Susan Elizabeth Phillips · 400 pages
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“The engine roared to life. He ran toward her. She shot our of her parking space. He rushed to the side of her car. "Stop it, Kristy! You're overreacting! Let's talk about this." That was when she did the unthinkable. She rolled down the window, thrust out her hand, and gave Reverend Ethan Bonner the bird.”
“Who needs food?
Your smile alone is enough to nourish me for weeks.”
“Damn it! Are you so stupid you don't know what I'm going to do to you?"
Her eyes bore into his without flinching.
"Are you so stupid you haven't figured out yet that it doesn't matter?”
“Before you lost your mind, how did you make a living?"
"I was a hitman for the Mafia. Are you done crying yet?"
"I wasn't crying! And I wish you were a hitman because, if I had money, I'd hire you right this minute to knock yourself off.”
“He wanted to protect her and
fuck her and comfort her and destroy her all at once. The chaos of his emotions coiled around his pain,
deepening the agony.”
“She reached into the pocket of her dress and threw the small stack of bills at him. They fluttered to the ground like broken dreams. "I hope you choke on
every penny."
"Pick that up."
She drew back her arm and slapped him as hard as she could.”
“Chip, I know you don't understand this, but I'd take it as a personal favor if you'd stop trying to marry your mother off to my brothers.”
“If the way you've been treating me is a mark of fondness, maybe you'd better take a fresh look at your interpersonal communication skills.”
“If I eat another hamburger, I'll start to moo. - Rachel”
“Soy más fuerte de lo que parezco y trabajaré más duro que cualquier hombre. Además, le ofrezco mi asesoramiento psiquiátrico para ese desorden de personalidad tan problemático que tiene.”
“Rachel nem akarta, hogy a férfi azt higgye róla, szemérmes, különösen, hogy annyira
kívánta, s tudta, hogy meg kell mondania neki. - Gabe, ma reggel megjött.
A férfi felé fordult és üres tekintettel nézett rá.
- A ciklusom - magyarázta. Amikor Gabe cseppet sem vágott értelmesebb képet, eszébe
jutott a férfi hivatása. - Tüzelek.”
“Anybody ever tell you that you’ve got a smart mouth?” “It goes with my brain.”
“... in his chest, his heart seeped. It wasn`t blood that escaped - that had been shed long ago - but a thick, bile-like fluid that ran through veins that had become rivers of pain carrying a bottomless cargo of grief.”
“I’m stronger than I look, and I’ll work harder than any man you’ll ever find. Besides, I can also provide psychiatric counseling for that troublesome personality disorder of yours.” The”
“Who needs food? Your smile alone is enough to nourish me for weeks.” He”
“And I wish you were a hit man because, if I had the money, I’d hire you right this minute to knock yourself off.”
“You’ve been in my life for so long that I stopped thinking about you as someone who existed separately from me. You were just part of me. And then all these changes happened, and you decided to leave me, and I’ve been going crazy ever since.”
“You let us out right now, o r Gabe is going to shoot you with his gun! I mean it! He’s got a million guns, and he’ll shoot you, then cut you up with a knife!”
“The idea that a man this hopeless about his finances was allowed to roam free in the world was terrifying. She”
“Going to another country doesn’t make any difference. I’ve tried all that. You can’t get away from yourself by moving from one place to another. There’s nothing to that.”
“Is my paranoia getting completely out of hand, or are you mongoloids really talking about me?”
“You're beautiful in battle," said Dimitri. His cold voice carried to me clearly, even above the roar of combat. "Like an avenging angel come to deliver the justice of heaven."
"Funny," I said, shifting my hold on the stake. "That is kind of why I'm here."
"Angels fall, Rose.”
“Once you are real you can't become unreal again. It lasts for always.”
“There is a loneliness that can be rocked. Arms crossed, knees drawn up, holding, holding on, this motion, unlike a ship's, smooths and contains the rocker. It's an inside kind--wrapped tight like skin. Then there is the loneliness that roams. No rocking can hold it down. It is alive. On its own. A dry and spreading thing that makes the sound of one's own feet going seem to come from a far-off place.”
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