Reassuring thoughts have a funny way of getting stuck on repeat. Then you wake up one day and you can't remember where you put the last thirty years of your life.
You need a break every once in a while to enjoy the everyday and you need the everyday to enjoy the break you take every once in a while.
Living the rest of my life in Kerobokan, waiting to die, was what I had in front of me.
Don't just hope, dear. Plan and do. Only reserve hope for the things you cannot control.
Your choices can only be limited by your mind.
Besides, if it was the wrong choice, what difference was one more bad decision going to make?
I'd gotten on the piss and it had kicked me the fuck off. Hard.
Our bags will be light because it's the best way to travel.
She's happy to be home but being home means that it's an end to her adventure and escape.
The day, like all good days, passed far too quickly.
There's no need to blame fate or destiny for a stupid decision.
There has to be at least one other reason besides money that makes you do the things that you do.
Don't get me wrong, she was an attractive girl, but the last thing she needed was to get mixed up with me.
Your imagination and some masturbation is a much better alternative to finding out what kind of person a bit of casual sex transforms you into.
I think that Richard was more of a one-girl-for-the-rest-of-your-life-marry-and-make-a-family kind of guy.
Besides the pain in my gut, why shouldn't I laugh? I've almost escaped death in a foreign country.
And like tea dissolving in hot water, the sun dissolved in the sky… creating a velvet horizon, announcing for the stars’ night dance with the moon, the awaited joy for the wounded souls. -- From Bali...
Linda Heavner Gerald received a silver medal for Fiction from FAPA (Florida Authors and Publishers Association)