You’re well and truly hooked, Gallagher, he thought, and decided he rather enjoyed the sensation.
She started to speak, to ask politely for a glass of white wine. Then he smiled, a slow, lazy curving of lips that inexplicably set her insides a fluttering and turned her mind into a buzzing mess of static.
Knowledge, and truth, save us from chaos.” His tone was quiet, reasonable. And made her want to bite him. “Tempering them with compassion and tolerance makes us human. Without those things, fanatics feed on fear and ignorance.
Obviously at wit’s end, he scrubbed his hands over his face. “Doesn’t your breed stop having birthdays at forty?” “We may stop counting, Dr. Carnegie, but that doesn’t mean we don’t expect an appropriate gift on the occasion.
If I were writing a book I’d talk about it all the time, to everyone. People would start to avoid me, so I’d seek out complete strangers and talk about it until they, too, avoided me.
He thought back to his early twenties when he’d routinely looked for ways to meet women. He should’ve rented a puppy.
The question rolled around in Vanessa’s mind as she drove down Main Street. The sleepy town of Hyattown had changed very little in twelve years. It was still tucked in the foothills of Maryland’s Blue Ridge Mountains, surrounded by rolling farmland and thick woods. Apple orchards and dairy cows encroached as close as the town limits, and here, inside those limits, there were no stoplights, no office buildings, no hum of traffic.
The words weren’t so important, Aidan thought. It was just so soothing to listen to her.
There are always monsters,” the old man replied. “Just as there are always men who will join them, and men who will fight them.
He’d always believed in her. They’d believed in each other. He’d been her rock, in a very real way. The rock that had given her a solid base to build on after a childhood of upheaval and discontent. Then.
Tragedy doesn’t necessarily change us. More often, I think, it just brings out more of who we are – or were – all along.
She’s everything I’m not. I’m comfortable with who I am, what I am, but when you come up against someone like that, it’s a kick-in-the-butt reminder of what you’re never going to be, never going to have. I don’t like feeling inadequate or stupid.
People who say not to speak ill of the dead just don’t have the spine to say what they think.” “You’ve.
I sing of brooks, of blossoms, birds, and bowers; Of April, May, of June, and July flowers. I sing of Maypoles, Hock-carts, wassails, wakes, Of bridegrooms, brides, and of their bridal cakes. – ROBERT HERRICK.
Damn skippy.” “Who is Skippy? Why are you mad at him?” “It’s an expression. Like bet your ass.” “People are always betting their asses. Language is fun.
As far as she could see, the nuns must be full of impure thoughts or else they wouldn’t be so sure everyone else had them.
He felt as if he’d tumbled off a cliff and fallen hard on his heart. Now his heart was swollen, exposed. And it was hers.
She didn’t like to be read so easily but she couldn’t help respecting someone who could.
I know you... I know if you love him there’s something in him that makes him worthy of it.
There were only two men in her life she had ever really loved. It seemed neither of them could want her as she needed them to want her.