If you want the extra-ordinary, you’ve got to be willing to forsake the ordinary’ – Annie Grimes in Mr Alhourani’s Dead Man’s Spots

Vibrizzio? You named it! Okay, this isn’t even close to healthy.

I have a head for business and a body for sin. Unfortunately, the sin appears to be gluttony.

It’s simply about gratitude and honor. It’s about finding the joy in each of life’s little facets, even the ones that are otherwise considered mundane. It’s all a matter of perspective, I guess. Each day...

Honey, that man would do anything to keep you. Lie, steal, cheat, kill, clean up after himself, and do laundry.

I can see the stars in your eyes from a mile away. They guide me to you just like the North Star.” Then he bent his head and kissed her – a long, sweet kiss...

Excerpt from page 3 of “Wicked Washington”Shelly Williams, the main character, speaking about her life:And close and dangerous calls were almost my last name. Yet I felt as comfortable among the street hustlers, junkies, thieves,...

If I didn’t have a job, I might have stayed in bed until I rotted.

Welcome to Temptation.

I’ll be as loving as you will be, as stubborn as I know you are, as passionate as I’m thankful you are and as supportive and understanding as I’ve known you to be. You are...

Why did you wear heels? How are you supposed to fight a gargoyle in what you’re wearing?

This, Sebastian is no mere purse. And, you shouldn’t call a handbag a purse…..a bag, on the other hand, is meant to be seen.

Tomorrow I’d probably wake up to find my shoes talking to me. And let me tell you, the price I pay for shoes, they’d have one heck of an attitude.

What I have been asking myself for years is: WHY?!Why kill yourself in the gym? Why try to avoid a little bit of a gut? Why feel bad for eating half of a cake? This...

I’m not sure if you’ve noticed this yet, but Jenny Sullivan likes to overuse people’s first names. It’s a technique she read about in a book called Own It – Take Life By The Bollocks....

The urge to change my mind and not go at all is enormous. I’m absolutely terrified to leave on that boat. But, if I don’t go, there’ll be one more broken person in this world...

Gideon laughed. “I like to be direct.””Okay,” I said. “But I warn you, I like to be evasive, inserutable and generally send mixed messages.” “I doubt it.””Human interaction is not my strong point,” I told...

Well, can you tell her that?”He looked down at his feet. “I will. I will.”Guy-speak for, “I plan to keep avoiding her until she gives up.

it’s okay if college isn’t your thing. I’m sure there’s a pole somewhere with your name on it, but next time you might not want to buy your tits off Craig’s List. Just sayin’.

I violently dislike you,’ she said, and then she was gone, slamming the door and leaving a sort of shocked silence behind.

Back in time it seemed that having a sister were a tragedy. Instead it is one of the best presents my parents could have ever given me.

chick lit” and for the most part the term doesn’t bother me. I think it simply signals to readers that the book is about women, written for women (although many men enjoy my books), about...

I remember a scared, young girl hiding in the guise of arrogance and rebellion. I remember feeling lost in a world where everyone else seemed to have it all figured out. I remember the tears...

There’s a saying, isn’t there, that when you’ve had a near death experience, all you want to do is have sex?

You’ll get fired if anyone finds out about us!””So many rules in this century,” Vane muttered.

Vanilla is fine but Kink is so much better…

Mags, I’m yours. You have nothing to worry about.

Stop looking for your better half! You need to be whole to attract your better whole, if you expect to have a flourishing relationship.

Between dainty bites, she told Amie, ‘Oh, you simply are as darling a creature as Henry described! I had no idea of your being so grown up! Henry, she is positively frazzleging!’ Amie deepened her...

A mysterious ability, a broken promise, a life changed forever…

Depressed beyond what I’d previously thought possible, I stripped, showered, and slipped on a fresh pair of jeans and a tee shirt and headed for my mom’s, trying to figure out why a bank would...

Plus, I happened to be a history nerd. Why else would I be interested in a guy born in the year 519?

I plastered on my best poker face, attempting to appear cool and casual even thought I had never been so eager to deliver two Chicken Parmagianas in my life.”Just be careful, hon,” Rosanna said.”Oh, are...

Life Lessons According to Camryn:One must handle stress like a dog; if you can’t eat it or play with it, pee on it and walk away

If you only attract Mr. Wrong or Ms. Crazy, evaluate the common thread in this diversity of people: YOU!

Looks like my superpowers don’t come with automatic manicures, thank heaven. I hate long nails.

Come un raggio di luce che sbuca impertinente tra nuvole bige di un celo autunnale, un’idea si fece largo tra i miei pensieri, un’illuminazione: Sèbastien era sempre stato gentile con me, perché preso da me...

Life has a whimsical way of kicking you in the throat. I find it tobe one huge cosmic joke at our expense, only nobody is laughingbut the forces that be—given that they are even a...

If I were to lock you up in a dungeon, I guarantee you would not be bored.

Spilling a Secret What its size, will have varying consequences. It’s not possible to predict what will happen if you open the gunnysack, let the cat escape. A liberated feline might purr on your lap,...

There was a part of me that was so horny, I wanted to climb on top of Randall on the first date. But there was also a part of me that was so terrified, I...

Don’t get mad about the infestation of fleas if you keep shopping at the dog pound.

I am the Merlin, bane of the Vale, terror of the four lands. I am chaos and shadows, the last of my people.

Two must rule together, one for the night and one for the day. this is the way it has always been done.

She says it is a school for bluestockings which, according to her, is really only a fashionable way of saying it is a school for ugly girls who cannot find suitable husbands. To tease her,...

The last declaration he’d made to me hung between us. The L word. The one that had nothing to do with like.

I began to think I quite liked her really. It’s always so nice to meet someone more badly behaved than oneself.

I hoped Claire would have a girl. A nephew would be fun until he got his first erection and then he’d be like the rest of them.

Relationships are not additive, but multiplicative because you connect with his/her childhood experiences, past relationships, thoughts on money and more.

Amie frowned. ‘That’s what I can’t figure out. I mean everyone wants their happy ending, right? No one cares about reading actual literature anymore anyway. All they want is vampires and supernatural mumbo-jumbo. It’s sick,...