Or, ‘Holy Kleenex, Batman, it was right under our nose and we blew it!’

I must be dreaming. Bring that sweet ass over here and I’ll show you what God made women and well-hung Scotsmen for.

When you were too young and naïve to see the risks, I incurred your wrath to protect you. Scream at me for it if you must. Thank me for it when you finally grow up.

Dying is overrated. Human sentimentality has twisted it into the ultimate act of love. Biggest load of bullshit in the world. Dying for someone isn’t the hard thing. The man that dies escapes. Plain and...

There are only two things to worry about in life: either you’re free or you’re not. If you’re free, there’s nothing to worry about. If you’re not, you kick the shit out of everything around...

When he kisses me again, the last part of me that could stand myself dies.

When did having a life become an event you had to schedule?

Nobody looks good in their darkest hour. But it’s those hours that make us what we are. We stand strong, or we cower. We emerge victorious, tempered by our trails, or fracture by a permanent,...

Attitude shapes reality.

I have studied humans for a small eternity. Intent infuses their every movement. Road maps to their inner navigation, plastered all over their skin. Born to be slaves.

And there you have it…if I knew that I could only have a few nights in that man’s arms or nothing, I would take those magic nights and use them to keep me warm for...

His heavy-lidded gaze reflected a languor that had nothing to do with having just awakened, and there was no doubt what was on his mind. But this is no safe cherry picker, Gwen thought, growing...

If I entered a tropical beach, would I end up in Nazi Germany with my highly inconvenient black hair?

Oh, I see. As long as you didn’t kill her, kill her, then that’s okay.

Although love could grow in times of peace, it tempered in battle. Daddy told me once – when I’d said something about how perfect his relationship with Mom was – that I should have seen...

I like sex for breakfast, kid. I eat early and often.

Barrons: “He got upset it wouldn’t shut up and tore its head off.”Mac: “The child?” I gasped

What was she going to do with two Drustans?A kinky part of her proposed something unmentionable and rather fascinating. Really, if they were both him, it wouldn’t be like she was cheating on anyone.

Words can be twisted into any shape. Promises can be made to lull the heart and seduce the soul. In the final analysis, words mean nothing. They are labels we give things in an effort...

I return my attention to the situation at hand and realize Reality—the impatient bitch—has made my decision for me. She does that a lot. You get busy planning your life, then it has the nerve...

She loves. And she doesn’t know how to pull it back when you have to, because sometimes you sure as feck have to. Got to grab it up with both hands and pull it back...

I kept it to remind me that although there is evil, there is sometimes beauty and light. You, Jillian. You were always my light.

With the Book hitching rides, hiding on people, guess we’re all going to be dressing like skanks for a while, huh? Skintight or skin. Dude, everybody’s everything’s gonna be hanging out, and some o’ those...

His coworker was velvety-skinned, a sexy boy-on-the-cusp-of man.

It’s hard to say what makes the mind piece things together in a sudden lightning flash. I’ve come to hold the human spirit in the highest regard. Like the body, it struggles to repair itself....

It was like being owned.”Some women like that.”Not me.”Perhaps it depends on the man doing the owning.”I doubt it. I couldn’t breathe with him kissing me.”One day you may kiss a man you can’t breathe...

Sex either blows your fucking mind, or it’s not good enough.

I make a new discovery that totally blows; dying is the easy part. It’s coming back to life that sucks.

Life equaled love plus passion squared. Loving and being passionate about what one did was what made life so precious.

It’s often only in the lies we refuse to speak that any truth can be heard at all.

Shut up. Don’t make me tell you again.”We shut up, which I find hysterically funny.

Flirtation doesn’t have to go somewhere; it certainly doesn’t need to end up in bed. I like to think of it as a little friendlier than a handshake, a little less intimate than a kiss....

Temptation isn’t a sin that you triumph over once, completely and then you’re free. Temptation slips into bed with you each night and helps you say your prayers. It wakes you in the morning with...

I’m taller than my father, and taller than two of the stones at Ban Drochaid.””I meant in feet,” she clarified. Speaking of the mundane gave her a measure of calm.He eyed his boots a moment...

A fecking flamethrower! Why didn’t I think of that? Best I came up with was a measly hair dryer.

Anyone worth knowing breaks once. Once. No shame, no foul if you survive it. You did.

Once, long ago in her world, a sunny day in spring was her favorite, but now a sunny day in winter delights her more. It is the perfect metaphor for their love.Sunshine on ice.She warms...

Driving a hot car is a lot like sex to me, or a lot like I keep thinking sex should be: A total body experience, overwhelming, to all the senses, taking you places you’ve never...

One day you do meet a man who kisses you and you can’t breathe around it and you realize you don’t need air.

I think sex with him might undo my essential cellular cohesion.

It’s not enough to listen to their words. You have to mine their silences for buried ore. It’s often only in the lies that we refuse to speak that truth can be heard at all.

Wither thou goest, there goest I, two flames sparked from but one ember; both forward and backward doth time fly, wither thou art, remember.

He had a come-and-get-me-baby-I’m-pure-trouble-and-you’re-gonna-love-it kind of attitude.

I would wear pink because I knew my future was anything but rosy. I would accessorize myself to the hilt, and I would wear flirty shoes because my world needed more beauty to counter all...

He gives me a look. I’m not even looking at him and I can feel it.

One of the first lessons a warrior is taught is that denial of one’s circumstances only results in failure to recognize real danger.

I love books, by the way, way more than movies. Movies tell you what to think. A good book lets you choose a few thoughts for yourself. Movies show you the pink house. A good...

The man kisses me and I just hop right on him like he’s the hottest new ride at Disneyland.

Life is too hard, too much to handle. Nobody told me there’d be days like these. How could nobody tell me there’d be days like these? How could they let me grow up like that—happy...

She doesn’t beg to speak, or do anything else. You can lock her up, down, and sideways and it’s never going to happen.”I beam at him. I had no idea he thought so highly of...