It was a place where water brought together all elements. Water glittered with fire, water touched the banks of earth, water rippled with the touch of air. As for the fifth element, the Spirit that...

Tell me you’re not going to do anything stupid.” “I’m not that kind of guy, Peter.” “Not usually, no. But I’ve seen the look you’ve got in your eyes. A guy so consumed with his...

She chose the adjective deliberately. Handsome or sexy conveyed surface appeal. Beautiful addressed the whole package, inside and out.

This wasn’t romance. This was a hardcore Master out and out driving her to the upper level of madness, where her body was going to come completely to pieces before he was done. Cruel, but...

I have the right to try to overcome the challenges in my own life, she continued fiercely. Who’s to say that’s not what makes as strong and decent? How much character and strength do you...

He smiled then, and that smile was like the sunset, stretching from one end of her existence to the other, lighting her way not by sight, but with a slow kindle inside she knew would...

How far will you run, before you realize you’re not running away from me? You’re running to me.

I was crying on the back-porch swing. You came out with a corsage of fresh forget-me-nots and roses, and a handkerchief. You told me any guy worth my time would always come to me with...

There are twenty-five thousand, six hundred and twelve things you don’t know about me. I’ll tell you one each day.””That means it will take you seventy-plus years to know everything about me. When I turn...

You think I ever expected to find a woman with so many of the things I wanted in a relationship? Your sexual nature, your spiritual outlook, your beauty, inside and out. And some things I...

If my Master is lost, I’ll find him. I’ll lead him back to himself, because to serve doesn’t always mean to follow.

Little things matter far more than big ones. We remember them longer. We can’t control the big things. If you think about what’s happened in the past, it will be the small moments that come...

D/s can be dangerous, because it explores the most primitive sides of ourselves. Those involved must have a high degree of trust and very, very healthy devotion to one another. Like religion, it can be...