Am I in trouble? He chortled, “well, a bunch of not-so-friendly thugs were waiting to ambush you and blow up your apartment. If that doesn’t qualify as trouble, I don’t know what does.

As a fiction writer I am not always sure where reality ends and non reality begins, when sane thoughts become less than sane, or what is imagination versus undiscovered truth, but ultimately, it is my...

Mark had a better chance interpreting body language at Madame Tussauds.

She’s alone, Inserted so deep in her blankets; I’m going to need a map to find her.

It was the fear of good things happening, because they, sooner or later, would lead to something bad.

In Paris, the dance was everything. The dance of romance was what a man could remember in his old age. Didn’t all young Americans come to Europe in search of that kind of romance?

I always assumed it owed more to the fact that he didn’t like me.

You always were the hot head. You got a temper in you that can’t be tamed, yet you also got a soft spot for stray dogs, kids in trouble and damsels in distress. See why...

Leaning forward he placed his lips over hers. She told herself he was breathing life into her, but the truth was he’d always been sucking it out, slowly, one breath at a time. – From...

It took me most of my childhood to realize that traditions have infinite power over us.-MUKTA

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...

Blood doesn’t make a family.

Her body was spattered with tiny bits of the reverend’s flesh and blood, like someone had combined shrimp and tomato soup and then forgot to put the lid on the blender.

An hour before his world exploded like a ripe tomato under a stiletto heel, Myron bit into a fresh pastry that tasted suspiciously like urinal cake.

God allows us to face the tension whether we like it or not.

No matter which way you dice it, self-preservation is selfish.

Anything and everything made her think about him. He was so much a part of her, embedded in her soul. [Mina and Diego]

Your mother is holding your hand too tightly. You whimper and cling to her dress, because you know what will happen next. She stares at you, as if she’s forgotten how to blink. There’s one...

Michelle: It wasn’t my house. It was owned by a brownie couple who owned it and rented out suites. There were a few long-term renters, like me, but it also functioned as a bed and...

—Quería preguntártelo algún día, cuando fuera el momento adecuado, pero hemos comenzado a hablar…[…]—La miró a los ojos mientras le acariciaba la mejilla con los nudillos—. Estoy ante ti sin nada, bella, solo te entrego...

If you can get to be you, why can’t I get to be me?

I know you. Perversity is your aphrodisiac.

I believe that on any trip to heaven, there are always detours through hell.

Distance and time and a whitewashed mind hadn’t kept a child from growing, from existing, from demanding a place on this earth.

The trap I remember forever: how they got out I have long since forgotten.

…We were pulling into the next station, when the woman suddenly got to her feet and made a move to squeeze past me. As her knees made contact with mine, she turned towards me. Her...

No wonder Thanksgiving was my favorite—you can’t buy it, wrap it, or put it under a tree, and even the greeting card companies can’t seem to make a buck off of it. It’s just a...

After a lifetime of wanting to be loved, she didn’t think she could bear it if it finally happened just before she was about to die.

I will not let them harm you. I will protect you ’till my last breath.

The dimples spread across his face again and Megan couldn’t help but melt a little

Extraordinary women who love and heal.

Because he wants her.

She had a hand on his belt, ready to show him exactly what she had in mind for the night, when he lowered to his knees between her legs, his hands spanning her ribs. Nervousness...

We’re here and we prey on you.We target you.We groom you.

Elsa’s mother no longer spoke to her of men and love, but of duty and fate and accepting one’s burden. As far as Elsa could tell, if love really was the inherited female domain, then...

Feel it, deal with it, then throw it away

A young man held a young woman in his arms, her head leaned to one side, her eyes empty and still. He was shadowed, but I saw that the figure was kissing the girl’s neck....

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These mega-churches are springing up all over the country—especially in the suburbs of large cities. And they all follow the same formula: A charismatic, self-anointed pastor starts a church by holding services in a home,...

Here’s the thing,” I said. “I’m not going to be the government’s bitch.

Suspense left my life a long time ago, now it has returned. I do not care for it.

Your best kicks ass and takes names,” Jack says, and he punches my shoulder again.

Eric waited all his life for love and, in meeting, Tina thought he had it. What he got wasn’t quite what he’d dreamed about.

The finger in the jar atop the entertainment center served as a reminder: death was far kinder than the fate Juanita could have suffered at the hands of that other man.

Woolrich had a genius for creating types of story perfectly consonant with his world: the noir cop story, the clock race story, the waking nightmare, the oscillation thriller, the headlong through the night story, the...

Jeopardy, Mom! You have got to get on Jeopardy! Seriously! You could marry Alex Trebek! You could be Alex and Alex Trebek! You could be Alex SQUARED!

Not writing is never an option. This is not words of advice. It’s just literally never an option!

Apparently, we’re all in the frame,” I heard Harry murmur somewhere behind me. And I whirled back to him. Innate, irrational anger surged. Then stopped, dead – as I suddenly took in Handsome, Robert and...

Everything is an echo of something I once read.Dream, hope, and celebrate life!Love always comes back in a song.One thing we all have in common is a love for food and drink.Memories never die, and...

You can make a day of any size.