contemporary

He__ never be the kind of man she deserved, whole and strong, not physically and mentally crippled.

He reached for her hand. She jerked her head up, eyes wide. __tay,_ he repeated. __ could use the company._ She hesitated. A rueful smile pulled at his lips. __ promise I won__ try to kiss you again_tonight.

We need to get you laid."Despite the fact she couldn't see my face, my brow furrowed. "How is that going to help?""Rebound sex is exactly what you need right now, sweaty, dirty, work-your-frustration-out sex. In fact, I have the perfect guy in mind_"I jolted up quickly at the sound of a firm tapping. I looked over at the window to see Kacey's sun kissed face, his shades resting at the edge of his long nose, baby blue eyes fixed on me.I placed my hand over my thumping heart. "You ass.""Bitch?""Not you, Jayne." I climbed off my bed. "Kay and Ty are here.""Speak of the devil, and his sexy ass will most definitely appear.

The war had changed him, inside and out, in ways he could never have fathomed.

Hot. I__e been upgraded to hot.No one has ever called me hot. Cute? Yes. Adorable? yes, often and it makes me want to punch them. I didn__ know short girls could even be hot. I thought I__ been permanently relegated to elfin-pixie-child status.

Before my mom decided she was a lesbian, I thought lesbians were all these really nice, earthy, crunchy, let's smother you with our twenty extra pounds of lady love and fight the power people.

When you kissed me_I felt special.I never really felt like I deserved it.That isn__ your fault. That was me.When I looked down the aisle on our wedding day and you weren__ there, my first thought, as awful as this sounds, wasn__, __here is he?_ it was, __h, it figures.

Happiness comes in many forms. Whether through a passion for something or someone, it makes no difference. The results are the same: you live.

It was all in the means of expressing himself without anyone having to ever understand it.

You want something, you go after it, and you hang on to it

Fact: Cells are constantly dying and new ones are taking their placeFact: After seven years have gone by, every cell in my body has died and a new one has taken its place.Do the math. That means that every seven years, I'm a totally new me. not one of the old cells remains. Twice, I've had a total makeover

No, this was Philly. Drunks here boo Santa and get in more trouble than a dog with an Easter basket, and like the dog, they usually end up either sick or dead. Ah yes, another lovely eve in the big city.

I cannot believe I have been duped, not once but twice. My three years gaining a degree in psychology was clearly a waste of time. I might as well have studied Klingon.

No good deed goes unpunished - Oscar Wilde

It's sad that bad things have to happen in order for us to stop and look around.

Fall in love with you? How could I fall in love with you when I loved you with every breath, every heartbeat, every lash of the fucking whip? When you invaded my dreams, my hallucinations. I can__ stop loving you, bella. I__e tried. God help me, I__e tried.

From my new release, Cry for Me.This is Bryen talking."Stop it, T! I knew; my God I predicted you would do this! Start blaming yourself for the sins of my sick brother. He's left a stench of rottenness from here to Illinois!

The world is full of things put off for the wrong reasons, which can suddenly become impossible without any warning. They hang in the air like ghosts, their mouths sewn up forever. They will never be able to speak, but if it was you who put them there, you will always be forced to see them.