You know she needs you. Think for a minute instead of playing the wounded ego card.’’ — Derek

As we travel in time and on Equator, we will find our souls and then move in time towards time.

You could choose anywhere instead of this house. I know I wouldn’t be here if I didn’t have to be.” The spider said nothing. Come to think of it, Callum was sure the spider hadn’t...

Don’t invite envy to your house – you never know who will show up,” she used to warn me.

It’s late and most of the clerks are at home in their beds, dreaming of swimming in pools filled with real money.

Maxwell D. Kalist is a receiving teller at a city bank, Orwell and Finch, where he runs an efficient department of twenty two clerks and twelve junior clerks. He carries a leather-bound vade mecum everywhere...

Around eighth grade Margot started getting really sensitive about her weight, even though she wasn’t remotely fat—just a little round-faced. So Margot did what any normal fourteen-year-old girl would do. She started puking on purpose,...

He wasn’t kissing me like I was going to break; he was kissing me like he thought he would break without this kiss.

Life is something that no one can teach you,You have to learn it.

My mouth only does one thing well, and talking’s not it.

I used to think that distance makes the heart grow fonder, but I guess it’s more so of a case-by-case thing when I look at it now. It especially doesn’t help when most of the...

uh, yeah, I love…worms” Classic. Someone should record the gold that flows from my mouth.

All I could think about was the heat of his soft lips, the way they fitted so wonderfully as I was coaxing him to open them some more, just enough to let my tongue slip...

I want him and even if it’s frightening, even if I may not be completely ready for a relationship, I want him. Now… And tomorrow, and all the following days.

I am neither modern nor ancient – just contemporary, as every Guru was. If one is not relevant for today, what is the point?

There were many tomorrows to be lived through his children. He could only hope that they would face them more courageously than he had, that his mistakes would serve as warning signs rather than crutches...

Ew! Dad!

Heads swivel. Whispers erupt. As Kalist returns to his desk, bone cane by his side, he indulges, briefly, in horse practice, neighing lightly as he scrolls through a few mental images of busty secretary, Geiger,...

Impressive,” Court offered, gallantly bending to retrieve the shoe. “You should join the theater.””Fuck you.””I owed you that.””Revenge is a dish best served with a side of handcuffs and a hard ass-fucking. Remember that.”Really is...

You don’t have to tell them. All they need to do is look in the mirror. I have one friend out in New York, an attorney. She moved out there after the school year to...

Forgivenesss: It’s a miracle drug. It’s God’s miracle drug.

I’d skipped the crush kiddie pool and jumped right into the deep, shark-infested ocean of emotions. And, if you’ll forgive the dramatic metaphor, I was a lousy swimmer.

I think you still love me,’ he says, ‘even though you don’t want to.’I glare at him, fury battling my instincts.‘Because that kind of love, Jessa,’ Kit continues, ‘doesn’t just disappear. It doesn’t just fade....

… she was a pudding of immaturity and precocious wisdom that had not yet set into a stable mold.

Poetry is not an art, it’s a symptom.

I listen closely to her breathing getting slower, deeper until her hand settles over my heart, only beating for her. — Duke

My father and I used to watch a ton of old horror movies when I was growing up. ’The Creature from the Black Lagoon‘ was one of my father’s favorites and he was very excited...

He said they’ve literally set up a camp across the street from the hotel and they have signs and bullhorns and the kind of Christian attitude that makes God puke.

…twenty.” – Faolán MacIntyre

I love you Bonnie. So much that I hurt with it. And I hate it, and I love it, and I want it to go away, and i want it to stay forever….

Obelmäker is eating at his desk, a habit both Baumauer and Pissec find repulsive.

This girl owns me, whether she realizes it or not. I’m a slave to her will.

I kind of thought actually that Trevor was gone completely mental when he called up here a few weeks ago. Like, why would he not text or email or Facebook? What’s with all the reality,...

The gossip will kill your Great Grandmother.

They were opposite in so many ways, but it was the kind of difference that was balancing-her softness with his steel, his instinct and her logic. He was teaching her by example to have courage...

If I was smart now, I would simply walk back the way I had come instead of proceeding forward into the face of danger. Obviously there was a part of me that had considered facing...

It wasn’t fair. It wasn’t fair that I’d stumbled across the kind of man I used to find irresistible, or that he’d managed to stare right inside my head to locate my weaknesses. The thrill...

We’re enveloped in pitch black. “Wait here,” I whisper.”Are you getting your ax?””Handcuffs.””Kinky. But, okay, I’ll try it.

Will you be able to touch me again without thinking about Sean? I don’t want you to be disgusted by me.

A nation forgetting its own laughter is in a sad state of affairs

Let’s get out of here.”He tugged her from the dance floor, trying not to rush like he was running from a fire. But, damn. There was a fire in his britches.

So our narcissism has bared forth an unflattering nakedness that shames our species. But this is humanity. This is our condition.

Without pride, man becomes a parasite – and there are already too many parasites.

Each day of the week, Kalist indulges himself in a different, secret ritual. On Mondays, he wears cologne. On Tuesdays, he eats meat for lunch. On Wednesdays, he places a bet after work. On Thursdays,...

See, the thing is, I had a little misunderstanding with Trent Gibson in Pre-Calculus earlier. I dropped my textbook on his face—accidentally, while we were discussing some…equations—and he thought I was trying to brain him....

Kyle must have seen my panic, because when I looked up at him again, his jacket and shirt were off and he was handing me his shirt. The sight of him with no shirt on...

Enjoy the tiny unexplainable second. You can learn whatever you want.

I’m sorry he won’t talk to you. And I’m sorry that he keeps hurting you. I really am. I don’t know how to fix things between you two, but I think a place to start...

I didn’t put him in his place. I was acknowledging his blind spot. We all have them. It just takes the right push to be able to really see them.

What could I offer the local bad boy except my livelihood? Oh, I know. My body or my planes! Why didn’t I think of that? Would you have preferred that I offer him my body,...