We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon. In an instant age, perhaps we must relearn the ancient truth that patience, too, has its victories.
All I ever had before you was nightmares. But now I dream. Because of you.
Still amazes me that people spend more time researching a new vehicle than they do the religion they entrust their souls to.
When you can't be sure of anything else in this crapped- on world, you have to be sure of yourself.
She licked again, taking her time,even though she didn't need to; her first stroke numbed the bite site. No, this second taste was for her, not him, and there was no lying about that. "I'm starting to feel like a Tootsie Pop, here" he rasped. She couldn't contain a smile. " Yes. . . how did that old commercial go?" She licked him. "One. " She licked him again, and he moaned. "Two. " She licked him once more, and his hips came off the bed, "Three.
She turned to him, her cheeks burning red. “What is this? Vampire porn?” “Yep. ” “Oh, and this is a good one. Muffy the Vampire Layer.
He was the ultimate experiment in Nature Versus Nurture, and she imagined he must be engaged in a constant battle between what he was and what he wanted to be.
I envied women with signature hair-dos, signature perfumes, signature sign-offs. Novelists who tell Vogue Magazine: “I can’t live without my Smythson notebook, Pomegranate Noir cologne by Jo Malone and Frette sheets”. In the grip of madness, materialism begins to look like an admirable belief system.
Cleverness is a quality a man likes to have in his wife as long as she is some distance away from him. Up close, he'll take kindness any day of the week, if there's nothing more alluring to be had.
I'd rather have a girl exposed to me than 25 women in prom dresses vying for a stranger.
Humor is a terrific tool for explaining things, especially when what you're explaining is frightening or dull and complicated.