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If someone had asked, How does this compare to kissing Kennedy? I would have answered, "Who?"
He laughed, and the sound reduced the pain of every sore place on my body to the dullest ache.
Alcohol removes inhibitions. It doesn't trigger criminal violence where there was none before.
But even if you have what everyone else wants- if it isn't what you want, it isn't what you want
"Choosing to be with you, isn't a difficult decision, Jacqueline"... "It's easy. Incredibly easy."
He stared down at me, and i examined his beautiful eyes up close, something i'd never tire of doing.
I’ve come to ask how you do it. How you feel what I know you’re feeling and then walk away like that.
Testing her sexuality, she thinks she's caught a beautiful fish, when in reality, she's netted a shark.
Ugh! Erin. You have a one-track mind." She smiled deviously. "I prefer to think of it as target-driven.
I watched him pull his t-shirt over his head. I could put hin on replay doing that and watch it all day.
As for being somewhere you're not supposed to be - maybe you're here for a reason, or there is no reason.
He was in a slow-motion mood-one of my favorites, though it meant i'd be driven crazy before we were done.
I'm trying to protect you. From myself. I don't do..." he swung a finger back and forth between us"...this.
I'm a hopeful romantic who adores novels with happy endings, because there are enough sad endings in real life.
Not stupid. Overly trusting, maybe, but that reflects on his lack of trustworthiness, not on your intelligence.
I don't know why it's so hard for me to say those three words. Most guys throw it around like breath, like bait.
That macho protective bullshit is just some asshat man pissing on his territory so the other dogs will stay away.
The truth was, he now belonged only to my past, and it was time I begin to accept it, as much as it hurt to do so.
Whenever I appeared to have won an argument, Mom would say something like, 'Even broken clocks are right twice a day.
I tilt her chin up and bend my face to hers, silently praising every woman who's had a hand in making her who she is.
I thought about texting Lucas, but what would i say? That I'd tossed and turned all night, thinking of his hands on me?
I breathed him in, closing my mouth tight and inhaling the scent of him through my nose. I felt sheltered by him. Safe.
As we lay in the semi-dark hours later, we faced each other, sharing his pillow. I'd never felt more connected to anyone.
Now don't laugh 'cause I just might be...the soft curve in your hardline. (from the song "Hardliners" by Holcombe Waller)
But just because you’re strong and resilient doesn’t mean you never need someone to be there for you, to take care of you.
That's how they say it: He loves you in his own way. Well, what about my way? What if I need for him to love me in my way?
Love is not the absence of logic but logic examined and recalculated heated and curved to fit inside the contours of the heart.
I suppose love is never a sure thing, no matter what words are spoken. Love requires a leap of faith into the abyss, every time.
But why?" "You heard the pay, right? And also, to be near you." Thumbing a tear from my cheek, he added, "Mostly, to be near you.
She shuddered. “What is it with slobbery kissers? Are they trying to drown us in spit? I mean, Jesus, swallow every now and then.
Few of us can actually change the world. We can only change ourselves. But if enough people took that to heart, the world would change.
I try to be rational and suppress the hope that this is for real, but hope has a way of closing its eyes to reason and it just keeps growing.
Alarmed, I realized what my visceral reaction implied: jealousy. Over a guy I barely knew, with whom I’d exchanged more saliva than sentences.
I say I don't believe in love, but that's not really true - love is just the name of an emotion. It's like on steroids. It's lust with ethics.
Say stop, whenever you want to stop. Understand?" I nodded. "Do you want to stop now?" My head moved back and forth to the pillow. "Thank God.
I was sure you 'd dropped the class, which made me selfishly ecstatic. Without even knowing i was doing it, i started looking for you on campus.
But I'll say this, if what looks like the facts of the matter are conflicting with your feelings, then you need more information before deciding
That’s what faith is, right?’ he says. ‘Believing in what can’t be known? Fall into my arms, Dori. I’ll catch you, every time, and I won’t let go.
"You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl. That's part of the job description, Mr. Maxfield."
He took one of my hands in his, and I brought the other to his face, wondering how his eyes could look like chipped ice and still warm me to my core.
Over the past three years, we'd become each other's habit. And though he'd broken his habit of me when he walked away, I'd not broken my habit of him.
I was so afraid of wanting too much that I couldn't trust her handing me a shot at getting it. I don't want to be that senselessly fearful ever again.
They call it 'falling in love' because it's less like stepping and more like tripping. Tripping is the part where you're still trying to remain upright
And then she told me she didn’t want someone who needed her in order to be a better guy. She wanted someone who was better by himself, with or without her.
What will you do with them?" "Redo them in charcoal, probably." "And then?" "Tack them to my bedroom wall." Bedroom wall? "Who wouldn't want to wake up to this?
Really, he could have just punched me in the stomach, because my brain refused to comprehend the words he was saying. A physical assault, it might have understood.
His hands reached for me, gripping my hipbones and pulling me forward. he stared down at me, his voice low. "There are some things I will make time for, Jacqueline.
She's the ulimate heroine, strong-willed and independent, intelligent, loyal, but at the same time, she's not flawless, she's not above mistakes, or falling in love.
I've changed since I've known you. Not because you made me into someone else - but because you showed me a path I'd never paid attention to, and I chose to follow it.
When you find yourself about to say something that crosses a line, something that could cause irreparable harm, sometimes the best you can do is just not say that thing.