romance-novels

Would you like some sacred chocolate?' a girl asked, appearing suddenly at Lara's side. 'They've very special chocolates,' she said, pushing a plate of the goods in Lara's direction. 'They're raw and sweetened with Stevia.'Stevia, huh? Lara grabbed a chocolate truffle and popped it into her mouth, winking at the girl. She hoped the 'stevia' would kick in soon, because frankly, it looked like these women were having a better time than she'd had in ages.

He said they've literally set up a camp across the street from the hotel and they have signs and bullhorns and the kind of Christian attitude that makes God puke.

You__ be impatient and that__ understandable, but if you were making too much noise, I__ find something better for that big sweet mouth to do.

I understand the, um, difficulty the French expatriates might have, especially after projects in Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia. My heart goes out to you all._ Katrina wished she could control that stupid smile that was aching to spread on her face as Luc Gautier became bright red. __ut this is Chennai . . . South India. Not even your largest glass manufacturing facility with 1,000-tonne capacity per day will save you from being slapped.

I want to be the star in your diary" -Shawn, Fade to White

He looked like every glossy frat boy in every nerd movie ever made, like every popular town boy who__ ever looked right through her in high school, like every rotten rich kid who__ ever belonged where she hadn__.My mama warned me about guys like you.He turned to her as if he__ heard her and took off his sunglasses, and she went down the steps to meet him, wiping her sweaty palms on her dust-smeared khaki shorts. __i, I__ Sophie Dempsey,_ she said, flashing the Dempsey gotta-love-me grin as she held out her hot, grimy hand, and after a moment he took it.His hand was clean and cool and dry, and her heart pounded harder as she looked into his remote, gray eyes.__ello, Sophie Dempsey,_ her worst nightmare said. __elcome to Temptation.

love either happens or it doesn't; there is no twice, thrice or more to it; it just happens once, only once.

Do you have one where you__e riding a horse or a camel? Or sitting on a rocket ship? Those are always wildly popular with men looking for sex.__INGLE-MINDED

Unlike written words which can mend those leaving the tip of your tongue never bend.

When you really let people see you, Amelia__ll of you, not just the snow-obsessed reporter__t__ impossible to look away.

Sometimes believing is a matter of deciding. Deciding who you__e going to trust and what you know about who you trust.

Our lover is the sun, and we the stars forever floating in their glow. We push and push, yearning for our sun's rays to reach out and touch us for just a moment in time_ one second-glance to warm our spirits and soothe our aching hearts.

When I am alone with God I see that God is really all I have. All that matters. All that will last. At these times I realize that the magnitude of what I have is incomprehensible. Usually I cry for the sheer joy of it. Not tears of defeat, but rather tears of gratitude.

She knew with chilling and absolute certainty she was next.

I Write books for the little girl in the adult woman who some man told she was not good enough. Let us dismantle the notion that a woman cannot be free with her sexuality or that she needs a man to make her complete. This one is for the little girls with hearts on their sleeves.

Confession time: I doubt I would ever have picked up one of Marjorie__ books, had I not met her in person. The reason is they__e categorized as Romances, which is where they are shelved in bookstores. Though I have no justification for avoiding it, the romance section is an area in bookstores I seldom wander into. Her novels also have traditional-looking romance book covers, which are occasionally a bit off-putting to us mighty manly men. Then again, who knows? I don__ carry many biases where good storytelling is concerned. I__ willing to find it anywhere, as too many of my friends will attest, when I try to drag them to wonderful movies that they aren__ eager to go to, simply because they fall under the chick-flick rubric. So, in any case, I__ glad I did meet Marjorie Liu in person, because it would have been a shame to miss out on the work of an author this talented due to whatever degree of cultural prejudices I might still possess. I trust you who read this won__ make the same mistake.

If I Believe in the Wish, I must believe I can loose it

Sometimes this was much harder than trying to get an alligator in a suitcase.