Yeah, we could strap a small car to Lassiter’s back and make him run around by the pool –.
When the coffee had finished brewing, he took the pot out from under, poured the entire sugar bowl into it, and followed that up with as much of the half-and-half as he could fit in. Then he took a test sip.
Scars, though, left wounds on the inside of you, and as with skin that didn’t heal right, you still felt the rough spots from time to time.
Hollywood Expressed his inner Godzilla again” V to Z.
The great thing about family, Mary mused, was that they showed up. When it really mattered, your family, be they blood or by choice, were always where you needed them to be, even though they had busy lives and jobs and children of their own.
These were gym towels. They were supposed to be thin and mean, the terry-cloth equivalent of coyotes. When you were sweating like a pig and couldn’t feel the bottoms of your feet from exertion, you didn’t want to pat yourself down with a Pomeranian.
He wanted her nails in his back and her tongue in his mouth and her hips rocking under his until he came so hard he saw stars. Then he wanted to sleep with her in his arms afterward. And wake up and eat and make love again. And talk in the dark about things both stupid and serious – Oh, God. He was bonding with her. The bonding thing was happening.
They sat side by side in silence – because sometimes that was all you could do for someone you loved: There were paths that had to be walked alone. And that just sucked.
If you were loved, if you had people who cared about you, you could be by yourself and never feel alone. But if no one cared? You were isolated even in a crowd.
Jeez, you go rogue once and slaughter a bunch of humans after they torture your girlfriend, and suddenly you’re a leaper.
Destiny is not a straightaway. It’s cluttered with corners and all of them are dark. We make the turns we do... and find ourselves where we are.
I see you, he thought. And you are beautiful to me.
There were times in life when, as much as you wanted to fight for something, you just had to let it go.
No matter what it takes, I’m going to prove that I love you and I need you and I want you – and that those kids are yours.” With.
The past is what it is – good and bad, it’s written and unchanging. And there’s solace to be had in that.
Democracy, however, when it is truly exercised, is a stone fortress that cannot be surmounted, blown asunder, or burrowed under.
Rhage glanced over in the relative silence. “You are a genius.” “Harold Ramis is.” “I’m sorry?” “You ever see Stripes? My favorite movie of all time. I based this thing on Bill Murray’s ride.
I’ll be here waiting for you and for whoever else you love. That’s what the other side is. It’s just love.
Do you like what you see?” he said in a quiet voice.
Though she remained earthbound, the freedom in her soul made her fly.