No matter what grief or loss takes place, most of life flows on all around us, as though nothing's changed. At some point in our sorrow, we each make a choice to sink or swim. There's no alternative.
Thus began the weeks of what we termed being reckless - and I worry from that viewpoint, at least, that word defines our entire relationship. Reid lives his life in a reckless way, and ever since his...
One of the reasons AA works is that the individual makes the decision not to drink, one day at a time. One hour. One minute even. You can do that, right? One minute?...There's one minute. You're stron...
Or maybe I look in the mirror every day and am scared as shit that I’ll see either of my parents looking back at me.
Remember last fall, when you needed to be reckless, and I told you to use me? Well, now, it's time to be fearless. I can't promise that you won't be hurt again, because life can suck. And, sometimes i...
You may be the only one who'll see through all my bullshit and help me try to be something more, something better.I stare at our intertwined hands. I don't want to help you try to be anything. I want...
She's like a wind-up monkey that winds itself.
What the hell is it about brooding guys that’s attractive to women, anyway? I’ve become one since Dori’s call three weeks ago, and it’s made me more of a chick magnet. I shouldn’t be surprised—being a...
So I don't want you to feel pressured. Or overpowered. But I do, absolutely, want to kiss you right now. Badly.
Some of us can begin to heal the damage people have done to us by escaping the situation, but some of us need more than that. Tattoos make statements that need to be made. Or hide things that are no o...
Somebody always wants more.
Take this. When you’re ready, I want to put it on your finger. I want you to meet my son. I want you to let me bring you into my world – because I need you there. The media crap is just PR. Piece of c...
Testing her sexuality, she thinks she's caught a beautiful fish, when in reality, she's netted a shark.
That macho protective bullshit is just some asshat man pissing on his territory so the other dogs will stay away.
That’s what faith is, right?’ he says. ‘Believing in what can’t be known? Fall into my arms, Dori. I’ll catch you, every time, and I won’t let go.
The exception is I'm not going away. Don't ask me to do that ever again.
The night we met –’ ‘I’m not like that guy.
The night we met –’
The world an author creates and the characters that inhabit it may come from her imagination alone, but few authors can wrestle the story that emerges into shape without help.
They say the brain can block painful memories, leaving gaps and voids in place of them, but it didn’t work like that for me. I remembered everything.
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