The tides rolled up to crash against the shore while we sat feet from one another with the remnants of all we’d left unsaid driving us apart.

All of the things that were shown in early studies to be good for longevity—happy marriages, healthy bodies—are ours to have. We live long,good lives. We die on our eightieth birthdays, surrounded by our families,...

Kent had begun sleeping with his good eye open, for he knew the mark of sedition when he saw it. Even partway blinded, who could see it better?

There isn’t much difference between “giving” and “leaving”. While the former will ALWAYS come back to you, the latter will only do if it was meant to be yours in the first place.

I don’t believe that. I won’t accept it. I want a million lives with you. You’re my heaven.

I love you Ahmar and I would not leave you. Ever.

Love’s a game where the odds are permanently fixed. The house always wins, and anyone stupid enough to sit at the table is lucky if they walk away with their soul intact.

In the end, it doesn’t matter, but I wanted you to know; I needed you to know because I read your text to Sarah. You told her I was everything you never thought you could...

Mika: Sometimes I just feel like you don’t want to be like this with me.Letti: Like what with you? You have no idea how much I want to be with you Mika.Mika: So, why don’t...

Era la verdad más absoluta que yo conocía, igual que el sol sabe que debe salir por la mañana, igual que los capullos de rosa saben que deben florecer en primavera. Estaba en mis venas,...

Strano come certi ridicoli rituali appaiano perfettamente sensati quando si è innamorati.

Do not shy away from the sensations I create, Cherry Blossom. Take pride in them, as I do.

It felt terrific. It felt deeper and richer than laughter. It felt like opening a door and tumbling headfirst into a pile of feathers.

Lea was on the floor of a stall hugging a toilet. When she heard the door close, she lifted her head and gave me a half smile of embarrassment.’Gracie, I’ve been chemically inconvenienced and I...

Bailey, you are who you are, like no other. Embrace it.

Her light was so brilliant it burned my guilty shadow onto the floor, but I was not blinded.

My gender ceased to exist inside me whenever I sing my feelings; soul has no gender.

So if I speak to you, Tutor Olana, will you get the lashes?

Sé que mañana despertaré, Gryal, y lo haré tan vacía y triste como un río sin lluvia. Dime, amado, ,quién será mi lluvia? ,Quién mojará mi cuerpo cuando me faltes? Vuelve, amor, vuelve sano y...

I wanted the fairytale.

But the thought of moving on from something I never had is depressing.

In the case of our fair maiden, we have overlooked two very crucial aspects to that myth. On the one hand, none of us ever really believed the sorcerer was real. We thought we could...

Those moments should be the ones you etch into your mind and think about – not the ones where things were bad or didn’t go the way you thought they should. The only moments that...

Fantastic accomplishments seem like something unattainable and everyone doing the extraordinary seems to be unlike you until YOU do something amazing. Then you realize those talented, heroic leaders are not different from you in any...

There are three possible parts to a date, of which at least two must be offered: entertainment, food, and affection. It is customary to begin a series of dates with a great deal of entertainment,...

Sweetheart, darling, dearest, it was funny to think that these endearments, which used to sound exceedingly sentimental in movies and books, now held great importance, simple but true verbal affirmations of how they felt for...

I’d love that,” Ken whispered.

But there was a monster lurking in the deepest, blackest corners of his soul. An angry, slathering, vengeful beast, who had a mouth full of butcher knives and a tongue that dripped acid. A monster...

Her heart had grown so familiar to the pain of life without him, that to respond now seemed too large a pleasure she could not endure. If pain was love, then she loved fiercely. Yet...

His hand snapped shut over the device and then he crossed his arms. Aria stared in horror. Her Smarteye was buried in a Neanderthal’s armpit.

You broke my heart.I fell for you and you broke my heart.Period, done, end of story.

…sometimes we have to find the courage to take off our shoes and feel it all. Even the bad stuff.

Crossing the small wooden bridge, just past the rubble, Gabe ducked off to the left and swooped underneath into hiding. Once sure he was secure, and could not be seen by those that passed overhead,...

Women were supposed to be the enigmas, but men? Moody, brooding bastards, the lot of them. A woman with PMS had nothing on a man. Where women might get hormonal once a month, men suffered...

I can’t rock you on my lap, if you’re not here.

I so desperately wanted to be his gravity, to hold him on this earth and keep him from leaving me.

When a woman reads a romance novel, she is putting her own pleasure first. That small act of rebellion is perceived as a threat to the status quo. It’s also why this eternally popular and...

Excuse me,’ I said cheerily. ‘Is the job still going?’ I pointed to the notice.‘Of course,’ he said, looking back at me with a warm smile. I think he was as hopeful as I was...

…She squeezed Niall’s hand and bleakly said, “I don’t want you hurt.””Oh, Serena, that’s all I have to know.” And with that, he kissed her so passionately, she felt as though she had fae transported...

They say time heals all, But time is our only enemy; breathe deep and find strength to smile tonight, for the morning may never come

She was a woman of combined beauty and quiet strength. No wonder he had fallen in love with her so many years ago. No wonder he was in love with her now. And she would...

The way he said it, with a twinkle in his already too-twinkly blue eyes, made Aimee feel twinkly, too.

His shirt is covered in my sorrow and stained with my tears.

I’ve never even been to Long Island

The price of love is always just above that what your heart can afford

My heart cracked. Daemon never begged.

Tragedy often gives birth to courage, it offers man a platform to change what will be.”Eli Storm, Emanuel Stone And The Phoenix Shadow

Felicity,” Mrs. Featherington interurupted, “why don’t you tell Mr. Brdgerton about your watercolors?”For the life of him, Colin couldn’t imagine a less interesting topic (except maybe for Phillipa’s watercolors), but he nonetheless turned to the...

The evangelist is the world’s hopeless romantic, and just like a hopeless romantic, he must hope for the miracle of God more than the romance itself.

Three years? That’s a thousand tomorrows, ma’am.