The term honeymoon was coined to refer to the sweetness of a new marriage. But according to Norse legend, a man abducted his bride from a neighboring village. He was then required to take her into hid...
Then you agree that you should keep me. With the smug satisfaction of an argument won, he propped his shoulder against the stall door. Her eyes picked him over as if he were a carved goose on a table....
There were few forces greater than the power of a fourteen-year-old’s determination when she wanted something. A teenager would stop at nothing in order to get her way.
They’d take Nina’s hair tonight, leaving only enough to cover her scalp—the k.d. lang look, Jezebel explained. Paige would weave the hair, strand by strand, into a wig modeled after Nina’s natural loo...
This was the House that Jack Built, she thought, hearing the singsong rhythm of the old children’s story in her head. And this was the wife who lived in the house that Jack built. And there was the mi...
What I mistook for love was simply a powerful form of wishful thinking,
When times get hard and you start wondering why you got married in the first place, remember the love.
Why did joy bring the same tears as sadness? Why did the throat and chest ache with fire, regardless? Was it because, deep down, everyone knew it was fragile and ephemeral? Did the tears come from the...
Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation! —Jane Austen (1798)
Wishful thinking is a powerful force.
You can't rewind life or undo things.
You cannot make a man love me any more than you can keep a flower from turning its face to the sun. Nature has endowed us with certain urges. That’s why we speak of the magic of love.
You mustn’t touch me. Very slowly, he lowered his hand. You need to be touched, Caitlin MacBride. You need it very badly. She girded herself with denial. Even if it were so, I would not need it from a...
You’re good at so many things, Camille said. I’m a fat loser, Julie stated. And don’t say I’m not fat because I am. Camille felt ill. She’d been blind to what Julie wanted. Was she a terrible mother f...
A broken heart doesn’t care how the love got lost.
Equaled her brilliant sister in the classroom. She used to pretend it didn’t matter during the years she and Abigail attended Miss Madinsky’s school together. Alongside the pampered daughters of judge...
Great guy. Wait till you get to know him. I didn’t wait, Sophie thought. I fell right into bed with him. It would never work. I still don’t want kids, Daphne said. I never will. I’m the oldest of five...
Heart—life had grace notes. These were moments so sweet that they could be tucked like the smallest of keepsakes, never to be forgotten. She
Her home; it just happened to be where she lived. This was the House that Jack Built, she thought, hearing the singsong rhythm of the old children’s story in her head. And this was the wife who lived...
Her questions shooting at him like a barrage of machine-gun fire. He thought he did okay, because he was prepared. He had spent weeks reading and researching and studying, all the while waiting for th...
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