“Hope is my enemy. It’s worse than lies. It promises and it takes back. It teases and it rips my heart out.”
“Anyone who wants to hurt you has to come through me first.”
“What we need more than anything, Amy, is each other. I need you, baby. I need you alive and well, in my bed and in my life. The idea of losing you is torture, but I know you aren’t my property. You’re the woman who changed me in ways I don’t even fully understand.”
“I don't know. What if I don't want to and you do?"
" I just want you and us, baby. And when the time is right, and this hospital room isn't that time, I'll ask you to marry me properly and then take you pyramid hunting all over the world. You and me, baby. That's what I want.”
“What are you thanking me for?"
"For being you, and it doesn't mater what name anyone calls you. I love you." His lips quirk."But I like how Amy Stone sounds. I like it alot.”
“You are my other half, Amy. I have to protect you.”
“What do I have to do to convince you I’m the one you should run to, not away from? Tell me and I’ll do it.”
“He stills, and our eyes lock, his narrowing, holding mine captive. “Run to me, not from me.”
“His presence in my life is like the lighthouse in my stormy waters to a ship lost at sea.”
“His presence in my life is like the lighthouse in stormy waters to a ship lost at sea.”
“Sometimes we’re wrong when we think that we know the truth about our parents.”
“You, in the moonlight, in this library, in this dress--" His eyes rove over me, from my frothy pink skirts embroidered with dark pink roses, past the swell of my breasts, up to the creamy skin of my neck. My breath comes fast as his gaze lingers on my lips. He's barely touching me, but it feels as though he's already undressed me with his eyes.
"Its the most beautiful thing. Like a dream." His voice is hoarse and full of wonder.
"Then its my dream, too," I confess as I claim his lips with mine,”
“I want to have an assistant someday who will make freaky teens cool T-shirts so that they can do good things in style. I want to be Donna. So frickin' much.”
“There were times, Sham felt, when the captains regretted there being only two types of limb they could lose to their obsessions.”
“How bitter were
the Prozac pills
of the last
few hundred mornings”
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