sweet

My whole life had split in two: Smith and not Smith. I liked the Smith parts of it so much better.

And I can no more stop worrying about you than I can stop myself from breathing.

Percy (to Annabeth): If I was going to pick one person in the world to reattach my head, I'd pick you.Silena: Awww . . . Percy, that is so sweet!Annabeth: Shut up, Silena.

That sounded sweet enough to almost be intelligent, but it was chauvinistic as hell.

Are you both drunk?_ I headed up the ladder and propped myself on a swing with no problem. __orrection, dear brother._ Hex held one finger in the air. __e__e exquisitely tipsy.

Nothing is bigger than art.

Are you both drunk?_ I headed up the ladder and propped myself on a swing with no problem. __orrection, dear brother._ Hex held one finger in the air. __e__e exquisitely tipsy. There__ a difference. Drunkenness is done at a shady bar, in ugly clothing, surrounded by the mundane. While exquisite tipsiness is performed in an art setting among geniuses.___hanks so much for the distinction._ I rolled my eyes.

_I craved to stroke that delicate skin and run my fingers through her tresses as she moaned with hunger. I would grip a thick section of her hair in my hands, wrap it around my fingers, and take her from behind. And she would scream my name.

Art isn__ a means for income when it comes to Hex. He would do it if he was trapped on an island by himself or the richest man in the world. For him, art is like breathing. He just has to do it.

I__e been waiting for you for a very long time._ I raised her off my shoulders, lowered her to me, and guided her legs around my waist. __hy did you take so long to come to me?___f I knew you were here, I would__e come so much sooner.

My love, one day, you are going to be my wife.

He__ not going to stop this. He__ really going to kill himself.

I didn__ understand what was supposed to happen from our swinging, but the need to make her happy bloomed in my chest.

You're going to ruin me.

We all came to watch her die.

Promise me you won__ run off in fear.

When I arrived at her door, with the weight of the entire world on my shoulders, she drew me into her arms and eased all my stress away. She comforted and spent time with me when she didn__ have to. She didn__ know me at all, had no idea who I was or what I intended for her, whether passion or pain. But her heart led her forward, that beautiful heart I wanted for myself. So when the moment came to kiss her, as we stood in the water at the beach, I seized it like a desperate man. I was a mad one on the edge of insanity and she was the tonic I needed.

I couldn't stay away from her.