Why are you always smiling? What do you know?
Nothing ever seems too bad, too hard or too sad when you’ve got a Christmas tree in the living room. All those presents under it, all that anticipation. Just a way of saying there’s always light and hope in the world.
Didn’t people consider what could happen if armies of farm animals united in revolt?
I will give you more pain than you can imagine. Your brains will leak out of your ears, and your bowels out of your ass. I will cause that to happen without leaving a mark, and every cop here will swear you died of natural causes.
When you find nothing... it means you’re eliminating what surrounds the something.
You saved me, Eve.” He watched her blink in absolute shock. “What you are, what I feel for you, what we are together saved me.” He kept his eyes on hers as he kissed her.
What did she say?” Eve asked when they got into the car. “Here’s love, she said, to hold until next we meet and I give you more.
He was heading over the line when he strutted in here thinking he could rattle his federal balls at me.
No one, she tought as the breath trembled through her lips, no one had ever looked at her as he did. In a way that told her she was the center.
I’m not trying to box you in. I’m just trying to live with you.
Don’t make threats unless you intend to follow through.
I don’t get it. Scratch, bite, squeal, slap. Why do women fight like that? They’ve got fists. It’s embarrassing to our entire gender.
I get double credits. First I get the satisfaction credit of being hit on by the sexy DOT inspector, and second I get loyal and true credit for turning him down because I have my personal sexy nerd.
You’re not perfect, and that makes you just exactly right.
Real love’s beautiful, elusive, and mean as a snake.
It’s a damn small world when it sucks.
After a while, Eve thought, marriage turned walls into clear glass so both of you could see right through each other.
Your view on this is narrow. That’s how you’re built.” It didn’t feel narrow to her. It felt right. “Marriage is a promise. That’s one of the ways you talked me into it. If you break one part of the promise, it’s going to crack other parts.
The man is a genius, and geniuses don’t have to abide by the same rules as the rest of the world.
She woke to the scent of coffee, and wondered if that was how mornings in heaven smelled.