Now the paperwork –-What if I don’t want to do the Ultimate, right away? Maybe I want to ease into this thing gently.-No you don’t.-I might. I might just want to ease into the activity,...

Mogadishu the beautiful – your white-turbaned mosques, baskets of anchovies as bright as mercury, jazz and shuffling feet, bird-boned servant girls with slow smiles, the blind white of your homes against the sapphire blue of...

I ask you, what would you do if you could erase one bad memory and retain all that was beautiful in your life? Would you not move heaven and earth – and get loads of...

You know how sometimes you remember a place you once loved, a movie you’ve enjoyed, only to be disappointed when you return to that place or see that movie for a second time? Well, it...

We’re all princes and princesses, at 5, 50, or 100! It’s never too late, we’re never too old to rock the world and contribute! Reaching for intimacy in all relationships? Delicious.

Less is Moor.

Ethan didn’t mind his blood being taken – he just disliked the fact that it had to be sucked through a needle in order to do it.

I suppose we cling because we fear losing something we hold dear, and the fear of that loss prevents us from seeing what we might gain if we were to just loosen our grip.” Marianne...

But he’s an untouchable, Shirin.’ ‘He’s my Untouchable Prince Charming, then. Only I am allowed to touch him.

Poe, come on. Don’t be like this.” She avoided his gaze, and that was killing him. He’d rather she yell at him than give him nothing at all.

Well this wasn’t Vegas, and this wasn’t Disneyland, this was ‘Erotica- The Theme Park – featuring Femdom World, Slave World, Bondage World, Spanking World – and so much more!’ -according to the brochure Jillian and...

In her orchard the trees had been born from deaths; they marked and grew from the remains of the children that had passed through her.

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...

Someone who dreams cannot be forced to stop—there are no limitations to dreams, because we do not own dreams, dreams are from God.

She liked the way a ray of mild autumn sun infiltrating the thick cluster of trees caught a reddish orange leaf swirling in the wind and transformed it golden yellow. She liked that it wasn’t...

I like these games we play, the ones that involve our heads and our hearts ~ Page 212

I don’t watch reality TV, my reality is tough enough.

Sometimes we need enemies more than we need friends. Mandy Walker

Every family has secrets, Reena, and they’re there for a reason.

Time seemed to drag with dreamlike slowness, like a knife through cold honey, and the room took on a surreal golden sheen as if I was looking through that same jar of honey. Maybe at...

The male staff all wore gorgeous colored loin cloths that always seem to be about to fall off they’re wonderful hips. Their upper bodies were tanned sculpted and naked.The female staff wore short shorts and...

As their figures recede, it strikes Filsan as ironic that they had delayed fleeing so they could take as many of their possessions as possible, but now those very possessions prevent their flight.

He wrote to his father every day. His platoon called his dad a girlfriend.

All I want is to sleep–to dream. Life is better in dreams.

She was a sleuth and sleuths had to follow rules. ‘Get to the point; don’t allow the subject to digress’ was one of them

When reading dies, the imagination soon follows.

Maryanne Burkhard and I have set up a B W Wrighthard profile on Goodreads. If any of you would like to friend us there, we would really appreciate it. And if you’re feeling really generous...

She was as lovely sleeping as she was dripping in sensuality at the fundraiser

Sometimes, it is easier to leave things as they are, rather than to fight, go against the flow.

Despite their macabre imaginations, they don’t believe the things they say, all those things about magic and fantômes. But I do. I know he lingers. I’ve heard his voice, soft as a lover’s whisper.

WHAT THE HELL WAS I DOING?! Oh, right.$1500.” From “Clown Porn” in “Broken Headbone

Innocence invites protection, yet we might be smarter to protect ourselves against it…

The list of lifesavers left him numb, clueless – the action, indifferent.

She realized, when relationships failed to last, it was not because love was no longer present, but because people had stopped believing in themselves and in their partners.

Have you been reading those books that clueless illiterate Duja in charge of the lending library lets you borrow?’ ‘No, Ma.’ ‘Then what put you in mind of devils possessing nuns to take over the...

Sarah, I’m going to take care of you whether you like it or not.

I wonder if every girl yearns for her father’s love,almost like waiting to catch the moon hiding in the trees—beautiful, yet so eternally elusive.-MUKTA

Parenthood doesn’t improve one’s character, it exposes it.

What better hiding place than an old, woodlice-ridden album of photographs!

The girl signed deeply and ever so slowly made her way down to the opposite end of the case. Using the metal tongs she passed over the golden yellow ladoo and reached for the darker...

When my cell phone rang, I’d just finished cutting up my marriage mattress.

The ragged curtains were reaching out across the room and the foot of the bed was soaked with rain. She got up and closed the window to protect her from the storm outside. However, there...

He also knew the language of The Klingons, but the army had no use for it.

Besides,love is only a feeling.

You are a girl, Shirin. Girls don’t run around naked.’‘Why?’‘They just don’t.

If I were a character in one of my books, I’d be the optimistic one, believing the best and urging others to do the same.

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

It’s not just about recognizing how ‘precious’ every moment is, or about ‘living for today.’ It’s about finding the sacred center of now, and living there, moment to moment, always.

You don’t live in luxury! You are relegated to sleep in the little store room behind the kitchen with the cockroaches and rats and are at the mercy of Mrs. Gupta,’ Reena was indignant. ‘It’s...

The girl sighed deeply and ever so slowly made her way down to the opposite end of the case. Using the metal tongs she passed over the golden yellow ladoo and reached for the darker...