romance

Secretly," he mumbled in a quieter tone, "I've always wanted to know what it would feel like to lust, to hunger for something different. But I've never been able to imagine ever experiencing that kind of desire.

I__e never been on a bike,_ I say. __ mean, I__e been on a bike but not a motorcycle.___nd why is that?_ he asks. __ugs. They get in your mouth, right? That__ just gross._ Chris makes a face.__f you ride around with your mouth hanging open, I assume that could be a possibility.

In one blow, that dream died as they dragged me__im__way. A tear slid down my cheek. I wasn't the only one mourning the loss of a dream. "I'm sorry." 'You're not alone, I just wanted you to know that. And someday, when I have my powers back and am free, I'm going to do some serious damage to the people who've hurt you.

I thought you were going to_ you__e standing under my window. Aren__ you supposed to climb up here or something?___y ladder__ at home.

Heal my heart and make it clean, open up my eyes to the things unseen, show me how to love like you have loved me.

You ask me why I__ nice to you,_ he said. __hy, why, why. But you don__ ask me stuff that matters. Who I am or where I been. What I see when I look at you. What I want.

And I know what people say about not listening to insults or how you should let stuff roll off you, but it__ not that easy.

I'm afraid." Olivia to Caleb"Afraid of what?" Caleb."Of how vulnerable you make me." Olivia."I make you vulnerable because you love me. That's the price you pay for love, baby girl." Caleb.

He kept quite for a minute or so but it felt like an hour. __hat sounds like either you know a lot of diseased and ill people or they__e just ill or dead because of you.___ know,_ I said and felt like a monster.

I don__ think I could have picked a worse guy to be my soul mate.

I just held her hand and tried to imagine the world without us and for about one second I was a good enough person to hope she died so she would never know that I was going, too. But then I wanted more time so we could fall in love.

The dark held new meaning for me now. There was a whole other world out there that I was just beginning to discover... A world that had once been only farce was now very real". -Abby Sullivan; Redemption

My dear lady, you have no idea just how scandalous I can be. ~Peter Viktor von Strassenberg, 1905

I leaned down and looked at his handsome face. I wanted to kiss him in a way that would remain soft and true on his lips, all the while help him from escaping the overwhelming sense of sadnes that he felt. I pressed forward and kissed him, tasting the saltiness of fish against his lips, and the disappointment that he held so very deeply inside. I kissed him long and wide, yet limp and yielding, pulling myself away from reality to only drown in the fantasy of our love. I touched his mouth in such a loving way, that not even his incapability to reach into my soul, could tear us away from exchanging such romance. He immediately gave into the kiss, his sadness slowly giving way to the moment that we so intimately shared. It amazed me what a merman could do, even when flowing tears streamed down his face. Through the bridge of kissing, I had healed him, and he had healed me in return.

He gave a hard smile and the oxygen in my lungs evaporated. __eboth know I__ not a gentleman.___eah. Okay, let me out. I__ tired.___here__ something else,_ he said, and I groaned.__hat now?___his._ He stepped closer to me, so close that the containers weresandwiched between us. His eyeslooked down into mine, intent and golden, like a lion.__h, no, you don__!_ I hissed, dropping everything. I pushed hardagainst his chest; it was like shovinga tree.__es,_ he said very softly, leaning down. __es, I do.

What a lovely display of personhood. He's like a good book cover that grabs your gaze. Read me. I'm fun but smart. You won't be able to put me down.

Think of me that way," he continued. A slight shimmer glinted acrosse his eyes. "In a sense, I'm giving my life for those...I care about. A sacrifice you might say.

I was about to sit down when Kyle__ hand wrapped around my left wrist lightly and pulled up my arm. The suddenness of his touch was startling. I looked at him, confused, and saw fire in his eyes__aw anger I didn__ understand. His eyes looked up at me and penetrated mine.