And, lastly, apparently the new intel was me, who had a face that could launch a thousand hard-ons. Not a flowery compliment, but still, it said it all even if it pulled no punches.
I like everything about you, honey. Everything. Lived in black and white seems like all my life. Never noticed. Not until you colored my world.
I feel bitterness is a religion and the people who practice it are the most vehement missionaries there are. There is great strength, beauty and peace in letting things go and practicing forgiveness.
Butterfly, advice. Don’t start playin’ new games when you’re already winnin’ the one you’re in.
But we don’t live in a perfect world, Knight.” “I do, certain times a day, those bein’ when I walk over that threshold,” he stated, jerking his chin toward the front door.
Don’t want your hand,” he stated. Damn. “Want your mouth.” Yay!
Then, his eyes golden and shimmering, he said quietly, “Come to your wolf, baby doll.
Wonderful. Visions of Aunt Bette McGyvering an explosive with that exposed nail, some lint from her pocket and spit filled my head just as the door opened quickly and shut just as quickly.
You get near my tigress, she’ll sink her claws in you and you’ll be looking at your innards spilling out before your last breath escapes your body.
No woman should ever make the mistake of sharing any of her secrets with a man who does not prove he deserves to have them.
I had momentarily forgotten that men, on the whole, weren’t really fond of shopping, even for books. Big, bad, male vamps were probably seriously not fond of shopping.
But, my wolf, compassion is often mistaken for weakness when the fact is, there is very little that is more powerful than the courage it takes to give it. The one thing I know that’s even more powerful is the courage it takes to forge your own path, make your own mark and in doing so, make change.
There I was again. Soaring. Though, these days, I’d learned how to live with my head in the clouds. “God, I love you,” I whispered.
Oh but the gods do so love me,” I shared softly. “To give me a man who would allow his soul to be taken over by the darkness of night, for he’s a man who loves so deeply, he lost those who had his love, was cast into the shadows, and he refuses to crawl to the light.
He was the one. This motorcycle man in bed with me was the man of my dreams. I never would have guessed it would be a man like him but I knew it was.
You love your children, maybe not the same but always the same amount.
I thought it was a good question. I mean I didn’t lock myself in the Chaos Compound. I didn’t do a drive-by on my house. I just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time and unfortunately that place was my own house.
Why?” Sal clipped. “’Cause this is Frankie. She could be standin’ in a field in the middle of the day and a dead body would drop on her.
We fight.” She shook her head and the tears continued to fall. “And when we can’t fight, we learn to turn to others who’ve learned life’s lessons. Who’ve survived. Who’ll gather close and help us make it through.
That’s the reason forgiveness is divine. ‘Cause someone wrongs us, we live with that wrong right alongside them, but it’s us who has to find the strength to let them off the hook. If they work for it, ask for it, only you have the power to offer it to them so their soul can be less heavy. And the right thing to do is use that power.