defiant

The only thing that will ever make me fall in love is: if I fall in love.

First, the wind would rumble in the distance like an approaching river, then he would see grass bend, pressed by a great invisible hand. The dull rumble would rise in pitch to a swishing, lashing exultation, causing stalks to lie flat against the ground while the tougher branches of shrubs held themselves up and shrieked their defiance in the gusts. Then the first drops, cold and heavy, would plummet from the sky and burst on the ground.

If I choose to take the pen from God and write the story of my life without Him, I better have plenty of erasers and a whole lot of white-out. Better yet, I should invest in a good shredder.

I don't have a master. I'm not sure if I have an equal.

Life is too short to waste any amount of time on wondering what other people think about you. In the first place, if they had better things going on in their lives, they wouldn't have the time to sit around and talk about you. What's important to me is not others' opinions of me, but what's important to me is my opinion of myself.

She dressed in bohemian clothes, penned novels, panted, and yearned to roam forgotten corners of the world. She was habitually defiant and fearless, and when she felt controlled, as she often did, she could be irresistibly willfull. Mostly, she was bored silly by the vanilla sort boys who trailed her around, and by the stodgy set in Miami Beach.

Shocked at this rebuke, Sarah took a step backward. __ut I_I am the daughter of a marquess. I cannot marry either____ou are new here, so I will explain. In this land, nobility comes not from one__ fathers or a title or from the land one owns, but from one__ actions._ His voice was hard-edged, and his words seemed harsh to her. __he MacKinnon brothers are the highest nobility to those who live on the frontier__rue warriors, men who know how to fight and survive, men who put the lives of others before their own. Your family__ wealth, your title, your virtue__hey mean nothing out here. They won__ fill your belly, and they won__ keep you alive. What matters most right now is your survival.

Never apologize for correct actions.

Och, Sarah, how shall I call augh_ beautiful again unless it be the sight of you?

Congratulations, he said. "That was the stupidest thing I've ever seen." His expression was a mix of awe and disbelief. "Ever.

Back the fuck off fluffy!