Don’t you understand? The depth of what I feel for you? I’m not just crazy for you, I’m out of my mind, out of my depth, love. You are my life – to leave you would be like leaving a part of myself.
As burns this saint, so burns my soul. I enter alive, and I will have to get out dead.
Our story wasn’t beautiful. It was filled with obliterating pain. But the thing with life is this: pain doesn’t last forever. There will always be a gentle breeze to soothe away the sting, and you may just find that you’re a little bit stronger than before, a little braver, and a lot more willing to live life as it should be lived. Fearlessly.
Sometimes a person does what he has to do, to protect those he values the most.
And I swore that I’d take all that pain – the pain she’d been carrying alone – and carry it for her.
He hated singing other people’s songs. But he was singing some of my favorites...
Jason closed his eye and winced. “Why is this weekend not ending?” “Because the universe hates you, and you agreed to marry a bloodsucking wannabe Real Housewife of New York, who would have used her nails as a way to kill you so we’d all end up on Dateline – crying.
I’m not backing out of the fight. I’m just choosing not to participate in it, especially when I know I don’t deserve to even participate, let alone win.
I knew I wanted you. I knew I wanted to marry you. I knew I wanted to spend my life watching that smile, gazing into those eyes.
I want this. I want you. Don’t tell me I can’t have you.
I’d refused to feel because I’d refused to go down without a fight. I was going to finish what the De Langes started, and they were all going to die.
Big money always equals big messes that you’ll eventually be blamed for. They offer you a lot of money because what idiot says no to something like fifty grand? But trust me, it’s rare for a new associate to be able to spend all that money – especially when he’s dead. You’ll be collateral damage. And I hate collateral damage.
The thing about second chances”, Mom interrupted, laying a hand on my arm “is we always walk into them assuming we’ll feel better, when nine times out of ten things get worse before the ever get better.
Life is dangerous, but just because we do what we do doesn’t mean we’re to live our lives in constant fear that something’s going to happen. So when you start to feel that way, like your heart’s going to explode from the intensity of the situation – use that adrenaline, channel it toward adventure.
Life is over in a blink of an eye – so why waste your time being anything but happy that you’ve been given another day to live?
I’d keep you if you weren’t already being fought over and owned.” “I’m not a pet.” “Believe me when I say I treat my pets very well,” he said in a low voice. “No complaints. Ever.
And then, the devil himself appeared at the door, sans shirt to cover his ridiculously cut body. Lucas smirked. “Morning. Was it as good for you as it was for me?
If you have a heart – I guarantee – there’s someone out there who wants it. Who’s searching for it. Who dreams about it.
But, sometimes in life, things don’t end how we want them to. Sometimes, what we want to happen and what has to happen are two very different things.
She has a name,” I teased. Not that I actually remembered it. But in my defense, while her lips were wrapped around me, her head was blocking the view of her name tag. See? Not my fault.