Suffering is my teacher. If I pay attention to it instead of trying to numb it out, maybe it can lead me to its root.

Un prim fulg de zăpadă se topi pe obrazul Anei. Şi apoi altul şi altul. Acum ştiau ce aşteptaseră.

If the love is true, it will wait until the dream becomes a reality. True love also gives strength to a dream.

Look at this, Grace,” Peg’s e-mail said. “He’s entrancing those people. I just realized. Taking them out of themselves. Ty is sort of like a medicine man. A shaman. P.S. Have you called him?

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...