...
No one should make you cry like this. Tell me who he is. I’ll kill him for you. I wasted so much time on him, she said with a hiccup of emotion. He kissed her eyes. He’s a dick, he said. Worse. He’s a...
Paul got down on one knee at the side of the bed and held her hand, looking into her eyes. You doing okay? he asked softly. I’m working very hard, she said, breathless. I know. God, Vanni—I wish there...
Paul kissed her forehead. You’re amazing, Vanessa. You, too, she whispered, and closed her eyes. He stayed on his knees beside her bed while Mel took the baby, and for the entire time she washed him,...
Oh, really. This saving-up business—I guess you think you’re the only one who missed it. Huh? Well… You got a little pissy there for a while…. Well, John, you told everyone it was ovulation day! You’r...
Paul lay awake for a long time, just listening to her breathe, drinking in her scent. Holding her like this, naked against him, it was like a miracle. You don’t just go to sleep on miracles. You savor...
Oh, my God, she said, looking at Jack’s face. It’s much worse than it looks, he told her. What in the world happened? I got too close to the rear end of a mule.
People belong wherever they feel good. It can be a lot of different places. For a lot of different reasons.
People tend to treat a miscarriage like a heavy period but it’s a death. You lost your baby. You have to take time to grieve.
Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies—Nelson Mandela. Enough,
She loved watching John—his movements so slow and steady, confident. And to talk with him in the evening after closing, even for a while, was like a reward. The sound of his voice as he read to her so...
Underage and everyone knew
Now look, he said. He felt the back collar of his shirt and jacket clutched in an iron grip and he whirled on the giant, hitting him square in the jaw with his fist. He suspected he’d broken his hand,...
Not much that happened on the beach got by Charlie Simmons. He was fourteen and his mother was the nurse who tended Winnie Banks, a lady with ALS who lived on the hill overlooking the beach. Charlie c...
Nobody ever won a race by standing at the starting line.
She reached her fingertips up to the hair at his temples. You’re showing a little gray here. Not much, but a little. I suppose I did that to you. Probably. But I’m very tough—I can take it. Oh,
She reached out a hand and touched the hair at his temple. You’re getting a little gray here. Big surprise. I really didn’t know you’d be such a handful. I’m the best thing that ever happened to you....
Terrified to touch that emergency money she had stowed away, she was stretching her money as far as it would go—rent for Penny took the top position because she was certain the elderly darling needed...
Thank you, for matching me for stubborn. I’m not all together about this, she said. This is really hard. When you get closer to home, you’ll start to feel good about being with all of them. They were...
Over time, she felt Bobby had had some recognition—there were times he’d turn his head, seem to look at her, even move his head closer as if nuzzling her, then close his eyes as though he knew she was...
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