His kiss was like no other! His kiss was enchanted and fairy-tale like. He applied pressure, but just enough to feel his tenderness and warmth. I could feel his heart beating wildly as he pressed...

You’re safe now. Remember that. Believe that.

Recuerda lo que valga la pena recordar. Ignora el resto.

She would keep playing the role of the winner as long as the audience believed her.

They shared a sensation that was as addictive as a needle full of heroin to a street junkie.

I appreciate the gesture, but you don’t have to undress in order to apologize

Light has a voice?” Sarucha inquired, amazed.

For anyone who wanted to throw away his watch, along with his past, this was the place.

If you believe it, is it real, or is it real because you believe it?

She tugged on his hair. “I’ll have you know I’m no weakling.”He grinned and kissed her forehead. “No, it takes a strong woman to kill a truck.

Sandy’s was one of those places that made poor, white trash feel like high-class consumers. This was the kind of place you’d take your mistress to, but never your wife. Wives expected better. Mistresses were...

There was some violence a year ago. An important kid got shot during an attempted kidnapping while on spring break in Mexico. The Fortune 500 went security crazy. Now rich kids like Jack need a...

Hold on!” The ground is so close and I can see the green grass and smell the scent of it mixed with the sulfur. He helps me turn around and I lock my arms around...

Do you ever wear leather?” the guy asks.”What?””Leather. Do you like leather?””It doesn’t exactly wipe me out.””I like to see boys in leather.”I look at him cool. “Okay,” I say, “what is it you want...

When you stop chasing your dreams, your dreams start chasing you.

It never was about the musician or the instrument – it was about the laser notes in a hall of mirrors, the music itself. It was going to change the world for the better and...

Oil and Water, Daddy calls us. At four years younger than me, Katie is only fourteen and she already has half the boys in town eating from her pretty little hand. She tells me I...

You make velocity look good.

She had her sonar continually set for excuses to entertain, to bring together influential and powerful people in a mix that hummed, sizzled, throbbed, and sometimes burst into flames. But I was delighted to be...

If God gave Abraham a ram to prevent his slaying Isaac, He might stick a donkey in the bush for me to ride up this infernal mountainside.”~ Grace Madison, PhD.

Jesus honey, your husband ain’t dead, he’s in hiding.” He growled, watching her visibly flinch. – Jase Devlin

What I’ve always taken away from his words is the sense that we all have something that confines us, that seeks to define us, label us, belittling us in the process, shortchanging our potential. Can...

I’m a sensual adventurer, Sue. I want to explore the passion I feel, really dig into the heart of it, the dark parts, too. I wanted to take you on that journey with me. But...

That made love—not grace—the magic ingredient. Then anew thought hit her. Perhaps love was grace. A shiver wentup her spine. What did that make anger? The antithesis ofgrace?

I’m giving serious thought into eating yor wife” – Hannibal Lecter

I want to be both for you, Octavian,” she whispered, letting her lips brush the curve of his shoulder.

Virginia screamed, grabbing for the door handle and nearly throwing herself from the moving car. James swerved to the side of the road, slamming on the brakes before she killed herself trying to escape. As...

We are going to hell together. But we’re coming back alive. Don’t forget that.

He held her forever. Ashy flickers swam in his eyes, shadows of temptation drawing her into infinite depths. A breath away from his tantalising mouth, she parted her lips. The thudding of her pulse hurt....

Bite me.

In the temple, I sit on the cool floor next to Grandfather, beneath the stern benevolence of the goddess’s glance. Grandfather is clad in only a traditional silk dhoti–no fancy modern clothes for him. That’s...

Eve: What is it about asking you Catholic questions that gets you all jumpy?Roarke: You’d be jumpy, too, if I asked you things that make you feel the hot breath of hell at your back.Eve:...

Just think it through Ace. I’m sure the answer will come to you… eventually.” Jake sat there in silence, staring at the closed door to Sher’s bedroom. What had just happened here? Well, he’d just...

Good, Star, because you may have felt you were the one needing saving, but it was me all along. You saved me. You taught me to love again. The ones you love may do things...

And if we don’t keep moving, we won’t make it to a computer in time to stop the submarine sale because we’ll have to spend a second night in the jungle, surrounded by friggin’ pit...

Have you ever met someone for the first time, but in your heart you feel as if you’ve met them before?

One morning, as he sat at his desk, he heard the sound of a horse’s hooves on the path outside his house. He stepped out on to the verandah. There, on a tall grey horse,...

Nothing is ‘wrong’ with me, Dan. What’s wrong with you? she said in the same eerily quiet voice, dark eyes fixated on Dan, as she breathed heavily.

You can speak to me like you haven’t spoken even to yourself.

He threw himself to his knees at the stone and tore his damning testimony from the pages of its testament. He held the only evidence of his identity in his hand and in one motion...

Deep inside her (ih her harrowed soul) she felt a glowing ember of fury at the man responsible for this. Tha man who had put her in this position. She looked at the pistol lying...

Attorno a noi ci sono colori che prima non avevo mai notato. Il blu dei pavimenti. L’azzurro degli infissi. Il giallo ocra nelle ombre. Le sfumature viola sui soffitti, e dentro agli occhi della gente....

He reasoned, even as a young man, that traditions may linger as he walked though the oracles of time. In later years he thought his mind may one day blur, should he survive to an...

Surprise is when a prime minister is assassinated during his speech. Suspense is when an assassin lurks while the prime minister speaks. Balancing surprise and suspense is the job of the thriller writer.

I don’t know,when they were giving out best friends at the carnival, he was all they had left-Nate

She fully expected to see a maniacal killer raising his arms with a plastic bag in his hands to suffocate her

If I find out that you went within even fifty feet of her, ever again, your ass is mine. Do I make myself clear?

It’s easier to spew hatred, but actually watching yourself doing it is a whole different story.

She hit the button again, holding her breath this time until she heard it.Soft, sibilant, as insubstantial as the breaths that came before: Shannon. The voice whispered Shannon. The blood rushed out of her head....

Avid readers are the most authentic creatures on the face of the earth, and their hearts and minds are not for sale at any price. “Mysteries for the Inspired Traveler” Goodreads blog