Lisa Unger
It's strange how memory gets twisted and pulled like taffy in its retelling, how a single event can mean something different to everyone present.Collection: Memories
I loved him so much. It didn't change all the reasons we couldn't be together, but it kept me returning to his body, kept my skin seeking his skin over and over again in the sad dance we did.Collection: Skins
You [meaning mothers] said good-bye a little every day -- from the minute they left your body until they left your home.Collection: Mother
anyone who used the word hip probably wasn't.Collection: Hips
Michael Koryta is that rare author who is at once a compelling story teller and a fantastic writer. From the first sentence of THOSE WHO WISH ME DEAD, you'll be under his spell. His characters are living, breathing people you'll care about; his setting is a place you'll visit and stay-long after you've decided to leave because you're scared. You can't leave; you're trapped. There are too many nerve-jangling, beautifully written, razor sharp moments and you won't want to miss a single one. This is an absolute sizzler.Collection: Character
There have been plenty of chances to close my eyes and go back to the sleep of my life as it was, but I hadn't taken any of them. Do I wish now that I had? It's hard to answer that question, as the wraiths move closer.Collection: Moving
We may say we're looking for love, following dreams, chasing the dollar, but aren't we just looking for a place where we belong? A place where our thoughts, feelings, and fears are understood? - Ridley JonesCollection: Dream
Others of us are lost. We're forever seeking. We torture ourselves with philosophies and ache to see the world. We question everything, even our own existence. We ask a lifetime of questions and are never satisfied with the answers because we don't recognize anyone as an authority to give them. We see life and the world as an enormous puzzle that we might never understand, that our questions might go unanswered until the day we die, almost never occurs to us. And when it does, it fills us with dread.Collection: Philosophy
In the end, I cared about him so much that I just thought he deserved someone who loved him more than I did.Collection: Ends
And we stood like that. The joining of hands is highly underrated in the acts of intimacy. You kiss acquaintances or colleagues, casually to say hello or good-bye. You might even kiss a close friend chastely on the lips. You might quickly hug anyone you knew. You might even meet someone at a party, take him home and sleep with him, never to see him or hear from him again. But to join hands and stand holding each other that way, with the electricity of possibilities flowing between you? The tenderness of it, the promise of it, is only something you share with a few people in your life.Collection: Party
I didn’t see the point of judging and analyzing a single moment in someone’s life.Collection: Single Mom
Bored people looked for drama and caused trouble.Collection: Drama
Alafair Burke is one of the finest young crime writers working today.Collection: Today
It's a little known fact, but parents are like superheroes. With just a few magic words they can make you feel ten feet tall and bulletproof, they can slay the dragons of doubt and worry, they can make your problems disappear. But of course they can only do this as long as you're a child. When you've become an adult, become the master of your own universe, they're not as powerful as they once were. Maybe that's why so many of us take our time growing up.Collection: Powerful
Love accepts. Forgiveness comes in time.Collection: Accepting
Denial: my family heritage. If you don't ask the questions, the truth will never inconvenience you.Collection: Heritage
you cannot hope for change in others, you can only work toward it in yourself. And that's hard work.Collection: Change
My uncle Max was a mountain, a shooting star, a big bear of a man, a piggyback ride waiting to happen, his pockets full of candy and, later money, or whatever the particular currency of our ages happened to be. He was rock concerts, baseball games, he was yes when my parents were no, he was a consolation for every disappointment.Collection: Baseball
Chevy Stevens is in top form. ALWAYS WATCHING is a tense and twisty exploration of dark memories, hidden pasts, and a place that seems like heaven but might be hell. This is a deep and exciting novel, as unsettling as it is gripping.Collection: Memories
Even if someone is overcome with rage, it takes amazing arrogance to kill.Collection: Arrogance
I definitely feel that plot flows from character. I dont believe that you can construct a plot and insert people into it.Collection: Believe