Possessiveness was hot. A man who staked his claim, marked his territory. It wasn’t about lack of trust. It was about belonging to someone. It was about them having pride in that and wanting everyone to know it, especially you.
You back a man in a corner, you gotta bear the consequences when he does what he has to do to fight his way out.
Well, maybe you should tell me before you get angry at me for doing something I didn’t know you didn’t want me to do. And maybe when you get angry you’ll find a way to let me know you are without being a total jerk.
I have vowed to keep you safe, to make it so you never feel fear again, to give you better, and here I stand, with you so close but still holding yourself away, because it was me who failed at giving you all those things.
Luke came out when I slid down the lever on the slice of bread. I heard him moving around but I started at the toaster as if I was certain it would animate and start dancing around like all the stuff in the Beast’s house in that Disney movie and I didn’t want to miss the show.
I was in no mood to argue. I was in the mood to go to sleep for fifty years, wake up and old maid and live out my life in a nursing home with my only excitement being Friday Night Bingo.
You’re going to take me now, Maddie, and warning, my dove, I’ll not be gentle.
A touch, only a hint, of everything. An intriguing woman does not share her secrets in any way. She does not speak of them, she does not give them away through her manner and she definitely does not make the mistake of giving them away through her appearance.
Hate no one, for hate is a starving beast who has just found its prey.
Hate is not a feeling toward another, but a feeling of defeat by another.
It’s never too late to reach for happiness and no matter what life has done to you, it’s never too late to find it.
I’m not going to work in a place where I can’t eat donuts.
I can’t function around a man if I know his ability to give pleasure.
Then she declared loudly, “Smoke break!” and everyone’s eyes came to us, some of them shocked seeing as these days you could light up a doobie and no one would blink but if you lit up a smoke, you courted being publicly stoned to death.
Thank you for keeping it a secret. There aren’t many of those in this tribe.
Rule Number One in the India Savage Life Code: When in doubt or possible trouble, lie.
Seriously, I don’t care if feminists hunt me down and burn me at the stake, that man crooked his finger at me, I’d follow him into a bank and rob it at his side.
You got one life, never use it just to breathe.
Even though I felt like crying, I did my very best to smile.
You lose anyone, there’s no replacing them. What you need to get is that’s precious, you get to keep that, you don’t want to replace it. That doesn’t mean you can’t find something else just as good.