romance

She was magic, a direct light__he kind that seeps through in places that didn__ exist inside him anymore. The light he thought he lost forever, but Nick realized we don__ lose the light, we absorb it, and with Olivia he wanted to absorb every small speck of it.

I try not to react, but I must fail because Gabriel turns to look at me. __he world needs both butterflies and lions. One is not better than the other. They're both beautiful and brave in their own ways.__is hand covers mine as it fiddles with the blades of grass. __va._ I look up. __ do not wish you were a lion any more than I would have wished her to be a butterfly.

I was just wondering how long we were going to pretend like we annoyed each other before we started sleeping together.

A quick and dirty whatever-it-was in the stolen minutes in the middle of the day was one thing. The quiet crackle of the fire, smell of warm bread, the home she knew was so important to him__his was something else altogether.

And sometimes when I feel that much emotion, something inside of me just snaps.

You__e wondering whether this is a good idea. Because you__e smart and you see right through me, but you can__ help but want this anyway.

I'm a poet who has lost his words." He looks across the street, but not before I catch the dull glint of shame in his eyes."Where did you lose them?" I ask, gentling my tone.He turns back to me. When he speaks, his voice is so small that I have to lean closer to hear it. "The same place I lost myself.

My favorite involves you wearing your black dominatrix boots.""What else am I wearing?""Nothing.""What are you wearing?""A hard-on and a smile.

Someone could drag me to hell, and I__ crawl back to you, Maya, for a chance to make right everything that was ever wrong between us.

I__l take your body, but I want your heart, Maya.

Writing is easy...all you have to do is sit at the typewriter and bleed. -- Ernest Hemingway

I'm a big man, sugar. When I come down on a woman, I want soft, not a bundle of sticks that I might break." - Logan

Sweetheart, I have no intention of denying you a thing.

When you are in a room with Kurtis, whether its one or a hundred he is the only person that matters.

You don__ put pressure on me to be something I__ incapable of being. You accept me exactly how I am.

And when you love someone, seeing them sad also makes you sad.

And this, my friends, is how love f*cks up your life.

I made promises. I intend to keep them.