I looked to the ceiling and told God, “God, next time I want an adventure, strike me with lightning. You have my permission.
Wherever you are, however you got there, if it’s good, you’re meant to be there either because you earned it or life led you there and you were smart enough to hold on.
You sleep okay, sweetie?” “Miss my teddy,” Billie replied. Personally, I thought Detective Mitch Lawson was far superior to a tiny pink teddy bear but I wasn’t six years old.
And I wake up happy, baby, because I possess beauty and I own that beauty in all the forms it can take and the least important of those are physical.
Sweet dreams, baby,” he whispered into myhair, his arm giving me a squeeze. “See you onthe other side.”“You too, Captain,” I whispered…’Lauren and Tate, in Sweet Dreams
I need a timeout do to deal with my timeout! that’s how messed up I’m.
It was nostalgic in that painful way nostalgia could be
I wasn’t exactly good with children. I wasn’t bad with them, as such. I just wasn’t around them much and, because of that, when I was, they freaked me out because I didn’t know what to do with them.
However, at fourteen years old, she didn’t understand that all those terrible troubles the heroines in her books went through in real life
The best way to guard your heart was to trust a good man to take care of it for you.
No one knows what goes down between a woman and her man except that woman. Only thing they know is what went down with their own men.
Don’t go woman on me and tell me you don’t need a man to complete you. It’s bullshit. Woman looks like you, goddamn waste. But a woman who has the love you got to give, that’s not a waste. That’s a crying shame.
Forgiveness is beautiful and it feels good when someone gives that gift to you. But it’s one thing for someone you wronged to forgive you. It was another to forgive yourself.
Darlin’, the last time I walked into a mall was two presidents ago.” I stared at him in shock. Then I asked, “Is that even possible?” “I got a dick and I was single so, yeah, it’s possible.
That Damon Matthews,” Linda spat. “You know, take one letter out of his name and it spells ‘ damn’ as in ‘damn, that kid’s a worthless sonovabitch’.
I never dreamed any fuckin’ dream,” he whispered, and the smile faded from her face as tears filled her eyes.She understood him.”Shy-“”Didn’t dream it, saw it, waited my time, and then you gave it to me.
Compassion is often mistaken for weakness, when the fact is, there is very little that is more powerful than the courage it takes to give it.
Lonely’s a different kind of pain, it doesn’t hurt as bad as heartbreak. I preferred it and embraced it ‘cause I reckoned it was one or the other.
You don’t have to have had something to want it or need it but when you have something you liked… very much… and it is taken away, and you want it back, it can become a hunger.
When we faced Mom, we saw she was addressing Max. “We get to know each other I’ll get to hug you.” “Mom!” I snapped and Mom turned to me. “I get to do it when he doesn’t have a shirt on too. I’m calling it now,” Mom declared.
It was like the Justice League of Super Heroes but instead it was the Justice League of Hot Guys.
Heya, Arlene. What’s shakin’?” Cotton greeted.“Don’t shift some of this weight, everything,” Arlene replied.
Apparently Super Max was pretty content with taking care of half the town, such was his wonderfulness.
You should feel free to feel how you want and don’t think of what people think.
Even one voice in a wilderness of ignorance is a voice that is heard by someone.
Rule Number One in the India Savage Life Code: When in doubt or possible trouble, lie.
Food is love,” I replied.”No, babe, it ain’t. But makin’ it for the ones you love so they can brag about it is,” Take returned.
Last night you sat there singing to me ‘nothing to hide, believe what I say’ and not ten hours later you’re standin’ in front of me lyin
Never wanna leave my Justice, my home.So I bring her with me, my baby Lonesome.Don’t matter, Justice is always there,Always right there, no matter where I go.My baby Lonesome,Makin’ it so I’m never missin’ home.
Home isn’t a place.Home is anywhere, just as long as the people you love are there.
Bard eyed him like he was manure on her shoes at the same time she did things, like sharpen a wooden stake, something she knew didn’t work on him, but that was not her point, even if she was making one.
Because he tells me. All the fucking time. I’m precious to him and I know it because he shows me and he tells me. It’s beautiful. It’s real. It’s right.
I may have mentioned patience wasn’t one of my virtues. Actually, I didn’t have many virtues but patience definitely wasn’t one of them.
Even though I felt like crying, I did my very best to smile.
Shut up and kiss me, Duchess.”“Max!”“All right, I’ll kiss you.
I used to sleep the sleep of someone who knew she was loved. Now, I didn’t.
He immediately went down with a thud and I was pretty certain most of the furniture in the room jumped when he landed.
Vayoo ansha.”I shook my head and whispered, “Never. For good and always, you have lost me. Na me lapay kahLahn. Not anymore.”**
You have a cat and go on vacation, you know who to call. Though, I warn you, I do both dry and wet food. I’m not into doin’ just wet or just dry. They need a treat, but they need to keep their teeth clean. It’s important.”-TexRock Chick
We girls, we’re tough, darling. Soft on the outside but, deep down, we’re tough.
My girl, always hated frogs,” Jackie stated when she’d controlled her hilarity.“That’s right, Mom,” Feb leveled her irate eyes at her mother, “I’m a girl therefore I hate frogs. I’d get kicked out of the girl club if I didn’t.
You’re beautiful, Finnie, but by the gods you have never been more beautiful than you are right now, spread before me, wrapped in my wool and filled with me
How you feel about marrying me?” he asked in my ear.
Jealousy is an ugly emotion that makes people do some seriously whacked shit and when a woman is experiencing it, it’s worse.
My eyes went to him. “Your rule, honey. I can go put panties on.” His eyes came to me. “You do, I get the strap.
Thank you for keeping it a secret. There aren’t many of those in this tribe.
We all fall on hard times,” he said quietly, removing his fist from my chin. “It’s just lucky for you that you fell in the right direction.
May feel like you’re falling’, Tabby, but remember, I’m at the bottom ready to catch you.
The library serves as a gathering place for friends whoshare the love of books. It further serves as a resource for those who escape the pressure of everydaylife, doing it by losing themselves in the written word.
It’s my experience that a weakness understood is no weakness. If you know you have it, even if you can’t control it, you can make allowances for it. It is those who ignore or don’t understand their weaknesses who are wasted by them.
I couldn’t ignore the fact that it felt good. So. Very. Good. To be held, in bed, in the arms of a tall, strong, handsome man.
Because, no matter how old we get, we always need to believe in fairytales.
His tongue felt good, it tasted good, it was all just good. Not just good. It was better than good. I missed this. I loved kissing and, Lord, did I miss it.
Mitch—“”All right, baby, I’ll shut you up.”Then he did, his head slanting and his lips taking mine in a repeat performance of the open-mouthed, knock my socks off, rock my world, best kiss in the history of all time.
Apparently, if you become one of Satan’s Minions, as a reward, he makes you immune to cancer, heart and liver disease.