He tends to go for girls who are-Shelby, honey? Put your hands over your ears for just a sec.” Back into the phone he said, “He likes the real slutty ones. Ow!” he yelled when he received a whop to the back of the head.
Muriel, you’re not a convenience. I’d walk across a mile of cut glass in my bare feet to hold your hand and talk to you for one hour. You’re everything to me. – Walt.
Don’t make love to your problems – they’ll never give you back the satisfaction you give them.
Paul went to his room, gathered clean clothes and headed down the hall to the shower. He made it quick, but clean. He shaved. Then he thought, I am shaving – why? To be smooth cheeked when I pass out?
But, Marcie had reminded herself, I don’t know the weight of anyone else’s burdens – only my own. She didn’t judge. She didn’t feel smart or strong enough to judge.
God understands everything. And even He made a mistake or two. Look at the size of avocado seeds – way too big. And pomegranates? Too many seeds. What a waist of fruit!
Death. I thought it would be gardens, perhaps. Beautiful countryside with cool streams. It’s only blackness. Nervous and dark. There is no rest there.
The one thing she had learned was that to be tolerated and endured was less dignified than being hated. And it was infinitely more painful.
My husband was an Air Force pilot man years ago and recently an Air Force wife thanked me for my service! I laughed and said, ‘No, I wasn’t in the Air Force, my husband was!’ And she smiled and said, ‘If he served, you served. And thank you.’
We were far more civilized in our divorce than we had ever been in marriage. It seemed we’d finally found something we could do together amicably.
My father, who suffered from hardening of the arteries, was diagnosed as having that tragic thief of the mind, Alzheimer’s.
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I’m as interested in the families and communities that surround our soldiers.
I can’t find a person without some link to the armed forces!
Struggling is mandatory. Suffering is optional.
Ignorance might be bliss, but it’s irresponsible and dangerous too.
My best advice is this – by the time you meet your Maker, and may it be a long, long time from now, I hope you can close your eyes on a life where you did your damn best and tried your damn hardest. It’s not winning that’s really winning. It’s never giving up.
People belong wherever they feel good. It can be a lot of different places. For a lot of different reasons.
Why don’t I give her a bottle while you eat. I brought coffee.” “Really, I didn’t know they made men like you,” she said, letting him follow her into the kitchen. When he put down the plate and thermos, she handed over the baby and tested the bottle. “You seem very comfortable with a newborn. For a man. A man with some nieces in Sacramento.” He just smiled at her. She passed him the bottle and got out two coffee mugs.
If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything. – Mark Twain.