Maybe these people lived here in warmer times and left when it got too cold.” “But where did they go?” She shrugs. “Your guess is as good as mine.
You must accept that there will be things in life that are not good, but they are outweighed by the good things. If there were no bad, we would not appreciate the wonders that life has to offer. There will be fear, but you must not let it win.
What if one trips and falls and lands upon my cock? Can I mate her if she is on me?
Ah, my Veronica,” he murmurs, voice low and just a little bit rumbly with the force of his cootie. “You do not have to be special to everyone. Just to me.
MADDIE: Nobody’s got it easy right now. We just have to suck it up.
The smile that blooms across his face is worth it, though. He’s looking at me with such approval that I feel like I already conquered one of my demons. “Very brave,” he tells me.
Trickery,” I nod. “Wait until her guard is down and then claim her.” I wag a finger at Angie. “Very, very clever.” She just sighs. “I’m sorry I even tried to help.
She laughs, her eyes bright. “What am I, chopped liver?” Liver? Of course she is liver. The organ meats are the tenderest and most prized, quickly snatched up after a hunt. “Yes, of course you are.” Her face falls. “Oh.
Strength does not always mean fists, my heart. Sometimes it means waking up to endure another day.
Did you just try to kill me? Kef, that’s cute.
I realized the only person standing in the way of what I wanted was me. You can choose to sit back and let things happen, or you can do something about it.
Are they insane? I’m small, even by human standards, and underfed. What am I supposed to do? Ask it nicely to stop burning cities to ash? Hit its nose with a rolled-up newspaper when it misbehaves? Hysterical laughter bubbles in my throat.
I’m not fixed. I’m as broken as ever. But you get better at hiding it. And you get better at being broken.
You smell bad,” Aron says. “When was the last time you bathed?
Are you finished vomiting excuses at me?
It is Shail that I adore. I want all of Shail, not pieces of someone else.
Then I shall keep going endlessly,” he murmurs. “Until the end of time.
And then I want to weep. To think I haven’t dressed properly for alien abduction.
Great, I have a yeti stalker. Totally what every girl dreams of.
He reaches for my hand, rubbing my fingers. That small gesture is enough to make my heart melt all over again. Sometimes it’s the small things that are everything.