Life ain’t worth livin’, Jules, if you don’t take a few risks and I’m not talkin’ about puttin’ your ass on the line to save the world. I’m talkin’ about puttin’ your ass on the...

Never. For good and always, you have lost me. Na me lapay kahLahn. Not anymore.”**

I never dreamed any fuckin’ dream,” he whispered, and the smile faded from her face as tears filled her eyes.She understood him.”Shy-“”Didn’t dream it, saw it, waited my time, and then you gave it to...

Think that street lingo was the street lingo about eight decades ago, Hanna. So now it’s just lingo.

Mitch—“”All right, baby, I’ll shut you up.”Then he did, his head slanting and his lips taking mine in a repeat performance of the open-mouthed, knock my socks off, rock my world, best kiss in the...

Lonely’s a different kind of pain, it doesn’t hurt as bad as heartbreak. I preferred it and embraced it ‘cause I reckoned it was one or the other.

No, I’m lying under one.

I lay under Luke, pretty certain I was going to die and wishing I’d made a will. Now, my sisters and mother were going to get all Aunt Ella’s money. I should have left it...

I may have mentioned patience wasn’t one of my virtues. Actually, I didn’t have many virtues but patience definitely wasn’t one of them.

Jealousy is an ugly emotion that makes people do some seriously whacked shit and when a woman is experiencing it, it’s worse.

Compassion is often mistaken for weakness, when the fact is, there is very little that is more powerful than the courage it takes to give it.

Finally, realization dawned.I belonged to Luke. I was Luke’s woman.Hell, I had probably been born to be Luke’s woman (if you believed that kind of shit).

I’m with him because when I’m with him, I’m free to be me. I’m with him because he’s hot. I’m with him because he lets me blather, since I’m prone to blathering, and he lets...

Most men prefer to do the eating.”Holy fucking cow.

Yeah, I get that. Johnny Depp came in and fixed my faucet then told me he wanted to try my pizza that would freak me out too. But I’d still make him my freaking pizza.

You’re beautiful, Finnie, but by the gods you have never been more beautiful than you are right now, spread before me, wrapped in my wool and filled with me

I’d eat a picnic in Hades with him.

My gaze moved to Vance. He was looking up at me and I could read nothing in his eyes.”Another pop?” I asked.He shook his head but kept watching me. I looked at the floor and...

Friends fit in your life, Benji added. They don’t take away from you living it

First fuckin’ time you smiled at me in my bed, that’s when it happened,” he murmured.

Woman. Buckle

It’s my experience that a weakness understood is no weakness. If you know you have it, even if you can’t control it, you can make allowances for it. It is those who ignore or don’t...

And I wake up happy, baby, because I possess beauty and I own that beauty in all the forms it can take and the least important of those are physical.

I’d once had a long-term relationship with a Five Point Five that got nowhere near living together. This was because I was a Two Point Five, he was a Five Point Five and he wanted...

Waiting for a long time, but I guess I know what you mean. My life began when I met him.

However, at fourteen years old, she didn’t understand that all those terrible troubles the heroines in her books went through in real life hurt.That the words were just words on a page, but in real...

Even though I felt like crying, I did my very best to smile.

Coffee,’ Walker said over me. ‘Now.

He flipped it open, gently tugged out the oft-touched photo and looked into a pair of familiar golden eyes. “She’s happy, Andie,” he whispered to his wife. Andromeda Quinn did what she always did. She...

My eyes went to him. “Your rule, honey. I can go put panties on.” His eyes came to me. “You do, I get the strap.

There are very few, very fuckin’ few people, Kia, who get what’s precious in this world. They work their asses off for pure shit and think they’d fight and die to keep it. You don’t...

You too, Captain,” I whispered…’Lauren and Tate, in Sweet Dreams

Took you to work, brought you to my house, you cooked, we ate, we watched TV, all good. No fights. No backtalk. All day. But all good things come to an end.

I’l erase your day

You know, take one letter out of his name and it spells ‘ damn’ as in ‘damn, that kid’s a worthless sonovabitch’.

Tex’s head snapped in my direction.Fuckin’ A, woman, you’ve never had a s’more? he boomedI shook my head.Christ, everyone’s gotta have a s’more before they die. Fuck that shit, I’ll build a fire in my...

Thank you for keeping it a secret. There aren’t many of those in this tribe.

Rule Number One in the India Savage Life Code: When in doubt or possible trouble, lie.

You’re my gold, nahna xaxsah is my hahnee rah. Kay jahnan nahna lisa, na uvan tee luh kay. Ana kay jahnan nahna pahnsahna, Circe. Kay nayeesan tee. Fahzah.You’re my gold, your cunt is my liquid...

You fight with Niles?” Max asked suddenly.”No.””Never?””No! And stop asking about Niles,” I demanded.He ignored my demand and kept questioning. “Didn’t care enough to fight, didn’t match you in fire, or was so lazy he...

Yes, I read. And yes, I do it a lot. And yes, I did it before you because life can suck and living in a fantasy world is a lot more fun than living in...

You taste injustice, even if it’s fictional, really taste it,it has a way of doing that. Sometimes, you can never put the shoe on the other foot. We can’t go back in time and know...

How you feel about marrying me?” he asked in my ear.